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Working on a recent project, I needed to collect mailing addresses, and to get the state info I decided use a ComboBox. I know I’ve done this before in the past, so I went looking for the code defining the list of states so I wouldn’t have to type it all up again, but after about five minutes I gave up and started looking online. After all, I’m sure someone has made one of these things before in the past, right?
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A while ago I was working on a project that required me to store the instance name of every movieclip on the stage in an external file. I wasn’t looking forward to this portion of the project because it would mean copying and pasting several hundred instance names. Unfortunately, I couldn’t do a for - in loop, because these names needed to be hard-coded into the file.
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