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In the last post, I showed one method of using XML in Flash. In the comments, a couple of people pointed out that there was a newer, easier way of doing it. So here’s an updated version of the same file, using E4X. So here’s the flash file again- [kml_flashembed fversion="9.0.0" movie="flash-content/lastXML/lastXML.swf" targetclass="flashmovie" publishmethod="static" width="400" [...]

In today’s AS3 basics lesson, I’m focusing on XML. I’ll show you how to access an XML feed and parse out the data for use in your flash apps. For this example, I’m going to use the brilliant last.fm api – and display the last 10 songs I listened to. For this, I’ll be using [...]

Hello again. It’s time for another AS3 basics write up – today I’m doing Links. Whilst the AS3 code is slightly longer than AS2′s getURL(); it’s still not bad. ?View Code ACTIONSCRIPT3//Define the location of the link var url:String = "http://www.lawriecape.co.uk"; //Create a new URL request – var request:URLRequest = new URLRequest(url); //You can then [...]