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Building a Better Bitmap Button in AS3

Building a Better Bitmap Button in AS3

Jason Killian on Jan 17th 2012 with 5 comments

Building a button from a bitmap can be bothersome. If you’re using the Flash IDE, you can create a mask to determine which pixels are part of the button and which aren’t, but in any other workflow, the entire rectangle containing the bitmap – including any transparent pixels – will be clickable. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to automatically make all transparent pixels unclickable, with just a few lines of code.

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Create a QR Code Generator in Flash Using AS3

Create a QR Code Generator in Flash Using AS3

Carlos Yanez on Nov 8th 2011 with 17 comments

QR codes are everywhere these days: magazine advertisements, billboards, even TV commercials. Chances are you have a phone in your pocket that can read a QR code and decode the URL or message contained within. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a SWF that can reverse the process: create a QR code from a URL or message. Read on!

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Create a Flexible XMPP Chat for a Member-Based Website With Flash and PHP

Create a Flexible XMPP Chat for a Member-Based Website With Flash and PHP

Jaron Franklin Fort on Oct 13th 2011 with 5 comments

We’ll be looking at how to create a XMPP chat application that can be used in many different scenarios. You’ll learn how to integrate an external database with Ignite Realtime’s Openfire Jabber Server and how to use the XIFF library to create custom XMPP extensions that can be used to send custom data across a network.

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