Understanding objects in ActionScript Flash MX

I attended a Macromedia Flash MX seminar earlier this year (2002), at the end of which, Macromedia's representative asked the audience of designers and developers whether they understood the term "Object Oriented Programming"? Almost nobody in the room was confident enough to raise their hand. The basic animation techniques and predefined Macromedia methods in ActionScript are relatively easy for a beginner to pick up and teach themselves how to make interactive movies. This means that most Flas

making a Movie Clip move across the stage Flash MX

An easy way to make a one frame move just adding action script to a movie clip.

AS move with number of loops Flash MX

This is the easiest way to make a movie clip move across the stage and make it loop just a few times Open Flash and make a new movie, create a shape, a square or a circle, press F8 and choose "Movie Clip", now, select your new MC and add ths script:

API Drawing Flash MX

Flash MX comes with a wide range of new features. On of these new features if the "API Drawing" ability. This means you can start off with a completly blank stage and have your script do the drawing at runtime. In this tutorial I will teach you how to make the above drawing application using API. I expect you to be able to use and have a strong knowledge in actionscripting.

Drawing Spider Web Using API Flash MX

The main purpose of this tutorial is not to show you how to make the spider out of its web, but to explain how to use API (Application Programming Interface) drawing to draw the web figure. This feature is only available for flash MX. Actually there are 3 drawing methods can be created by this i.e.: drawing lines, drawing curves, and fill color. This tutorial covers only the drawing curves command.

Understanding Objects in ActionScript - revised Flash MX

I attended a Macromedia Flash MX seminar earlier this year (2002), at the end of which, Macromedia's representative asked the audience of designers and developers whether they understood the term "Object Oriented Programming"? Almost nobody in the room was confident enough to raise their hand. The basic animation techniques and predefined Macromedia methods in ActionScript are relatively easy for a beginner to pick up and teach themselves how to make interactive movies. This means that most Flas

delay, pausing, waiting, in MX Flash MX

How to create a delay before initiating an action, or playing a movie.

Advanced HitTest in Flash MX

I wrote this tutorial after running into problems porting over one of my action games into Flash MX. It seemed the hitTest function, at least how I had written it, was no longer valid. After some research I realized, MX does not accept eval on the left side of an argument, instead prefering to use brackets []. In fact, MX suggest any time you want to evaluate an expression, you place is inside []. To learn more read up on the symbol [] (array access) Eval (“A” + i); this[“A” + i]

Creating Flash Pop-Up Windows with the attachMovie method Flash MX

Want to spice up your Flash project with more interactivity or simulate a UI? This tutorial shows you how to use the attachMovie method to add a Flash pop-up window to your project.

How to make date & time appear in Flash MX! Flash MX

In this tutorial you're gonna learn how to add the time & date in Flash MX! It doesn't need any knowledge of actionscript, just how to overwrite actionscript from this tutorial!

Sound With ActionScript Flash MX

How to add sound via actionscript.

Loading Sequence, Loading Animation or Preloader Flash MX

Flash's ability to load external content, allows smart designers to break-up large projects into several smaller pieces. This can drastically reduce load times, especially for visitors that only plan on viewing certain areas of your site. It can also make updating your site much easier, since you can now update individual sections or content without having to make changes to your whole site. Without a loading sequence though, many of your website visitors may believe your site is broken or not r

Php Highscoreboard Flash MX

With this tutorial you will learn how to create a php flash based highscoreboard table.

Score Posting Flash MX

The encryption algo I chose was the simple XOR encryption. It's not strong, but then again, if you wanna code a better version then feel free. strText resembles the text you would like to keep intact strPW is the password you will use. Essentially, what happens, is the ASCII is XORed against the password, until all the text is broken into a numeric encrypted array and then posted to whichever site.

Custom color Flash MX

This tutorial will show you how you can change the color of a movie clip.

HOW TO Intercommunication between two separate SWF files. Flash MX

This tutorial will gide you, to make two Flash movies that are running (One proyector & one in the player, or player/browser, or browser/browser, etc..) To comunicate with each other. This tutorial will work ONLY with movies exported in Flash 6 or bigger. This means it works only in Flash MX.

Actionscript 2 example: creating buttons Flash MX 2

FlashMX 2004 is out and gives us new challenges. Who said MX (the old MX) will be the last challenge? Anyway making a long story short, it is time to learn Actionscript 2. So this tutorial is from a beginner (myself) to beginners. However, I am very familiar with AS1 and that probably makes it much easier to learn AS2. In order to understand this tutorial you should * have FlashMX 2004 installed on your computer, * be kind of familiar with actionscript 1, * read the ´HELP´ files

Flash 5 Percentage Preloader Flash 5

This is one of the most simplist things to do, since you dont even need graphics or anything like that. In fact, all it really needs is 3 to 5 lines of code and a Dynamic text box!

Falling Snow Flash 5

One really nice advantage of using Flash for animation is the ability to introduce randomness, rather than repeating the same visual over and over. Here's an easy-to-make snowfall movie that takes advantage of the random abilities of ActionScript.

Snow Globe Effect Flash MX

This tutorial will demonstrate to you how to make a 3Kb swf that simulates a snow-globe effect. It is built from Jeff Edsell's version with modifications to increase simplicity and significantly decrease file size. It's recommended that you know the basics of Flash. This tutorial has been separated into two parts (Preparation and ActionScript). In this tutorial, make your background a soft, dark color and you flakes white.