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AS3 Encoder/Decoder for Special Characters

January 7th, 2011 by Adrian

Here is a little tool that I have made which can be used to encode and decode strings into URL escape sequences (eg. convert special characters so they are safe to transmit in a query string). I recently also had the need to encode and decode HTML named entity references (eg. ” becomes ”) and after a long hunt around the web I couldn’t find one in AS3. So I have also written a static class called HTMLEntities which has the public methods ‘encode’ and ‘decode’. Hopefully you will find it useful. All the source code is available below.

Download a ZIP of the source code here

NOTE: If you use the HTMLEntities class, you may want to remove the entry for the apostrophe (‘) which encodes it as ' because it is not supported by Internet Explorer. Apostrophes are better off being encoded as '

Here are some useful lists of the HTML Named Entities …

And these are handy conversion tools …

Posted in ActionScript 3.0, Sample Code | 5 Comments »

Colour Line Drawing – Part 2

April 2nd, 2008 by Adrian

Following on from yesterday’s post, I’ve had chance to update the Colour Line Drawing demo to include gradual colour changing (instead of random) and fixed the saving of the image to a jpeg file.

The saving of the image is done using the as3corelib library (thanks to Henry Jones for providing an example of this). Thanks also to Ryan Taylor for his color spectrum blog post.

Colour Line Drawing Screengrab

Click here to launch the demo.

You can download the source files here.

Here is the code in the Main document class …

package {
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.display.Graphics;
    import flash.display.Stage;
    import flash.display.BitmapData;
   
    import flash.events.MouseEvent;
    import flash.events.KeyboardEvent;
   
    import flash.ui.Mouse;
    import flash.ui.Keyboard;
   
    import flash.utils.ByteArray;
   
    import flash.net.navigateToURL;
    import flash.net.URLRequestHeader;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.net.URLLoader;
    import flash.net.URLRequestMethod;
   
    import com.adobe.images.JPGEncoder;

    public class Main extends MovieClip
    {
        private var canvas:MovieClip;
        private var serverPath:String = "";
        private var colourIncrement:int = 0;
       
        public function Main():void
        {
            Mouse.hide();
            stage.showDefaultContextMenu = false;
            stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, reportKeyDown);
           
            canvas = new MovieClip();
            canvas.graphics.beginFill(0x000000);
            canvas.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 500, 375);
            canvas.graphics.endFill();
            canvas.graphics.moveTo(mouseX, mouseY);
            canvas.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, mouseMoved);
            canvas.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clearScreen);
            addChild(canvas);
        }
       
        private function mouseMoved(evt:MouseEvent):void
        {
            var nColorPercent:Number = colourIncrement / 200;
            colourIncrement += 1;
            var nRadians:Number = (-360 * nColorPercent) * (Math.PI / 180);
            var nRed:Number = Math.cos(nRadians) * 127 + 128 < < 16;
            var nGreen:Number = Math.cos(nRadians + 2 * Math.PI / 3) * 127 + 128 << 8;
            var nBlue:Number = Math.cos(nRadians + 4 * Math.PI / 3) * 127 + 128;
            var nColour:Number = nRed | nGreen | nBlue;

            canvas.graphics.lineStyle(60, nColour, 1);
            canvas.graphics.lineTo(mouseX, mouseY);
            evt.updateAfterEvent();
        }
       
        private function clearScreen(evt:MouseEvent):void
        {
            canvas.graphics.clear();
            canvas.graphics.beginFill(0x000000);
            canvas.graphics.drawRect(0, 0, 500, 375);
            canvas.graphics.endFill();
            canvas.graphics.moveTo(mouseX, mouseY);
        }
       
       
        private function reportKeyDown(evt:KeyboardEvent):void
        {
            if (evt.keyCode == Keyboard.SPACE) {
                createJPG(canvas, 90, "colour_line_drawing");
            } else if (evt.keyCode == Keyboard.ESCAPE) {
                if (stage.displayState == "normal") {
                    stage.displayState = "fullScreen";
                }
            }
        }
       
        function createJPG(m:MovieClip, q:Number, fileName:String)
        {
            var jpgSource:BitmapData = new BitmapData (m.width, m.height);
            jpgSource.draw(m);
            var jpgEncoder:JPGEncoder = new JPGEncoder(q);
            var jpgStream:ByteArray = jpgEncoder.encode(jpgSource);
           
            var header:URLRequestHeader = new URLRequestHeader ("Content-type", "application/octet-stream");
                       
            var jpgURLRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest ( serverPath+"jpg_encoder_download.php?name=" + fileName + ".jpg");      
            jpgURLRequest.requestHeaders.push(header);             
            jpgURLRequest.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;              
            jpgURLRequest.data = jpgStream;
           
            var jpgURLLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();      
            navigateToURL(jpgURLRequest, "_blank");
        }
       
    }
}

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