Monthly Archives: February 2008

Silver Explorer

Posted on 2008-02-27 by crydust

As most of my friends know, I’m partially colorblind. Most webdevelopers have no idea what their site looks like for someone like me. Thanks to the power of Adobe Air I’m now capable of letting you experience it firsthand. Silver … Continue reading →

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full-screen mode in Actionscript 2

Posted on 2008-02-19 by crydust

How to use full-screen mode in Actionscript 2: _root.btn_mc.onRelease = function(){ if(Stage["displayState"] == "normal"){ Stage["displayState"] = "fullScreen"; }else{ Stage["displayState"] = "normal"; } } var listener:Object = {}; listener.onFullScreen = function(isFullscreen:Boolean){ if(isFullscreen){ trace("entered full-screen mode"); }else{ trace("exited full-screen mode"); } } … Continue reading →

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forceSmoothing

Posted on 2008-02-15 by crydust

Rotating and scaling pictures in flash is easy. Just use _rotation, _xscale and _yscale. Except when you publish an swf for Flash Player 8 or newer. Every image you rotate or scale will become jagged. Very anoying. Tinic Uro even wrote a loadBitmapSmoothed function that uses BitmapData.

When Flash Player 8.5 came out it introduced the forceSmoothing property. This property is also available in as2. Now all we need to do is set it to true when we load images.

I works quite well. In the example below you can clearly see the left picture is more jagged than the right one.

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