Category Archives: ActionScript3

Tracking mouse leaving the Flash Player (AS3)

[kml_flashembed movie=”http://blog.metah.ch/image/example/mouseTrap.swf” height=”200″ width=”300″ /] Actionscript 3.0 allow us to detect easily when the mouse leave the Flash Player, making it possible to avoid strange behavior of our clip. For example during “drag and drop” it can be useful to know when the mouse leave the stage. To do this you just have to use… Read More »

KeyCode doesn’t work equally on Mac & Win

Something quite frustrating I just notice today, the keyCode aren’t the same on a mac and on a pc… This little code will work correctly on my pc but not on my mac (with ActionScript 3.0): if (e.keyCode == F_KEY && e.ctrlKey == true) {…} Seems that the command + KEY is always reserved to… Read More »

Flash FullScreen Video Player

Since the new version of the Flash Player (at least version 9,0,28,0), we can do Flash without the chrome of the web browser. That mean true fullscreen, not just the Javascript popup. For me it’s one of the most important step in web diffusion, web outside the box 😉 So to test it I quickly… Read More »

ActionScript 3.0 Books are here !

I just discover at O’Reilly that the new book from Colin Moock is out in “Rough Cuts Version”. It’s really time to learn AS3 and even more for people only used to develop using a non object oriented programming language. The publication date for Essential ActionSript 3.0 is in June 2007, but with rough cuts… Read More »

AS3 video tutorial : helloworld

I’ve just opened a new folder for actionscript3 over my server. You can access it directly with the url : as3.metah.ch My first video is about beginning AS3 with Flash 9 Alpha and to create a little helloworld application in AS3. My English is quite terrific and I hope you can still understand what I… Read More »