Flash

To that end, Macromedia has enhanced Flash's event-driven language, ActionScript, making it easy to write application code that can respond to user interaction and thus act as "GUI glue"—the thing that holds your interface together and driv...

Every time I go to a Flash conference, I learn something. Usually, it is something like how to use Flash MX 2004 components or the FlashCom server. Occasionally though, I learn a trick or hack that seems innocuous but really changes the way I ...

Although Windows mice have two or more buttons, Flash detects mouse click events for the primary button only (usually the left mouse button, although the reader can change this in the Windows Mouse control panel). Class of 800 Ther...

components package). A Flash button has three states—up, over, and down—plus a hit area. Flash displays the up state when the mouse is not over the button, the over state when the mouse cursor rolls over the button, and the down state when th...

The v2 components offer several enhancements over the v1 components, including support for depth management, keyboard focus management, and accessibility. The v2 components are completely rewritten to work in ActionScript 2.0 (including stric...