Keyboard Control Flash 4

When you want people to navigate through your screen, you can easily do it by letting them click on a few buttons like arrows. But you can of course make your movie a bit more 'interactive' and 'smooth' by letting them push a few keys on the keyboard. This tutorial shows you how it's done...

Preloaders Flash 4

This tutorial will be delving into the world of preloaders, what they are and how to build them.

Bar Preloaders Flash 4

I'll firstly begin by saying that this can be done using javascript however having a preloader self-contained in the movie is a lot easier. So if you want to create a All-Flash bar preloader, read on. What we have to do here is create a movie that entertains or at least gives an indication of how much has loaded through a series of statements that check if a portion or all of the frames have been loaded. In this tutorial we'll be recreating this Bar Preloader.

Swift Tools FAQ Flash 4

Your one stop FAQ for all your questions regarding the Swift Inspector and Generator.

Creating Floating Button Labels Flash 4

Flash has become the new frontier in web design. Everyday people are coming up with new designs in flash, many breaking with the traditional concept of a web page. But there remains some guidelines that can put you in the right direction. One of the most important is Keep it Clean, Clear and Comprehensible. This in itself can be viewed as an oxymoron but the principle still stands. A Flash designer has to create a movie that is foolproof with a few added extras, to cater for the inevitable e

Detecting 'On Key Release' Flash 4

Flash does not explicitly recognize the MouseEvent "On Key Release", but there is a reliable way to do it.

Creating an Active Search List Flash 4

This is a very useful FLA. Learn how to load a list of links, display them and search through them.

Sharpening Images in Flash Flash 5

Ever wondered why your perfect images get blurred in Flash? Learn in this tutorial how to remove the smoothing effect.

Using the Hit Test Method Flash 5

A quick and easy demonstration on how to test if two movie object are touching one another.

Making Flash Movies Transparent Flash 4

Divcover how to make your movies transparent. This will allow you to see the HTML color.

Building a Custom Cursor in Flash 5 Flash 5

This technique is one that no serious Flash designer should be without. I wrote this Flash 5 tutorial mainly for designers - as they may not have all the programming/ActionScript experience they need to create great interactive Flash sites and presentations.

Modifying Object Colors at Run-time Flash 5

Color changing in Flash 5 can be done on any movieclip in the movie. The basic idea is to make our movieclip "colorizable" by creating a virtual object, defining it's color and then applying it to our real object. This tutorial is a two step process. First we'll look at the actionscript required to change the color then we'll look at the mouse events and the actionscipt required to execute the color change.

Sound Toggle Menu using Variables Flash 4

In this tutorial I will show you how to create 2 seperate items: a menu bar driven by variables, and a sound on/off button driven by variables.

Dynamic Pie Chart in Flash 5 Flash 5

This tutorial shows how to create a pie chart with a symbol key by duplicating and attaching movieclips. Before we get into the guts of the movie, though, a couple notes about Flash 5 actionscript need addressing.

Creating Cross Browser Scrollers Using DHTML Flash 4

There's something about text moving across the screen that fascinates people. Since it was first possible to create moving text in a webpage, by using JavaScript, countless so-called scroller scripts have been created. Have you noticed, however, that most of them are limited to scrolling the text either inside a textbox, or status bar?

Buttons with Tell Targets and Movies Flash 5

Creating a simple button over effect.

Creating a Text that uses Scrollbuttons and a Scrollbar Flash 4

Most people have seen this before, a text which can be used as an info-window, help-window or with other functionalities, using scrollbuttons and a scrollbar together.

Simple Radio Button Flash 4

This tutorial describes how to create a simple radio button that can be used in a form.

Creating Light Waves Over Text Flash 5

Ok, in this tutorial you will learn how to create an animation to where there is a light wave running through over text.

Making a Dial Button Flash 4

In this tutorial, I show you how to build a dial just like those good old stereo tuners. The dial can be used as a dimmer switch or as any kind of slider. In the example below, the dial was linked to a movie clip that contains a dynamic text field that tells its degree of rotation.