This Week in ActionScript Examples (1/6)

Here is what I have been blogging about over the past few weeks on my new Flash/ActionScript examples blog, actionscriptexamples.com:

• Dynamically creating a DataGrid instance in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Specifying a data grid’s contents using a data provider in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Resizing a DataGrid instance in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Creating a horizontally scrolling DataGrid in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Opening URLs in new browser windows using ActionScript 3.0 and ActionScript 2.0
• Manually setting values on a ProgressBar control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Creating an indeterminate ProgressBar control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Using the Flex SDK’s ObjectUtil class in your Flash CS4 documents
• Dynamically loading images using the UILoader component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Determining when a UILoader component has completed loading in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Detecting whether content successfully loaded in a UILoader component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Dynamically creating new FLVPlayback control instance in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Determining whether a UILoader component auto loads content in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Determining when a UILoader component resizes in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Setting the skin background color on an FLVPlayback control skin in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Dynamically resizing images using the UILoader component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Determining when a video’s metadata is received on an FLVPlayback control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Automatically hiding the skin on an FLVPlayback control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Setting the skin background alpha on an FLVPlayback control skin in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Embedding fonts from a Flex application into a Flash SWF file
• Setting the volume on an FLVPlayback component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Restricting which characters a user can type into a TextInput component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Restricting the number of characters a user can type into a TextInput component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Creating a masked password TextInput control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Setting a custom text format on a TextInput control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Using an embedded font with the TextInput control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Creating an uneditable TextInput control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Disabling a TextInput component in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Changing the data provider on the ColorPicker control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Setting the number of columns on a ColorPicker control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Creating a vertical Slider control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Toggling the text field on the ColorPicker control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Getting the currently selected color as a hexadecimal value on a ColorPicker control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0
• Detecting when the user changes the color in a ColorPicker control in Flash using ActionScript 3.0