Making auto-repeat Button controls using the autoRepeat property and buttonDown event

By On August 8, 2007 · 2 Comments

A simple example of creating auto-repeat Button controls that dispatch the buttonDown event as long as the user is pressing the button.

 

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Checking the user’s Flash Player capabilities using the flash.system.Capabilities class

By On August 8, 2007 · 3 Comments

There are a lot of times when you may want to know what version of the Flash Player plug-in your visitors are using. Or perhaps you want to know their screen resolution, operating system, language, whether they have accessibility or an IME. Finding all this out is simple thanks to the Flash Player’s flash.system.Capabilities class.

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Positioning a label within a progress bar using the ProgressBar.labelPlacement property

By On August 8, 2007 · 2 Comments

We’ve looked at this briefly in a previous entry, but here’s a quick look at each of the five options for the ProgressBar.labelPlacement property.

Full code after the jump.

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Positioning an icon within a button using the Button.labelPlacement property

By On August 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Probably not too surprising to anybody, but you can easily control the location of an icon within a Button control by setting the button’s labelPlacement property.

Full code after the jump.

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