Top Links of the Day – 23rd July 2007

DisplacementMap Filter

http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/blogs/andrew.trice/displacement/main.html

Article explaining the code
http://www.cynergysystems.com/blogs/page/andrewtrice?entry=displacementmapfilter_webcam_tons_o_fun
50 reasons ActionScript 3 KickAss
http://gskinner.com/talks/50reasonsAS3/

FlexRays listed under WORDPRESS – Growing Blogs

Hey guys..

Hurray!!! My blog is listed as one of the GROWING BLOGS of the day by WordPress.com on 12th July 2007.

Check this link out..
http://botd.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/growing-blogs-442/

Search for — “Flex, ActionScript and Related Stuffs”

Thanks Everyone for making my blog a growing blog !!

Free Stuffs from Adobe – Revised ActionScript Developer Center

I am posting another link, which will help you get lots more free stuffs from Adobe. Thanks to Duane, as I have picked this from his blog.

Please find the link as below

http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2007/07/totally-free-stuff-from-adobe-developer.html

Two of the files which I found very important with regards to ActionScript are as follows.
Revised ActionScript Developer Center (May 29)
AVM bytecode overview (PDF, 401K) (May 29)

Happy learning..

Photos: Roundtable discussion with Duane Nickull

I am not sure if you have read the earlier post of mine – Roundtable discussion with Duane Nickull - Finally Prayank sent me those pictures .

 

Programming ActionScript 3.0 book download

I am posting a Programming ActionScript 3.0 book in a pdf format. I got hold of this from Adobe website. I hope this book will be useful to you.

Download directly from the Adobe website

Whoever downloads it, please leave your name so that I will know how many people downloaded this file from my blog. Thanks to http://www.printfu.org/?mcACtion=search.pdf&keyword=actionscript

You can all find more pdf files in the above mentioned link for your reference

I want to thank Adobe for making this file available to all of us. I am just making the file available so that people can get more sources from the internet to download this file. Thanks to Adobe.

Type Selectors, Class Selectors and Global Selectors

Type Selector

If the selector parameter does not start with a period, the returned CSSStyleDeclaration is a type selector and applies to all instances of that type. For example, the type selector “Button” applies to all instances of Button and its subclasses

Examples of type selector

Button

{
color: #FFFFFF
cornerRadius: 10;
}

The above style applied is reflected in all the instances of the Button

Important things to note about type selector

When you set a new CSSStyleDeclaration on a type selector, you are replacing the entire existing type selector with your own selector. All style properties that you do not explicitly define in the new CSSStyleDeclaration are set to null. This can remove skins, margins, and other properties that are defined in the defaults.css file or other style sheet that you may have applied already.

Class Selector

If the selector parameter starts with a period (.), the returned CSSStyleDeclaration is a class selector and applies only to those instances whose styleName property specifies that selector (not including the period). For example, the class selector “.bigMargins” applies to any UIComponent whose styleName is “bigMargins”.

Example of a Class selector
.myButtonStyle {
color: red;
cornerRadius: 10;
}

Important things to note about type selector

You can use a class selector to apply the new CSSStyleDeclaration object. Because a class selector’s style properties do not replace existing type selector properties, the components maintain their default settings

Global Selector

The global selector is similar to a type selector and does not start with a period
Global style applies to all controls.
StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration(“global”).
setStyle(“fontStyle”,”italic”);