Tag Archives: Flex

Capture key sequences in ActionScript 3. AKA The Konami Comeback.

Lately the internet has had a wave of sites using the cherished Konami Cheatcode to reveal easter eggs or similar functionality in the site or app. I wrote a (crappy but working) class to implement such functionality in ActionScript about a year ago here. I decided to polish it up a bit for the benefit [...]

Adobe Updodger

Do you use any Adobe products? Tell me if this sounds familiar: “Oh hai! I need to update some totally unrelated stuff on your machine! You know, some camera raw stuff or InDesign whatchamacallits, so I’m just going to force you to quit all your browsers, because lordy lordy who knows what might happen if [...]

Clean flashlog.txt with a keystroke

Scenario: You’re working with the Flex SDK and you’re tracing messages to the Terminal via flashlog.txt. The damn logfile has heaps of clutter in it from the last project you were working on, and you want to clean it up. Solution: Save this snippet and assign it a Quicksilver hotkey: 1234try     do shell [...]

ActionScript 3 URL validator class

Fairly robust AS3 utility class for evaluating, parsing and tagging URLs.