One of the problems many flash developers face is creating a preloader that works correctly. If your like me, my first attempt resulted in asking the question, “Why does my preloader first appear on stage beginning at around 70% complete …
Month: January 2012
Adobe Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – How to pause your flash game
Let’s say you are playing a game that is keeping score. You are doing very well and you are close to beating someone else’s high score. All of sudden, you become distracted. The house is on fire! You want to …
Adobe Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – Setting Tab Index and showing Tab Order
When you first drag controls onto the stage, the tab index is not set that you can see them in the IDE, but the tab order is set nevertheless in the order that the controls were placed onto to the
… Adobe Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – How to delete a scene
Inserting a scene and deleting a scene are not available in the same place. In other words, to add a scene, on the menu bar, click Insert, then click Scene. The stage tab name changes from Scene 1 to Scene …
Adobe Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – How to find a control that has gone off the radar screen
I have no idea how it happened, but one day I tried compiling my Flash program and it was producing an error on a control I did not even see on the stage or the pasteboard. It was a control …
Adobe Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – Classic TextField vs. TLFTextField for password usage
The following demonstrates how to use the Classic TextField and the TLFTextField for the purposes of creating a password behavior type text.
Classic Text
Drag a Text Tool to the stage and call the Instance Name, txtPassword
Choose ‘Classic Text’ …
Adobe Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – Global Security Settings
You want to test your flash application from within the IDE. You press CTRL-Enter and all is well. You now want to test in DEBUG mode, so you press CTRL-Shift-Enter, and as soon as your application tries to access the …
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 – Setting Initial Focus on Silverlight Control (Textbox)
(The initial discussion was for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1)
Step #1
Create a dummy textbox for your initial SL XAML and set the following properties as follows:
Opacity="0" IsReadOnly="True" TabIndex="0"
Step #2
In the ‘loaded’ event of your initial SL …
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 – InvalidOperationException occurred
Private WithEvents mylogonService As NewsrLogon.IwcfLogonServiceClient
Error:
Could not find default endpoint element that references contract
‘SilverlightApplication.srLogon.IwcfLogonService’ in the ServiceModel
client configuration section. This might be because no configuration file was
found for your application, or because no endpoint element matching …
Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 Beta 2 – How to navigate between xaml pages
Add the following to the app.xaml.vb:
Dim mainUI As Grid = New Grid()
In Private Sub Application_Startup
Me.RootVisual = mainUI
Add sub:
Public Sub GoToPage(ByVal nextPg As UserControl)
Dim app As App = CType(Application.Current, App)
' Remove the displayed page
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