Today I have a very quick tip but useful. I’ve wasted a few minutes of my life trying to find an answer for this because I’m not an expert when it comes to regular expressions.
This code comes in handy if you’re trying to remove \n (a break line) from a string and you want to replace it with something else (line a comma, as shown in the example below) you can use the following code:
string.replace(/[\r\n]+/g, ",");
Here you have an easy way to detect shakes on mobile devices with equipped accelerometer: var lastShake:Number = 0; var shakeWait:Number = 600; var acc:Accelerometer = new Accelerometer(); acc.addEventListener(AccelerometerEvent.UPDATE, onAccUpdate); function onAccUpdate(e:AccelerometerEvent):void { if(getTimer() – lastShake > shakeWait && (e.accelerationX >= 1.5 || e.accelerationY >= 1.5 || e.accelerationZ >= 1.5)) { shakeIt(); lastShake = getTimer();…
Today I found myself needing to implement AlivePDF into a project that needs to generate a PDF, save it on the server and download it to the user’s computer. Since I didn’t find any information about how to do this (and I found some other people trying to find out how it’s done) I thought…
Today I’ve been working on a project where I needed to convert numbers to letters. I’ve made a nice utility class for this simple task. Not sure if it’s the best way but it works perfectly fine. Basically I have an array where the items need to be in alphabetical order instead of numbering them…
Today I received a question about how to check and see if an attribute is present into a XML node. I thought it wold be a good idea if I post the answer here in case someone else needs to do the same. This is the ActionScript code: if(node.@attributeName in node) { //the attribute is…
A simple utility class that will help you convert a color value (from numbers) to hexadecimal color value. Basically you can convert the color value to hex string with colorNumber.toString(16); Now, if you have this shade of blue “13311”, for example, it will be converted to “33ff”. You can fix that with while(hexColor.length < 6)...
Expandable Banner – How to make it and embed it into your HTML page without affecting the rest of the page. Today I helped a friend who needed an expandable banner embedded into a news website. At first, I had the instinct to searching on Google and giving him an URL or something where he…