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Convert a String to a Class reference with AS3

Hey all just a quickie. I’ve been building a game save backup program recently and i’ve come across several instances where i need to get a list of all the files within a directory.

so i wrote a class which does this

Hi There, So many of us use loops for a vast array of things, sometimes though you’ll want to stop a loop from executing further.
So the answer to the problem? the ‘break’ statement!

Sometimes you have a custom ItemRenderer. That has, perhaps, a button that needs to access one of the methods of you’re main application. how would you accomplish this? read on…

Hey all, Just encountered a bit of a strange bug in my flex app.

In this tutorial I’ll teach you how to write condensed if statements. and some other methods of doing comparisons.

Some of you may be familiar with rapid prototyping. It is a concept i learnt from the Experimental gameplay project, specifically this article by Kyle Gabler, Kyle Gray (2D Boy, World of Goo), Matt Kucic, Shalin Shodhan.

Hey Wuup readers. After going through all my older AS3 Basics articles, I found that most of them didn’t really go over the core elements. So in order to rectify the problem, I’ve decided that it’s time to flesh out this area a little. I’m by no means an expert on the language – unless [...]

So i’ve been writing some CD launchers recently with some handy tools on. One thing i had major trouble with was getting a Projector .exe to run programs from sub directorys. Luckily i figured it out so heres how… First in your CD/DVD root directory place a folder named “fscommand” this is the only folder [...]

Hey everyone. This week, I’m bringing you some handy regular expression snippets I use quite frequently. If you are unfamiliar with regular expressions, think of them as a different language that you use within ActionScript. I’m not going to go into detail about Regular Expressions, there’s far better documentation on the Adobe LiveDocs here for [...]