Recently I was writing an application for Flex which I wanted to know about client-machine’s capabilities in order to provide optimal experience on my application. After searching around, I found the Capabilities API in Action script 3. This became extremely helpful as I can know figure out a things on my client machine to make [...]

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Previously, in ActionScript 2.0, you could pass variables along the query string or using FlashVars and the variables would be available in _level0, in ActionScript 3.0, it is a bit different . In Actionscript 3 variables that are passed in through query string have been moved to the parameters property of LoaderInfo instance. Here’s a [...]

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Recently I was working on a flash project that was using Actionscript 2 and it was such a pain trying to use loadClip() and pass in the necessary variables through query string for loading the external swf into a movieclip. I figure I’ll post this here and hopefully someone who is trying to do [...]

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