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Basic Flash AS3 -tutorial
This is a very simple tutorial introducing you to some basic AS3 syntax - Starterkit
Event bubbling is a new feature of AS3, enabling to separate child from parent events. Related is the "Separating button events" tutorial.
This tutorial shows how to add functionality to a child button within a parent button.
Getting started developing content for Flash 10.
| Top |XML
XML slideshow using the Flashscript biz classes to create thumbs, load slides and create effects.
How to load a text/XML file from a foreign domain in Flash using a proxy php file.
| Top |Utilities
Root finder, detects the stage, root (main timeline) and Sprites and MovieClips (component).
AS3: AS2 --> AS3 communication
Sending variables from an AS2 movie, which is loaded in an AS3 movie using Javatscript and the ExternalInterface class.
This tutorial shows how to create a basic AS3 preloader for the main timeline.
AS3: ByteArray - Saving an image
This tutorial shows how to create a ByteArray object with pixel data from an image and store it on the harddrive.
This is a set of classes and components to facilitate creating AS3 movies.
Accessing Flex objects in a movie loaded in Flash.
| Top |Design Patterns
Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern
A Login system using the MVC design pattern.
How to communicate among classes and maintain some form of encapsulation.
Composite Pattern: Flash AS3 Menu example
Menu example using a composite design pattern.
| Top |Media
Audio wave analyzers cannot only be made with mp3 files but also with wav and au files. Check here how it is done.
Flash AS3: PDF attachment with email
A new way to use the alivePDF library to attach a PDF to an email.
| Top |Text
How to embed fonts in a textfield and style the textfield with a stylesheet.
Flash 10 Textengine: Creating curved text
Creating text along an arc.
| Top |Components
How to change skins and text from individual rows of the DataGrid and list components.
A component, which allows using stylesheets unlike the regular AS3 TextArea component and more...
How to change the appearance of AS3 component instances using actionscript.
| Top |In Short
Problem installing components in CS4
Problem with overlapping sounds
| Top |Pixelbender
This is a very simple Pixelbender script, which changes the brightness of a bitmap. Shown is the incorporation of the script into a flash movie.
| Top |3D
How to add a transition effect to a slideshow using the Matrix3D class.