Monthly Archives: November 2007

Your Mom is null throws Exception OT OT OT … or Learning Exception Handling in ActionScript

After coding AS3 for about 2 years now, I’ve come to 1 conclusion: I’m sick and tired of testing for null. It seems to be the most common if then statement I write in all of my code. I’ve been … Continue reading

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Flash & Flex Integration Gotcha: Automatically Declare Stage Instances

I’ve gotten a lot of emails asking about some of my older Flash & Flex integration examples not working. Hopefully this article will describe the same error everyone is getting. ActionScript 3 is strict. However, Flash CS3 helps Flash developers … Continue reading

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