LECTURER - DIPLOMA IN INTERACTIVE MEDIA DESIGN
Job Code: Lecturer/DES
A recognized degree in design, interactive media, graphics or interaction design with at least 3 years of industry and/or teach…

Specifically looking for people in:
Application Design & Development Specialisation
Knowledge in the following areas: Interaction design; Interactive Authoring / Scripting; Flash Action Scripting and Development; Interactive Media Development (Web / Mobile / Interactive TV) and Processing Language. Those who have experience in setting up experimental interaction design installations are preferred.

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Shang :: Mar.30.2009 :: news :: No Comments »

When coding in actionscript sometimes it can be a pain that you don’t get code hinting with objects that are on stage. A good way of overcoming this is to change the instance names of your objects (Movie Clips, Buttons, etc.) to have an underscore “_” then the abbreviated name of that object at the end of the name.

For example, you may have a movie clip on stage called myMovieClip. Change the instance name to have an _mc at the end (myMovieClip_mc), and now in your actions panel type myMovieClip_mc and press period. You will now see all the code hinting for a movie clip pop up (see image). This can save a whole heap of time when coding.

Here is a list of the different shortcuts that you can use to bring up the code hinting. Some of these are for AS2 but the rest will work with AS3.

Update: The best method for code hinting for objects that are not on the stage is to use strict data typing. 

For example:
var myArray:Array = new Array();

I find that using this technique saves me a whole heap of time when programming.

Ed :: Mar.02.2009 :: tips & tricks :: 6 Comments »