Articles by Darron J. Schall

Multiple Inheritance in ActionScript 3.0

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:00:00 EST

Did you know ActionScript 3.0 supports multiple inheritance? Here's how... Multiple inheritance is actually possible with AS3, despite popular belief that it's not supported. It's not really multiple inheritance in the true sense of the word going by the strict definition... but there's a way to get the job done in AS3 that behaves almost like the real thing.

The Future of ActionScript

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:30:00 EDT

This month Darron's Diary looks at an Iterator implementation, at ECMAScript 4, and previews his own latest book. Because ActionScript is based on the ECMAScript standard, anything that happens in ECMAScript will almost certainly happen in ActionScript too. Not to mention, quite a few of the Adobe folks are on the ECMAScript committee...

Flash, Web Services, and Data Binding

Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

In Part One (MXDJ, vol. 3 issue 2) we looked at one of three different ways to consume a Web service, here we look at two other ways and some of the pros and cons of each approach. In this next example we'll explore using data binding in a different way from Pt. 1, by not relying on the Bindings tab of the Component Inspector panel. Instead, we'll create the bindings through ActionScript.

Flash, Web Services, and Data Binding

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:00:00 EST

This is not Web Services 101. This is not an introduction to Flash. This is not art. This is not a love song. Now that that's out the way, be prepared to bind data like there's no tomorrow.

'Jazz' up Your Applications with Open Source Java

Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:00:00 EST

By now it should be no surprise to hear ColdFusion and Java mentioned in the same sentence. You've probably seen the examples, read the tutorials, and poured over lines of Java code in hope of enhancing your ColdFusion applications. Either that, or you've filed the information in a 'nice to know' vault and continued on with your ordinary development habits.