We’re working on a project where we had to sort the vector in different ways, depending on the user selection.

So we find the sortOn function in AS3, which is perfect. But there’s a problem!

If you want to sort an array of objects, by one of it’s fild which is numeric, the sortOn sorts them as if the numbers are strings.

The solution is to add an additional parameter, like this:

 programArray.sortOn("popularity-score", Array.NUMERIC);

Note you can pass more parameters, for example sort them descending:

 programArray.sortOn("popularity-score", Array.DESCENDING | Array.NUMERIC);

Hope this saves you some time when you need to use it! :)

If you get stuck in a bug where the dynamic text doesn’t show, even if you trace the text string and it displays it right, make sure that you don’t have a mask applied to the textfield using the layers on the timeline.

If you do that, you must embed the font as we showed in our previous post, otherwise the text won’t show. :)

As you probably heard in AS3 to treat the “release_outside” event it’s a little bit tricky.
But AS3 comes with solutions for everything even for “stage_leave” event. In AS2 you couldn’t do that.
Now you can do that by treating the “Event.MOUSE_LEAVE” event.
To do that you need to use event listeners also on stage.

This is how we do it step by step:

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Guys, don’t hold your breath now, but we’re really close to our five thousand active user.

We are really happy we managed to grow this much in little over two months, and we’re hoping to triple the number of active users by the end of the year, by uploading the most diverse and creative Flash Components you can find anywhere on and off the web. The time when you had to pay for a ten minute flash work has gone, those flash components will always be free on Flabell, and built at a quality that really makes the difference – we’re ashamed to build loaders for example and actually sell them. We’ll never do that.

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For our fullscreen flash websites, we usually use SWFFit in order to make sure our content is still visible if you browse from a smaller screen computer. SWFFit is a smart script that resizes your flash movie automatically if your browser window size is smaller or greater than your flash minimum desired size keeping it accessible independent of screen resolution.

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