With the year 2011 at a close, it is time to reflect upon some of the major industry events of the year. A lot happened… we’ll pick out some of the bits and pieces that will be most interesting to browser app and game developers from the world of industry, web, runtimes, operating systems, mobile, and more!
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It’s rare, but it happens. Sometimes you absolutely need to extend a class, and that class does not already extend EventDispatcher. At the same time, you absolutely need your class to be an EventDispatcher. Because ActionScript 3 does not allow multiple inheritance, how do you reconcile this?
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For this chapter of AS3 101, we will be diving into the mechanics of the Flash event system. If you’ve been following along so far, you’ll have seen events in use, dating all the way back to the first episode of the series. The editor and I felt that it was time to write up something to be formally included in the curriculum, so if you’ve ever seen those lines of code about adding event listeners or dispatching events, and not quite caught on, then this is the tutorial for you.
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Ready for another quiz? This month, it’s one for the Flash developers among you. Let’s see how well you know your Events…
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For the digital creators among us, there are a couple of FITC sponsored events on the near horizon that we thought you’d like to hear about. Also, for those thinking of attending, we thought a bit of a discount would serve as a little icing on the cake.
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In this screencast we’ll go over all you need to know about AS3 Signals — a light-weight strongly-typed alternative to the native Flash event system. Prepare to see events in a whole new way!
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This week in the world of RIAs; we’re looking at some examples of Adobe AIR for iOS, discussing Connect Mobile for Android and taking a peek at the awesome 360|Flex developer conference…
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