I finally have the chance to work on a real-world Actionscript 3 project (yeah, its been a long time coming). I realise that this post may be old news (and really pointless) to a lot of you, but I decided to write about things that weren't immediately obvious to me while learning AS3.

I was just wondering if anyone could give me a good reason why trace( (0 || 23) ); would trace '23' instead of 'true' in AS2. Bonus points for answers that contain mythical code-gnomes.

Just a little preview of the components I've been working on in my spare time.

Building on my previous movie.. but this one has.. pixels combined with a more complicated DisplacementMapFilter.

Movie and source (now with comments!) after the jump. (Flash player 8.5 beta 2 requred to see the movie)

Nothing super-special.. just a couple of utility methods I use for modifying colour values. The function names give clues to what they do Source code after the jump..

Was just browsing the AS3 specification, and thought this new feature was pretty interesting. Namespace example, copied below.

After almost a year of using PrimalScript for my Actionscript coding, I finally made the switch to FlashDevelop after the latest beta release. It has everything I ever wanted in a script editor and even stuff that I didn't know I wanted until now.

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Heres a sneak peek of the button from my upcoming (eventually) Razor component set. It needs flash 8 (for now, I have flash 7 versions planned). Try clicking it a few times.. neat huh?

Update: (See comments) I completely forgot that subclasses call the superclass constructor by default. Don't I feel dumb right now. But I'll leave this post here as an exercise in pointlessly using __resolve to decorate classes on-demand. Consider this strange example. I have a class, called Widget. This class contains core code for handling all [...]