The Date class will allow you to check the current date and time on a user's computer. You'll find this class valuable when developing widgets like an event count down clock. To work with the Date class, you must instantiate a Date object:

var myDate:Date = new Date();
trace(myDate);

When the Date object has been built, you can call methods or get properties of the Date class to get date and time values:

var myDate:Date = new Date();
trace(myDate.getDate());

The getDate() method gets the current day of the month.

The getMonth() method gets the month of the year as a number value. Numeric references to the current month are not the normal month numbers we are used to working with.

For example, January is equal to 0 and December is equal to 11. For display reasons, always add 1 to the returned month number to get the true calendar month value.

Available methods for getting Time and Date properties of the Date class are:

• getDate();
• getDay();
• getFullYear();
• getHours();
• getMilliseconds();
• getMinutes();
• getMonth();
• getSeconds();

Note: For a full description of each method search "date class" via the Flash help menu.

Easy.. now get fancy with it and tell us what you created..

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Here is a simple peice of ActionScript that can also be used to create snow or rain. I've seen a few particle engines on the net that I easily could have used but I wanted something simpler.

So this is what I came up with.

var total:Number = 30; //total number of bubble
var sw:Number = Stage.width; //stage width
var sh:Number = Stage.height; //stage height
 
for (var i=0;i<total;i++){
 
     var bubble:MovieClip = this.attachMovie("mcBubble",
     "mcBubble"+i,this.getNextHighestDepth());
 
     // set the initial random speed
     bubble.yspeed = random(500) + 3;
 
     // set the initial random position
     bubble._y = sh;
     bubble._x = random(sw);
 
     // set the initial wobble factor (the X movement)
     bubble.xspeed = random(3);
 
     if (random(2) eq 1) {
          bubble.xspeed = -bubble.xspeed;
     }
 
     bubble.onEnterFrame = function(){
 
         // the bubble movement
         this._y = this._y - this.yspeed;
 
         // check if the bubble is out of the top of the screen
         if (this._y <= -15) {
 
             // then reset to the bottom
             this._y = sh;
             this._x = random(sw);
             this.yspeed = random(5) + 3;
 
            // now to randomise the scale of the bubble so
            // we get a few wee ones too
 
            scale = 2 + (random(8));
            this._width = scale;
            this._height = scale;
 
            // set the initial wobble factor (the X movement)
            this.xspeed = random(3);
 
            if (random(2) eq 1) {
               this.xspeed = -this.xspeed;
            }
         }
 
         // change the X value of the bubble
         this._x = this._x + this.xspeed;
 
         // the bounce code for either the left or right of the
         // margin for the bubble
         if (this._x > 100 or this._x < 50) {
             this.xspeed = -this.xspeed;
         }
 
      }
 
}

Easy.. now this is what it looks like.

You could make it more realistic by tweaking the speed, wobble values and add blurs or better graphics but what I needed  it for, this is perfect.

Download the Source Code - Use it any way you want, just let others know how you used it by leaving a comment. Peace!

Enjoy.

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Recently I needed to disable all buttons on my flash site. I trawled the net looking for answers but all I got was what I already knew. Which is disabling each button 1 by 1 using an array like so:

 
//an array of button instance names
var buttonInstanceNames:Array = new Array("button1","button2",
"button3", "button4");
 
//function that sets the buttons enabled state
function enableButtons(e){
   for(var i=0;i<buttons.length;i++){>
      this[buttonInstanceNames[i]].enabled = e;
   }
}
 
//call function and assign enabled state
enableButtons(false);

This is all good if you have a few buttons but what if your site is complex like the 1 I was working on and you wanted to disable all button interactivity without knowing buttons instance names.

Solution
Basically place a movie clip button over the entire movie or just over the area where your buttons are with _alpha set to 0. Remember to set the movie clip with a onRollOver, or onRelease event. Just set the blocking movie clip's _visible state to false when you want interactivity back.

Here is the code I used to get this working.

 
//The instance name of my blocker movieclip is "mcBlocker"
//show or hide the button blocker
function enableButtons(e){
   mcBlocker._visible = e;
   mcBlocker.onRollOver = doNothing;
 }
 
//do nothing when the blocker active
function doNothing(){}
 
//just enable or disable the blocker
enableButtons(false);
 

Hope this helps..

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var myKeyListener = new Object();
myKeyListener.onKeyUp = function() {
var myString = myTextfield.text;
var firstLetter = (myString.charAt(0)).toUpperCase();
var remainderLetters = (myString.substring(1)).toLowerCase();
var myNewString = firstLetter+remainderLetters;
myTextfield.text = myNewString;
};
Key.addListener(myKeyListener);

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Flashnutz ActionScript 2.0 actionscript, listener object, Textfield Listener