With the release of Yahoo! Maps for ActionScript 3 it is now possible to use the maps API for your Flash and Flex applications. The component provides very handy classes for geocoding content, creating map overlays and using an advanced search. more »

The FlextypeTester is a small Flex based tool for comparing different type settings. You can set some common paramters for a sample text. These settings are applied automatically and allow a direct comparison of different settings. more »

The onEnterFrame event is one of the most important methods used in Flash for scripted animation. What makes it a littel inflexible is that it is bound solely to the MovieClip object what makes is somehow combersome when needed for one\’s own classes. Extending the MovieClip class is not a good solution and should be avoided in general as the inheritance structure limits the architectural options. more »

ActionScript only provides some basic but powerful methods for string handling. By combining them you can create almost every functionality you need when working with character based data. Sprintf is a class that offers string formatting as known from other programming languages like Perl or C. more »

The Lorenz Attractor, first introduced by Edward Lorenz in 1963, is a 3-dimensional structure corresponding to the long-term behavior of a chaotic flow. The result is a remarkable figure, a butterfly shape. more »

One of the goals of object-oriented design is to distribute behavior among different objects which encourages reuse. But with larger software the interactions between these objects become more and more complex and we have a situation where each object knows each other. This might end up in a huge monolithic application where the change of one behavior affects a large number of objects which must be adapted too. So the target reuse is reduced by the growth of references. more »