I needed a quick and easy way to check for the basics of an email address. Does it contain “@” and “.” symbols. This is by no meals a foolproof method, so don’t use it for anything big, but if you want to just do a quick test then here you go: var email:String = [...]

This is an example of how to create a random number in Classic ASP in order to append to a swf file so that the browser does not cache the swf file. <% Dim SwfRndNum Randomize SwfRndNum = Rnd %> You can then add it to your swf embed code as follow, bear in mind [...]

Error 1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: Event. You need to import the Event class! import flash.events.Event

I needed to work out a date range according to the date 3weeks away from the current date. After a bit of thinking, I found that it’s actually quite easy to achieve. var theDate:Date = new Date(); dateDay = theDate.getDate(); dateMonth = theDate.getMonth(); dateYear = theDate.getFullYear(); var theDate2:Date = new Date(dateYear,dateMonth,dateDay); theDate2.setDate(theDate2.getDate() + 21); dateDay2 [...]

I have been working on a project where I need to select a date range starting today and ending a month from now, so the user cannot select anything in the past or over a month from now. This is how I did it: There is an instance of DateChooser on the stage with Instance [...]

If you use a dynamic textbox in Flash and you want to embed the British Pound symbol (£) then you will want to also embed the “Latin I” glyphs with your textfield.

In a flash movie I usually have a frame of actionscript that controls all elements in the file to keep everything in one place. Sometimes I have an onPress(etc)  function that refers to something happening in the scene when something is pressed, but what happens if we want another element to refer to that event [...]

You have a flash uploader and you get this error: security error: securitySandboxError This means that the flash is not trusted by the domain and you have to place an xml file in the root of the domain. The file is called “crossdomain.xml” and this is what should be inside it: <?xml version=”1.0″?> <cross-domain-policy> <allow-access-from [...]

I discovered a very annoying bug in the Flash IDE a little while ago, and it has happened to me quite a few times. Today it happened again and so I write this post.. While in the Flash IDE you select a component on the stage, then you click “Component Inspector”. This opens up into [...]