Making Mouse Trails Flash 4

This is a great little tutorial explaining how to create the very cool effect of having a series of objects follow your mouse around.

Creating an Animated Hidden Menu System Flash 4

The life force behind any interactive, complex animation is the movie clip. It's important to remember that movie clips can be nested and play their entire timeline even if the playback head isn't moving. For all you Director folks this is somewhat contrary to the methodology we're used to of looping in a frame or a series of frames while another piece of media like digital video or even a Flash animation plays its timeline. This particular example uses only one movie clip but it's fairly hefty

Frame Navigation using Flash Flash 4

In this tutorial we will be investigating how to use flash files in one frame to affect a HTML file in the other.

Opening Browser Windows without Buttons Flash 4

Learn a quick and easy way to open and close full browers windows without all those unsightly nav buttons to confuse your visitor.

Creating a Drop Down Menu Flash 5

Welcome to the Flashkit Drop-Down Menu tutorial. In this tutorial we are going to look at simple but dynamic way of creating a drop-down style menu using flash animation. The effect on your web page is stunning and it is very versatile in that it can be used with frames pages or single pages with tables, etc.

Creating a Rotating Menu (Flash 4) Flash 4

Learn how to create a fantastic rotating menu!

Hidden, Animated Rollover Menu's: Flash 5 Update! Flash 5

Do you want to create much more than pretty buttons... how about cool hidden menus that could be animated! This is a long tutorial so be sure you've got enough time.

Making an Info-Window with Scrolling Text Flash 5

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

Pull Down Menu Flash 5

Simple way to make a pull down text box like seen on web pages. Good way to save space.

Horizontal cursor controlled scrolling navigation Flash 5

This tutorial will walk you through the development of a cursor controlled scrolling navigation menu. This tutorial assumes prior knowledge of flash basics like movieclips, buttons, frame actions, key frames, tweening etc. Since I know you have all that knowledge stored away somewhere we'll get started by taking a look at what you will be creating.

Mac OS X - like Menu Flash 5

Mac OS X has a new menu dock with a great zoom feature. I'll take you step by step creating this neat little menubar for use in your own web pages (or other flash applications). The menu can be created on the top or bottom of the movie window with a few minor adjustments.

Rollover Description Flash 5

Make a button where when a user mouses over, a dragable description pops up!

Creating Custom Cursor in Flash 5 Flash 5

Are you bored of the old blocky cursor why not even I was bored until I found that I could replace it with the one I like. So, why not try to replace it with your own. Creating Custom Cursor in Flash 5 is easy. You just need a design for your cursor and some code.

Vertical cursor controlled scrolling navigation Flash 5

Develop a vertical cursor controlled scrolling navigation. Great for images or text buttons.

Force to click window Flash MX

Very useful action that you might want to use instead of annoying pop-up windows.

Create a Drop Down Menu for showing pictures Flash MX

This tutorial shows how to use drop down menu using simple actionscript. When you click the button, it will show a drop down buttons which every button can be clicked to show different pictures.

Simple Scrolling Movie Clip Flash 5

Here is a tutorial based around my "Simple Scrollbar" turorial but this is horizontal scrolling of a MovieClip. It is also very simple and uses little code, employing the same globalToLocal method.

Drop down menu in flash 5 Flash 5

A very simple way to make a drop down menu in flash 5.

Relative getURL links Flash 5

Unfortunately, relative getURL links in .swf files are only relative to the .html file they are embedded in. This becomes a problem with you are creating one flash file (a menu bar for example) that will that will appear on HTML files in multiple sub folders on your site. Sure you could do all absolute links, or relative to root links, but this becomes problem when you want to test your site before hosting it on a server. There is a fairly simple way around this problem.

How to make a toggle button Flash MX

This tutorial tells you, step by step, how to create a toggle button, basically for a a stop/play action. It is a continuation of my previous tutorial found here at flashkit under the audio category! But this method can be used anywhere and is fully independant!