Number handling - Actionscript

Round a number to few decimal places:

To round a number to few decimal places use the following samples

Round to one decimal place
Math.round(35.2499 * 10) / 10 // returns 35.2

Round to two decimal place
Math.round(35.2499 * 100) / 100 // returns 35.25

Round to three decimal place
Math.round(35.2499 * 1000) / 1000 // returns 35.25

Round a number to the nearest multiple of an integer:

To round a number to nearest multiple of an integer use the following samples

Round a number to nearest multiple of 5
Math.round(35.2499 / 5) * 5 // returns 35

Round a number to nearest multiple of 10
Math.round(35.2499 / 10) * 10 // returns 40

Capture the end of audio play - onPlayStatus

Few days back i was working with playing FLV through RED5 server. I got everything right except for capturing the end of audio play. I was trying to capture the end of play through "Netsream.Play.Stop" event. But this event got trigerred during the middle of the play. So i was looking for other options for capturing the STOP event.

I came through a event called onPlayStatus which gets trigerred after the audio plays completely. The code is

ns.onPlayStatus = function(info:Object)
{
trace("End of audio play");
}

For more information about this event check here

Fixing the "base" attribute for Flash embedded in IE

Few days back my tech lead helped me to crack the problem of relative URL issue in embedding flash in HTML document. Normally if you embed a SWF file in a HTML document which is placed at different level of that SWF, and if you try to load external resources(image,swf) relative to the swf, then SWF will look for the resource relative to the HTML.

To solve this issue you should use base attribute in the EMBED tag. The base attrribute should point to the directory of SWF file. So once this is done, the SWF will load the external resources correctly.

And today when i checked this in great Internet Explorer, it didn't work. To be frank i was not stunned to see this. IE has always been a nightmare for the developers. Then i tried various workarounds. One workaround worked for me. IE doesn't compile the EMBED tag. It renders the output based on the OBJECT tag and the PARAM tag. So i added a new PARAM tag with NAME attribute as base and VALUE attribute points to the directory of SWF file.

So now i am a happy man :)