Tag Archives: snippets

RegEx – search and replace

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Łukasz Grela

The problem is to search bit of text and replace any occurance of the searched string with something new, with RegEx class and built-in replace function of String class it is very easy.

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JSFL – copy filters stack from Flash IDE into ActionScript 2 or 3 code

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Łukasz Grela

Hi, working with designers one will always get into a problem of replication IDE based filters via code, it’s not a pleasant task nor quick as well, but what about if we could actually make it quick and pleasant? Well, … Continue reading →

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Rectangle class, equals method returns incorrect value

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Łukasz Grela

Hi, recently I’ve used Rectangle’s equals() method and found that it incorrectly returns false when both rectangles are the same. Problem occurs when any of the properties of the Rectangle are NaN (not a number).

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useful use of switch block

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Łukasz Grela

Hi, recently I have browsed through wonderfl.net and found unknown to me but useful use-case of switch block. The switch is selection control block and usually is used as follows:

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Rectangle with “sorted” edges

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Łukasz Grela

In some situation you would like to reassure that given Rectangle object have “top-down, left-right” order you can do it using following two snippets this creates “normalized” copy of the given rectangle this modifies given rectangle directly

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