Compare for yourself:

• silverlight vs javascript (unchanged original)
• silverlight vs flash (js delegates all logic to flash, silverlight code unchanged)

_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");
    }
}
Stage.addListener(listener);

Also see Exploring full-screen mode in Flash Player 9.

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. Don’t forget that this will have no effect in Flash players older than version 8.5!

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

var outer_mc = this.createEmptyMovieClip("outer_mc", 0);
var inner_mc = outer_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("inner_mc", 0);

// don't rotate the inner_mc
// it will lose its properties when the image is loaded
outer_mc._rotation = 45;
outer_mc._xscale = 120;
outer_mc._yscale = 60;

var mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();

mcl.addListener({
  onLoadInit: function(target:MovieClip){
    // this prevents that awfully jagged look
    target.forceSmoothing = true;
  }
});

mcl.loadClip("image.jpg", inner_mc);

//
// Pong.5k (510 bytes game)
// by Kristof Neirynck
//
// inspired by monoPong-1k and mrdoob
// http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=48976
// http://mrdoob.com/blog/post/485/
//
Stage.align = "TL";
Stage.scaleMode = "noScale";

// making 10 a variable to shave off some bytes
var t:Number = 10;

// speed
var vx:Number = -t;
var vy:Number = t;

// player 1
var p:MovieClip = createEmptyMovieClip("p", 1);

// player 2
var q:MovieClip = createEmptyMovieClip("q", 2);

// ball
var b:MovieClip = createEmptyMovieClip("b", 3);

// drawing the squares
d(p,20,40);
d(q,20,40);
d(b,t,t);

// magic loop
function onEnterFrame() {
  b._x += vx;
  b._y += vy;

  q._x = Stage.width;

  p._y = _ymouse;
  q._y = Stage.height-_ymouse;

  // bounce top or bottom border
  if (b._y<t || b._y>Stage.height-t) {
    vy = -vy;
  }
  // bounce player1 or left border
  // or player 2 or right border  
  if ((b.hitTest(p) && b._x>20) 
  || (b.hitTest(q) && b._x<Stage.width-20)) {
    vx = -vx;
  }
  // someone scored
  if (-t>b._x || b._x>Stage.width+t) {
    b._x = Stage.width*0.5;
    b._y = Stage.height*0.5;
    vx = -vx;
  }
};

// square drawing function
function d(m:MovieClip, w:Number, h:Number):Void {
  //w and h are already / 2
  //w /= 2;
  //h /= 2;
  m.beginFill(0xFFFFFF);
  m.moveTo(-w,-h);
  m.lineTo(w,-h);
  m.lineTo(w,h);
  m.lineTo(-w,h);
  //not needed
  //m.lineTo(-w,-h);
  //m.endFill();
}

function decrypt(numeric:String):String {
  var decrypted:String = "";
  var encrypted:String = "";
  var secret:String = "FILEZILLA1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
  if (numeric.length % 3 == 0) {
    for (var i:Number = 0; i < numeric.length; i += 3) {
      var charCode:Number = parseInt(numeric.substr(i, 3), 10);
      encrypted += String.fromCharCode(charCode);
    }
    for (var i:Number = 0; i < encrypted.length; i++) {
      var secretCharIndex:Number = (encrypted.length + i) % secret.length;
      var numA:Number = encrypted.charCodeAt(i);
      var numB:Number = secret.charCodeAt(secretCharIndex);
      decrypted += String.fromCharCode(numA ^ numB);
    }
  } else {
    decrypted = "ERROR: Length must be multiple of 3.";
  }
  return decrypted;
}

function encrypt(decrypted:String):String {
  var numeric:String = "";
  var encrypted:String = "";
  var secret:String = "FILEZILLA1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
  for (var i:Number = 0; i < decrypted.length; i++) {
    var secretCharIndex:Number = (decrypted.length + i) % secret.length;
    var numA:Number = decrypted.charCodeAt(i);
    var numB:Number = secret.charCodeAt(secretCharIndex);
    var charCode:Number = numA ^ numB;
    encrypted += String.fromCharCode(charCode);
    var paddedcharCode:String = charCode.toString(10);
    while (paddedcharCode.length < 3) {
      paddedcharCode = "0" + paddedcharCode;
    }
    numeric += paddedcharCode;
  }
  return numeric;
}

And a working example:

And Pierre Lepers created an event model for Papervision. Excellent work!

Right-click to view source.

The only downside was that it didn’t look exactly the same. AsWing has an excellent pluggable look and feel system. You can even change it at runtime!

So I proceeded to create a Flex 2 Lookalike.

To trace to a file in linux you’ll need the debug player. Copy flashplayer.xpt and libflashplayer.so to ~/.mozilla/plugins. If you use the standalone player, use the debug one. Place your mm.cfg in your home directory. Your flashlog.txt will spawn in the ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/Logs directory. There is no need to create this directory, flash handles this for you.

Reference: Chris Hill’s blogpost.

To use this feature I uninstalled the flash player and installed the flash debug player.

Then I wrote a batch file to create the required mm.cfg file for me.

@echo off
set mmcfgfile="%HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\mm.cfg"
set logfile="%APPDATA%\Macromedia\Flash Player\Logs\flashlog.txt"
echo ErrorReportingEnable=1        >  %mmcfgfile%
echo TraceOutputFileEnable=1       >> %mmcfgfile%
echo MaxWarnings=0                 >> %mmcfgfile%
echo TraceOutputFileName=%logfile% >> %mmcfgfile%
echo Done.

After which I manually set the flashLog path in SOS to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash Player\Logs\flashLog.txt. It doesn’t support the %APPDATA% environment variable.

Also see Trace from the browser, using standard trace() by Mark Walters.

Also see AS3 hidden treasure in the mm.cfg file. Revealing and documenting many Flash secrets! by Jean-Philippe Auclair.