This is a function I wrote way back to make large numbers look nicer.

private function separateByThousand(valueNumber : Number, splitter : String = " ") : String {     var valueString : String = "";     var valueLength : Number = valueNumber.toString().length;       for (var i : int = 0; [...]

I have tested a new console for Flash called Flash-console v2.52 (created by Lu Aye Oo). This is by far the best console/monitor tool I’ve tried. With a few lines, you are up and running and have control over the FPS, memory, trace, channels, and more. You can open the command [...]

We had a problem in a recent game project getting SharedObject to store the players progress. When we tested it in Flash Builder it worked fine but as soon as we uploaded the game to our server (or any server) the data were not saved. We found out that to avoid name conflicts, Flash looks [...]

When you are working on an Actionscript project with a generated swf in Flex/Flash Builder you sometimes need to pass the work to someone else for review. If your swf is loading another swf you will not be able to get the files to work correctly. As soon as you copy the files to a [...]

It is hard to remember the whole ASCII key list when listening to keyboard events in Flash Actionscript. I usually use the Keyboard Class (flash.ui.Keyboard) when tracking keyboard inputs but it does not contain all the keys you may want to use. Instead of googling tables with Keyboard keycodes I made [...]