Prerequisites: This part of our tutorial assumes you already have a fairly good understanding on AS3 classes and packages. If you don’t, please consider reading the Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming tutorial by Dru Kepple – start learning, then come back here to learn more :) You’re gonna write some ActionScript code, so you’ll need a good ActionScript editor that preferably supports syntax highlighting, such as TextMate for Macs, or FlashDevelop for Windows, although the Flash [...]

As promised in the first part of my “ActionScript 3.0 Basics – Custom Events” tutorial, let’s now put our knowledge to good work and start creating our first AS3 custom event class! Prerequisites: This part of our tutorial assumes you already have a fairly good understanding on AS3 classes and packages. If you don’t, please consider reading the Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming tutorial by Dru Kepple – start learning, then come back here to learn [...]

Disclaimer: This is by no means a complete reference guide to creating ActionScript 3.0 Custom Events, it’s rather a 3-part tutorial intended to help you get started with building your own custom AS3 events. The tutorial is structured as follows: 1st Part: A Quick Reminder About The ActionScript 3 Event Model 2nd Part: Getting Our Hands Code-Dirty – a.k.a. Building Our First ActionScript 3 Custom Event 3rd Part: Wrapping It All Up – or – [...]