Category Archives: Flash

To save bandwidth, most of servers will practice some hotlink protection, usually using either following script to check whether the HTTP referer is come from the same server, most script are focus on image file, but it can slightly modified for FLV protection. There are two common methods to do that: Edit in .htaccess RewriteCond […]

If you use POST method to send parameters, the received result is XML, you should use LoadVars or XML? sendAndLoad from LoadVars cannot handle received XML format, sendAndLoad from XML can use GET method to send parameters only, cannot use POST Method. I have already sticked to write AS3, suddenly switch back to AS1, I […]

Designers always face this problem, inside a MovieClip, there are different symbols, when MovieClip is semi-transparent, each symbol has its own semi-transparent, so the colors are mixed together as the following example: To solve this problem you can set MovieClip BlendMode to Layer ActionScript syntax: mc.blendMode = “layer”;(For Flash 8 AS1/2, too) Download sample fla(Flash […]

When loading XML File and parsing, usually use ChildNode[n].toString() for extract the data, sound like it can get the data and convert to “String” or other variable type. Normally, it has no problem, but when the XML contains special characte, it will get back wrong data, for example special characters like: ‘, &, ". Here […]

Although and, or those ActionScript are deprecated by Adobe, I still love to use it, because it is defaultly support as Keyword in Action panel with color syntax, easy to spot out. Also, the bytecode compiled, it is smaller than &&, ||. You can compare the following two code snippets: if (a and b) { […]