Also, shouts out to P.L.B with Stock Expert for letting me use her profile in the design!

Passing a variable to a function in ActionScript 2 was a fairly simple task. However, it is not so easy using ActionScript 3. There are a few more things you must do first.

In ActionScript 2, passing a string variable looked like this.

my_btn.onRelease = function(){
doThis(”whatever variable you want goes here”);
}

function doThis(a:String){
trace(a);
}

In ActionScript 3, this is what I need to do to get the same results.  I initially wrote the example below thinking at some point, I will have several buttons that the user will interact with such as a navigation menu.

var b:Array = [b1_btn, b2_btn, b3_btn];
var a:Array = ["zero","one","two"];

for (var i:int = 0; i<b.length; i++) {

b[i].addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickedOne);
function clickedOne(e:MouseEvent):void {
for (var j:int = 0; j<a.length; j++) {
if (e.currentTarget.name == b[j].name) {
doThis(a[j])
}
}
}
}

function doThis(v:String):void {
trace(v);
}

Get the source fla file here.

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It was November 4th 2008 and I was sitting on my couch talking with my family and chatting with friends on twitter when CNN announced that Barak Obama has won more than the 270 electoral votes needed to secure the presidency.  My phone rang seconds later and continued to ring from a flood of calls I received from friends and family. When the phone didn’t ring, my text alert sounded.  People are partying tonight like it’s new years.

Well I guess things change with age. In the past I have been very successful with slowing down and meditating to ease the pain. After about an hour of this I’d be fine. My serotonin levels would be back to normal and back to life. This time around, I noticed that I was feeling slightly nauseous. Nothing severe but not the norm. And no matter how long I tried to focus elsewhere, the pain would break my concentration. So I headed to the doctor Monday morning. After going through the usual routine of FAQ’s and the collection of vitals, I was sent on my merry way with pain meds and a referral to go see a Neurologist just to see if everything is ok.

Needless to say, at times during the day, it’s been a bit hard to focus but I’m pushing through. The painkillers are a big help. I find it funny that they are supposed to make me sleepy and I have yet to feel the effects of being drowsy. I guess that’s a good thing. I’m still able to work on projects and all the other fun stuff I like to do.

I have been reading articles and getting some good tid-bits of information about how they work over there at Adobe.  As of right now, I am getting more from the sites “Blog Feed” section. I’m sure I’ll get to the rest of the site later today.

It’s a very inspiring (no pun intended) piece of work. It makes me want to open up my copy of Flex and get going but I need to stay focused on Flash and AS3 at this moment in my life.  But rest assured, Flex is next on my list!!!

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Things have been crazy busy!!!  We launched the Outfit Guide and  I’m finishing up a website for a Finishing company in Houston. The site is all flash with custom sounds.  I am looking to have it completed and ready to go live by the weekend.  I also started working on a new design for homergaines.com. I don’t want to give the concept away just yet because I am going to buy the domain that compliments the theme.

Studio Work

For those of you who have an iPod Touch or a iPhone and you write music, download BeatMaker from Intua. This little app, as small as it is, is like having an MPC in the palm of your hand.

On my way out to Vegas a couple of weeks ago, I used BeatMaker to write music on the long flight.  I put together a couple of tracks this weekend too. For the most part, they were experimental but the sound kits that I built are good for production work.

AS2

Method Description

Tween.continueTo()
Instructs the tweened animation to continue from its current value to a new value.

Tween.fforward()
Forwards the tweened animation directly to the end of the animation.

Tween.nextFrame()
Forwards the tweened animation to the next frame.

Tween.prevFrame()
Directs the tweened animation to the frame previous to the current frame.

Tween.resume()
Resumes a tweened animation from its stopped point in the animation.

Tween.rewind()
Rewinds a tweened animation to the beginning of the tweened animation.

Tween.start()
Starts the tweened animation from the beginning.

Tween.stop()
Stops the tweened animation at its current position.

Tween.toString()
Returns the class name, “[Tween]“.

Tween.yoyo()
Instructs the tweened animation to play in reverse from its last direction of tweened property increments.

Event Description

Tween.onMotionChanged
Event handler; invoked with each change in the tweened object’s property that is being animated.

Tween.onMotionFinished
Event handler; invoked when the Tween object finishes its animation.

Tween.onMotionResumed
Event handler; invoked when the Tween.resume() method is called, causing the tweened animation to resume.

Tween.onMotionStarted
Event handler; invoked when the Tween.start() method is called, causing the tweened animation to start.

Tween.onMotionStopped
Event handler; invoked when the Tween.stop() method is called, causing the tweened animation to stop.

AS3

Method Description

Tween(obj:Object, prop:String, func:Function, begin:Number, finish:Number, duration:Number, useSeconds:Boolean = false)
Creates an instance of the Tween class.

continueTo(finish:Number, duration:Number):void
Instructs the tweened animation to continue tweening from its current animation point to a new finish and duration point.

fforward():void
Forwards the tweened animation directly to the final value of the tweened animation.

nextFrame():void
Forwards the tweened animation to the next frame of an animation that was stopped.

prevFrame():void
Plays the previous frame of the tweened animation from the current stopping point of an animation that was stopped.

resume():void
Resumes the play of a tweened animation that has been stopped.

rewind(t:Number = 0):void
Moves the play of a tweened animation back to its starting value.

stop():void
Stops the play of a tweened animation at its current value.

yoyo():void
Instructs the tweened animation to play in reverse from its last direction of tweened property increments.

Event Description

TweenEvent.motionChange
Indicates that the Tween has changed and the screen has been updated.

TweenEvent.motionFinish
Indicates that the Tween has reached the end and finished.

TweenEvent.motionLoop
Indicates that the Tween has restarted playing from the beginning in looping mode.

TweenEvent.motionResume
Indicates that the Tween has resumed playing after being paused.

TweenEvent.motionStart
Indicates that the motion has started playing.

TweenEvent.motionStop
Indicates that the Tween has been stopped with an explicit call to Tween.stop().

I heard back from my twitter friend and I think the she liked the logo ideas but I could be wrong Below was how she responded.

ahhh!!! I love them!!! Especially the sb with the star and the random head thing….omg I love you