{"id":2111,"date":"2012-07-27T17:26:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T00:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/?p=2111"},"modified":"2012-09-29T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T17:40:46","slug":"super-simple-script-snippets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/super-simple-script-snippets","title":{"rendered":"Super Simple Script Snippets"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been working on a game<\/a>.
\nSome super simple stuff that has come in handy…
\nCLICK HERE FOR THE SOURCE FILES<\/a><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\/\/splitting a string every given amount of characters and saving the result to an array
\n\/\/DOWNLOAD SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n

var arr:Array = new Array();<\/p>\n

function str_split(str:String, splitTo:Number)
\n{
\n\tvar arr_str:Array = new Array();
\n\tfor(var i:Number=0; i < str.length; i += splitTo){\n\t\tarr_str.push(str.slice(i, i+splitTo));\n\t}\n\treturn(arr_str);\n}\n\nvar str = 'This has been split every 3 characters.';\narr = str_split(str,3);\ntrace(arr);\n\/\/outputs Thi,s h,as ,bee,n s,pli,t e,ver,y 3, ch,ara,cte,rs.\n\n--\n\/\/timing the length of a text field based on its character count\n\/\/for character dialogues\n\/\/ DOWNLOAD SOURCE
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

txt_test.text = “This will clear after a convenient time. Just enough to read it.”;<\/p>\n

var timer_prompt:Timer = new Timer(txt_test.length*50, 1);
\ntimer_prompt.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, clearPrompt);
\ntimer_prompt.start();<\/p>\n

function clearPrompt(event:TimerEvent):void {
\n\ttrace(“clearPrompt() called after:” + getTimer() + ” ms.”);
\n\ttxt_test.text = “”;
\n}<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

\/\/passing a function as a function parameter
\n\/\/loop through an array, if the array has that element apply a specific function to the movieclip (tile)
\n\/\/ DOWNLOAD SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n

var arr_tilename_Walkable:Array = new Array(“up\/down”, “left\/right”, “t-intersection-1”, “t-intersection-2”, “t-intersection-3”, “t-intersection-4”, “x-intersection”, “l-intersection-1”, “l-intersection-2”, “l-intersection-3”, “l-intersection-4”, “rubble”);
\nvar arr_tilename_Unwalkable:Array = new Array(“cliff_4_2”, “cliff_4_1”, “cliff_4”, “cliff_1_4”, “cliff_3”, “cliff_2”, “cliff_1_3”, “cliff_1_2”, “cliff_1”);
\nvar arr_tilename_Levels:Array = new Array(“suburbs”,”igor”);<\/p>\n

function test1(){
\n\ttrace(“test1() was called, pass the tile some values…”);
\n}<\/p>\n

function test2(){
\n\ttrace(“test2() called, pass the tile some other values…”);
\n}<\/p>\n

\/\/called for applying values to tiles (according to label)…
\nfunction loops(func:Function, arr:Array, clip:MovieClip)
\n{
\n\tfor (var k:Number=0; kDOWNLOAD SOURCE
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

var rex_newlines:RegExp = \/(\\t|\\n|\\r)\/gi; \/\/strip out newline breaks
\ntxt_aspx.text = txt_aspx.text.replace(rex_newlines,”);<\/p>\n

var rex_spaces:RegExp = \/ \/g;\/\/strip out spaces
\ntxt_aspx.text = txt_aspx.text.replace(rex_spaces,”);<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

It’s shaping up so far…<\/p>\n

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I’ve been working on a game. Some super simple stuff that has come in handy… CLICK HERE FOR THE SOURCE FILES — \/\/splitting a string every given amount of characters and saving the result to an array \/\/DOWNLOAD SOURCE var arr:Array = new Array(); function str_split(str:String, splitTo:Number) { var arr_str:Array = new Array(); for(var i:Number=0; i < str.length; i += splitTo){ arr_str.push(str.slice(i, i+splitTo)); } return(arr_str); } var str = 'This has been split every 3 characters.'; arr = str_split(str,3); trace(arr); \/\/outputs Thi,s h,as ,bee,n s,pli,t e,ver,y 3, ch,ara,cte,rs. -- \/\/timing the length of a text field based on its character...\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}