Today I stumbled upon the following problem while parsing an xml: I tried to parse an attribute of an XML node which contained ‘\n’-characters and tried to put this parsed text into a dynamic text field on the stage.
Guess what, instead of parsing ‘\n’ to a newline, AS3 showed me the ‘\n’ in my text. This is not as I had hoped.
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If you feel like your built-in iSight Macbook Cam is not working correctly when you are visiting a Flash website or viewing a Flash application, you are pretty much wrong my friend.
Ok, I have to admit, it’s a kind of hidden but you’ll have to change a small option to get it working.
Here’s a little walkthrough:
Did you know that casting a String to a Number using the ‘as’ operator returns 0 instead of the correct number? Use the Number() constructor to cast it correctly. The same applies for ‘int’ and ‘uint’.
From time to time some of us still have to code in oldskool ActionScript 2. A few days ago a colleague asked me for a function for trimming ‘new line’ (\n), ‘carriage return’ (\r) characters, spaces, …
So I ended up searching my archives for a code snippet to archive this functionality and look what I found: