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Mute / UnMute Sound AS3

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:11:12 +0000

If you need to mute/unmute a sound in a MovieClips timeline (eg. if you have a player that loads external swfs)
Try using SoundMixer and soundTransform like this:

import flash.media.SoundTransform;
import flash.media.SoundMixer;
 
// Mute - sets volume to 0
SoundMixer.soundTransform = new SoundTransform(0);
 
//UnMute - sets volume to 1 (100%)
SoundMixer.soundTransform = new SoundTransform(1);

Of course there are other ways to do it but this was exactly what I needed for my project and it worked just fine.
Feel free to comment other ways to do it.

Cheers!

How to use Static properties and methods to simplify your tasks in Flash

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:18:18 +0000

Do you write your code over and over every time you need to align an image to the stage center of your project? or maybe for some other task? I know I used to before I learned about static properties and methods, of course I had some snippets for that stored somewhere but still this is not the best solution.

This is very useful because it allows you to use properties from a class without having to import it first. Basically all you need to do is put the word static when declaring the properties and methods inside your class.

Utils.as

package
{	
	/**
	 *  Description
	 *    
	 *  @langversion ActionScript 3
	 *  @playerversion Flash 9.0.0
	 *
	 *  @author Pedro Canterini
	 *  @since  11.04.2009
	 */
 
	import flash.display.DisplayObject;
 
	public class Utils
	{
 
		public static var myStr:String = "My tring here...";
 
		/**
		 *   @constructor
		 */
		public function Utils()
		{
			//super();
		}
 
		//---------------------------------------
		// Align to center
		//---------------------------------------
		public static function alignToCenter(obj:DisplayObject):void
		{
			obj.x = obj.stage.stageWidth / 2 - obj.width / 2;
			obj.y = obj.stage.stageHeight / 2 - obj.height / 2;
		}
 
	}
}

How to use it:

Utils.alignToCenter(theDisplayObject);

Notice that you can align any display object to the center of the stage not just images.

AS3 lightBox class

admin — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:09:26 +0000

This is not ready but I would like to share it anyways, for two reasons: I couldn’t find a free class (or didn’t look hard enough) and someone else might be looking for it. And also so people can take a look at my code and point something that could be improved.

I will post the final version once it is ready.

LightBox.as

//AS3///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// 
//  FlashInit.com
// 
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
package
{	
	/**
	 *  LightBox Class
	 *    
	 *  @langversion ActionScript 3
	 *  @playerversion Flash 9.0.0
	 *
	 *  @author Pedro Canterini
	 *  @since  22.04.2009
	 */
 
	import flash.display.Sprite;
	import flash.display.Loader;
	import flash.display.LoaderInfo;
	import flash.display.DisplayObject;
	import flash.events.Event;
	import flash.events.ProgressEvent;
	import flash.net.URLRequest;
 
	public class LightBox extends Sprite
	{
 
		//---------------------------------------
		// PRIVATE VARIABLES
		//---------------------------------------
		private var _imageHolder:Sprite;
		private var _loader:Loader;
 
		/**
		 *   @constructor
		 */
		public function LightBox(url:String)
		{
			trace("lightbox is on! load: ", url);
			var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url);
			_loader = new Loader();
			_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete, false, 0, true);
			_loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, handleProgress, false, 0, true);
			_loader.load(req);
		}
 
		//---------------------------------------
		// PUBLIC METHODS
		//---------------------------------------
		public function alignToCenter(object:DisplayObject):void
		{
			object.x = (object.stage.stageWidth - object.width) / 2;
			object.y = (object.stage.stageHeight - object.height) / 2;
		}
 
		//---------------------------------------
		// PRIVATE METHODS
		//---------------------------------------
		private function handleProgress(event:ProgressEvent):void
		{
			var percent:uint = int((event.bytesLoaded / event.bytesTotal) * 100);
			trace(percent);
		}
 
		private function onComplete(event:Event):void
		{
			_loader.contentLoaderInfo.removeEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
			handleImage();
		}
 
		private function handleImage():void
		{
			/* create holder for the bitmap */
			_imageHolder = new Sprite();
			addChild(_imageHolder);
			_imageHolder.addChild(_loader);
 
			/* align object */
			alignToCenter(_imageHolder);
		}
	}
}

in order to use it just create a new Instance of it:

var lightBox:LightBox = new LightBox("assets/imgs/retratos/img-001.jpg");
addChild(lightBox);

I am working on the background and a loader and I will post as soon as they are done and integrated.

trace(”Hello World!”);

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:36:13 +0000

Hi!

I intent to have this blog as a tool to share my ActionScript 3 experiences, learn something from my erros and hopefully provide and share solutions for others having the same issues that I once had.

Please feel free to say anything and also provide better solutions/improvements for all the code you might find here.

Cheers

-Pedro