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I'd like to get a better understanding of how Flash renders display objects, so I have a better idea of how to optimize my games.

I previously created a game that had a scrolling, repeating (and...

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I have 4 years of professional experience in both programming and art/design in Flash. I have worked on a variety of games, including tower defense, aerodynamics engines, side...

I'm loading a font from an external swf based on the swf's and font's names. I've got the font working, and even have font size attributes working.
The problem I'm having is that you can only...

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I was wondering what the best way was to set up an avatar creator.
Basically, each part that I create needs to be able to be colored, and different options selectable (hair styles, etc)
...

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I'm going to be using a lot of different movieclips, and it would be impractical to write init code into each of them, or define all of them as members of a movieclip extension class.
I've...

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quick question, and maybe I'm just misunderstanding what some of BitmapData's functions do

I have two BitmapData objects, bmp1 and bmp2. Each has their own alpha channel.

I'd like to...

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I'm working on a flash game for the blind, and the game is completely audio based
The only problem is that the user has to interact with the game using keystrokes, which won't work until...

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How would I go about finding the area of the intersection between two rectangles that may be rotated relative to each other? The information I have to work with is their coordinates (one...

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I've got two BitmapData objects, each one containing an image of a fingerprint
I'd like to be able to compare the two and get a percentage match. I've found the BitmapData compare function,...

figured it out... forgot to put the class's package url in the Linkage>Class field

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I'm using AS2, and trying to use AS2's packages for the first time, so I can organize my .as files properly.
I'm running into some problems though
I've got some classes that extend...

I've heard this before, but I don't remember why it's considered good practice.

Why is it a good idea to only initialize non-const variables in the constructor?

i.e. this is bad:

class...

I need to make multiple copies of a movieclip that I'm loading in via loadclip. I don't want to have to loadclip each time I need a new copy - is there a better way to do this?

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I have a font that I'd like to use for certain parts of my flash movie. The name of the font that will be used will be fed in through xml. Is there any way to use library fonts to make this...

onLoadInit doesn't fire - does it only work when loading in swfs?

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I'm trying to load in an image using MovieClipLoader. When the onLoadComplete fires, BitmapData copies the image so I can make duplicates
unfortunately, when onLoadComplete fires, the...

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Here's a pretty basic question about how flash works - I'm working with a php/database guy who is passing me unique user information via xml from mysql to php. If, while playing the flash...

another symptom if this helps:
if I define a function testFunction in the class that only has a trace in it, and call that function, it does not trace. but if I call that function after removing it...

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I'm trying to recompile a class I've written in a .as file, and it will not update. I've deleted ASO files, reset the computer, and I'm not sharing the class via a library item.
help?

Yeah its a 404 redirect - he sent me this as the line of code when I asked:

here is the line of code in the htacess file:
ErrorDocument 404 http://.../error_page.php

is there a way to have...

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I'm working closely with someone who is using .htaccess to display a custom error page when a user tries to view a file that does not exist on his domain.

My flash app runs on his page,...

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trying to figure out how to autoscale and autolandscape.
this code seems to work properly for portrait, but for landscape I get a blank page. I've tried offsetX of +/-...

I'm trying to write some code that will take a smooth vector drawing and change it to a digitized, 8bit-looking drawing at runtime.

The best way I can think of to do this (and feel free to suggest...

A while ago I used BitmapData to get color samples of a bitmap and create a pointilism piece by using getPixel to sample colors from the bitmap along a grid

This time I'm trying to do something...

basically I'm trying to import a php file as an xml (the php file creates the xml) into flash
am I going about it the right way?