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A Simple JavaScript Code Example

To begin, create an HTML file and copy the code from our post A Basic HTML Page Template, and we will paste our JavaScript into it. You can use a simple text editor, like Notepad, to create the file. I will use “SimpleJavascriptExample.html” as the name of my file and paste this code inside the body tags:

<script type="text/javascript">
  document.write("Welcome to XoaX.net!");
</script>

After pasting the JavaScript code above into the HTML file, the code in the file should look like this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
  <title>XoaX.net</title>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
  document.write("Welcome to XoaX.net!");
</script>

</body>
</html>

Now, if we open the file with a browser, we will see the message “Welcome to XoaX.net!” printed out. This exact message could be written without JavaScript by just putting the message inside the body tags by itself. However, we are preparing the way to write more complex JavaScript examples.

In this example, we have one line of JavaScript code inside of the script tags. The script tags, along with the type designation “text/javascript,” tell the browser that the enclosed code is JavaScript. The single line of JavaScript code inside the tags tells the browser to call the write() function on the document object with the argument “Welcome to XoaX.net!”. The semicolon at the end of the line signals the end of the command.

Capturing and Playing Video From a Camera in Actionscript 3.0

This program gives a simple demonstration of how to display video that is captured by a camera. If you have a camera attached to your computer (most laptops do), then you can click the box above to display the video capture from your camera. Note that you will need click the “Allow” button to see the video. To stop the video, refresh the page.

The code for this program is simple and is listed below. The first three lines display the message “Click To Play.” The next line, sets the function CaptureVideo() as a callback to respond to mouse clicks.

After that, we have the CaptureVideo() function, which attempts to get access to a camera and checks whether the attempt was successful. If there is a camera, a Video object is created, attached to the camera, and added to the stage for display.

// Output the initial instructions to user
var qInstructions:TextField = new TextField();
qInstructions.text = "Click To Play";
addChild(qInstructions);

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, CaptureVideo);

function CaptureVideo(e:Event):void {
	var qCamera:Camera = Camera.getCamera();
	if (qCamera != null) {
		var qVideo:Video = new Video(320, 240);
		qVideo.attachCamera(qCamera);
		addChild(qVideo);
	}
}

Generating Sounds in Actionscript 3.0

This program shows how to generate and play a sound. The generated sound is in the form of a sine wave, and it plays whenever the screen is clicked. Left-click the box above to hear the sound play.

The entire code to generate the sound is shown below. The first three lines just output the message “Click To Play.” The next two lines create a Sound object and an integer for the time. The two lines after that set callbacks for generating sound and responding to mouse clicks.

The rest of the program consists of the PlaySound() and Generator() functions. The PlaySound() function initializes the integer that keeps track of the sample time to 0 and then calls play() on the Sound object. The Generator() function writes 8192 samples at a time for the left and right channels; the generated sound is a sine wave that lasts half of a second, since sounds have 44100 samples per second.

// Output the initial instructions to user
var qInstructions:TextField = new TextField();
qInstructions.text = "Click To Play";
addChild(qInstructions);

var qSound:Sound = new Sound();
var iTime:int = 0;

qSound.addEventListener(SampleDataEvent.SAMPLE_DATA, Generator);
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, PlaySound);

function PlaySound(e:Event):void {
	iTime = 0;
	qSound.play();
}

function Generator(event:SampleDataEvent):void {
	for (var i:int = 0; i < 8192; ++i) {
		// Play for half of a second
		if (iTime >= 22050) {
			return;
		}
		event.data.writeFloat(Math.sin(iTime/25));
		event.data.writeFloat(Math.cos(iTime/25));
		++iTime;
	}
}

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A Simple JavaScript Code Example

Capturing and Playing Video From a Camera in Actionscript 3.0

Generating Sounds in Actionscript 3.0