Optimizing your code is very important, we can gain performance increase with very little costs, but we have to remember that the most important think for a Developer is to easily understand his code. Bellow I post some techniques to improve the performance of your AS3 code, remember if some of those shortcuts are not easily readable for you maybe it’s not the time to use them. For example I wont use the strange (for [...]

Learning ActionScript 3.0 a Beginner’s Guide was written by Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser, those names speaks for themselves. This book contains everything a flash designer or beginner flash developer will have to learn to easily create full ActionScript 3.0 projects. This will sound silly but for me the best part of this book was the full color print. I loved it, it was like reading a book about graphic design. I would buy it [...]

Yesterday I had to quickly made a documentation for one of my projects, there are few tools that helped me in this metter. As it turns out creating class documentation for your AS3 project is really easy. Thanks to my Twitter followers I quickly found out that there are few apps that create such a documentation for you, all you have to do is choose a input and output folder :) ASDocr First tool was [...]

Today we have a guest blogger in the house, his name is Tsafi, he agreed to contribute a tutorial for us so here it is… This is Complex Button class pure AS3 with a rounded corner, gradient fill, Tween color and Auto text size adjust. First you need to ask your self why do I want to make custom button base on Action Script? Well a few reasons: 1. You can reuse the class and [...]