As I was developing a game I needed something to round an integer to the nearest 5. The following function allows you to round a given integer n to the nearest integer f. It’s a very simple Actionscript function, but I it might come in handy.
public function round(n:int, f:int):int
{
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I just happened across this cool feature in Flex while looking for solutions to other problems. It’s called deep linking. It allows you to return to a specific state of a Flex application by including information in the url. Go here to read more about it: http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Deep_Linking_in_Flex-9563.html
Are you tired of seeing the yellow focus rectangle in your Flex applications? It’s really easy to get rid of it. All you have to do is this: stage.setFocusRect = false; It’s really that easy. See more info about this property here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/flash/display/Stage.html#stageFocusRect
Here is a simple recursive binary search function written in AS3. This is a quick and efficient way to search an array. In the worst case, binary search will take log2(n) steps to finish the search where n is the length of the array. Of course this algorithm only works if the array has been sorted. It [...]