actionscript

In a FLEX app, I am trying to "re-dispatch" a custom event. I.e. component1 does dispatchEvnet(event), component2 registers a handler for the event, the only function of the handler being, again, dispatch(event). Finally, component3 listens for the event coming out of component2. What I am trying to do is similar to the concept of "re-throwing" exceptions (and for similar reasons). The difference is that re-dispatching does not seem to work in AS3 (Flash 10). In IE, nothing happens, and in FF3 there is an exception saying that the type cast failed while trying to coerce the Event type to my

I let user enter some code in my Flex3 (Flash 10) app and I want to do syntax highlighting. Is there any open-source library that would help me? I'll need a Lua syntax support, but I can add it myself if library has a resonable interface to do this. Swaroop C H Update on 21 Jan, 2009: Check out Anirudh's port of google-code-prettify to ActionScript3 , it has a very good example app as well. I guess this wasn't even feasible till now. With the new Flash Text Engine , maybe such text-based features will start showing up, and hopefully open source libraries that work like the FlashEff library. I

I need a way to calculate lighter hex color(s) based on a provided one. I realize I could use a color transform, but I need the actual value in order to generate a gradient. Here's some stuff pulled out of my Color utils. Sounds like makeGradient might be useful to you. /** * Return a gradient given a color. * * @param color Base color of the gradient. * @param intensity Amount to shift secondary color. * @return An array with a length of two colors. */ public static function makeGradient(color:uint, intensity:int = 20):Array { var c:Object = hexToRGB(color); for (var key:String in c) { c[key]

I'm currently looking into developing Facebook applications and was planning on using Flash as the basis of my application, I have test built some simple PHP Facebook applications and I know enough about action-script 3 to start me on my way, but the API for Facebook development in AS looks far more tedious than the PHP one. my question is would I be able to create interactive graphics (games) like we see across the web in the HTML5 canvas class? and which would be simpler? HTML5 doesn't truly exist yet outside of the basic support in the various browsers. We're a couple of years off from true

I'd really like to be able to make Flash's array access syntax 'wrap' over the array's bounds. Lengthy explanation - var array:Array = ['a','b','c','d','e','f']; To keep things simple, the first index is 0, and its value is the first letter, 'a'. To get that value, we'd do this - array[0]; // returns 'a' As long as the index you're using to access the array is between 0 and array.length (6 in our example,) everything works fine - but if you use an index outside of those bounds, you're shut down. array[-3]; array[9]; // both return 'undefined' Sometimes that's a good thing - sometimes you

I have a GUI using Flex. I have a condition like i need to execute some command line arguments in the local machine and get the results back or output back to a textbox area. How can i do a button on submit, execute command in the local machine and return the output? Command to execute example: echo logfile.log | grep username Code: button1.onRelease = function () { // in this computer, it will now run a command, please wait. } My reference from the answer: https://gist.github.com/993905 You're not going to be able to do this using actionscript 2 and you're not going to be able to do this