Category: Actionscript 2

  • Quick Tip: Embeding european special characters…

    To save you embeding characters you don’t need and wasting file size on a project that might use european characters, heres a list of characters you can just manually include. This covers French, German, Italian,  Portugese, and Spanish. ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÑÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛßàáâã äåæçèéêëìíîïñòóôõöùúûüŒœ¿

  • Using the youtube player as a radio station

    In the previous post i created an example of loading the Youtube player into your application, as2 or as3. To do this i had created a wrapper class component to make it simple to just drag and drop the component into your as2 application. With this you can start using Youtube videos, and controlling playback.…

  • Loading Youtube player into AS3

    Here’s some demo code of how to get youtube into AS3. Simply put, you load the youtube player into an as2 wrapper swf, then load that swf into your as3 file. A bit of LocalConnection communication between the two and you’re good to go. There’s already a few examples around the internet, but they seem…

  • Using Google Spreadsheet forms with Flash

    Overview Google Spreadsheet forms are an ideal way to collect information from users, like messages, comments or feedback. You don’t need to do any work on your part to store it, no databases, files or anything like that. It relies only on the fact that you have a google account, and can put together a…