The FindURL() Class (v1.2)

I’ve updated the FindURL class because a couple of people were asking for the ability to target a new browser window. The class can be completely overwritten and shouldn’t affect any old code that you may have produced…it targets the same window as default.

However if you want to target a new browser window you can now do so by adding an additional parameter…”_blank”. See the example below:

var input:String = "blah blah blah http://www.burnedouthippy.com blah blah blah";
var fU:FindURL = new FindURL(input, "_blank");
var output:String = fU.Process();

If you run a trace on output, you’ll see that the new string has HTML a tags inside it and it also now targets a new browser. You can change “_blank” for any other HTML target and it should work just fine…alternatively, completely leave out the second parameter and it will automatically target “_self”.

Download the FindURL v1.2

Strict XHTML target=”_blank” replacement

Occasionally, just occasionally, web standards really annoy me. Not because of what they stand for, but because of the stupidity of the people who came up with them. Case in point, if you want a link to to launch in a new window/tab, all you have to do in HTML is type…

target="_blank"

in your <a> tag. But I’ve just discovered that this doesn’t validate in Strict XHTML 1.0, the W3C recommended doctype. Read the rest of this post >

Flash on the Beach 2010

Tickets for Flash on the Beach 2010 were released this morning and are selling like hotcakes. For those of you that don’t know, Flash on the Beach is the definitive conference for all things Flash/Flex/Design/Actionscript Development/General Web sexiness.

If you’re in the industry and have never been:

1. Shame on you;
2. Buy a ticket NOW;
3. Shame on you!

I can’t stress enough how much of a great time you’ll have. To give you a taster of what to expect, check out my review of Flash on the Beach 2009.

Hope to see you there!

Warning 1090: Migration issue

Actionscript 3 errors and warnings are not always easy to understand – especially if you’re teaching yourself and aren’t completely up on all of the terminology. Sometimes I scream for the error message to be plainer English and spend far too long googling the solution. So from now on if I get an error and found that the solution was simple but took a while to find, I’m going to blog it here. Hopefully it will help somebody else too! Read the rest of this post >

Actionscript 3 getURL() class

I don’t know about you, but one of the things that I miss most about AS2 is the simplicity to use…

getURL("http:www.mysite.com", "_blank")

…to launch a web address.

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