{"id":106,"date":"2006-12-08T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T19:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/as3-util-api-available\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T23:31:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T04:31:24","slug":"as3-util-api-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/as3-util-api-available\/","title":{"rendered":"AS3 Utility classes available for Flex 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have compiled some common AS3 utility APIs for public use as specified under the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MIT_License\">MIT license<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The utilities APIs are comprised of the following:<\/p>\n<p><strong>DeepCopy:<\/strong><br \/>\nCreates a Deep Copy of an object reference to a new memory address and returns the cloned object<\/p>\n<p><strong>HashMap:<\/strong><br \/>\nCreates a HashMap of object key \/ values as well as provides a standard API for working with a HashMap<\/p>\n<p><strong>ICollectionViewSortHelper:<\/strong><br \/>\nProvides an API for collection alpha \/ numerical, ascending \/ descending  sorting<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introspection:<\/strong><br \/>\nProvides a robust API which performs detailed object introspection on a specified type<\/p>\n<p><strong>IteratorFactory:<\/strong><br \/>\nFactory Pattern implementation which provides an API for Iterator instantiation<\/p>\n<p><strong>ObjectIterator:<\/strong><br \/>\nIterator implementation which provides methods for iterating over an object<\/p>\n<p><strong>ArrayCollectionIterator:<\/strong><br \/>\nIterator implementation which provides methods for iterating over a Collection<\/p>\n<p><strong>ArrayIterator:<\/strong><br \/>\nIterator implementation which provides methods for iterating over an array<\/p>\n<p><strong>StringUtil:<\/strong><br \/>\nAll static class which extends mx.utils.StringUtil to add additional methods for working with Strings<\/p>\n<p><strong>AVM2MemoryUtil:<\/strong><br \/>\nAll static class which returns the current memory allocated to a Flash Player instance in bytes, kilobytes or megabytes<\/p>\n<p>I will continue to add to the utils package and make the updates regularly available. You can download the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/code.ericfeminella.com\/apis\/EricFeminellaUtilAPI.zip\">swc<\/a> as well as view the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/code.ericfeminella.com\/asdocs\/UtilPackageAPIDocumentation-asdoc\/class-summary.html\">ASDoc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have compiled some common AS3 utility APIs for public use as specified under the MIT license. The utilities APIs are comprised of the following: DeepCopy: Creates a Deep Copy of an object reference to a new memory address and returns the cloned object HashMap: Creates a HashMap of object key \/ values as well as provides a standard API&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/as3-util-api-available\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[23,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-patterns","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericfeminella.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}