I’ve finally nailed down a good way to use a preloader with Flash Player 7 movies that use the v2 component framework. Continue reading →

Some design patterns require the use of a static initializer, a block of code that should execute once and only once the first time a class is referred to. The typical use for this pattern in ActionScript programming is when … Continue reading →

ActionScript 2.0 is much more object oriented and Java-like than its predecessor, which makes it easy to learn for Java programmers. Here are some key differences, which may help make the transition easier. Continue reading →

The v2 component architecture introduced a new event dispatching and handling framework, in which event objects are produced by components and consumed by whatever listeners are attached to them. For more information on this, refer to the Flash documentation under … Continue reading →

I discovered two useful undocumented properties of the event object emitted by the Loader class. Continue reading →