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Shared Object – utilizing the Flash cookie
Overview
The Shared Object is like a cookie for flash. It lets flash store some data on the local machine, so between sessions it can remember things. Learn more from wikipedia.
Shared Objects are used to store data on the client machine in much the same way that data is stored in a cookie created through a [...]
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XML and Flash Actionscript made Easy | Parse XML to Object | Tutorial
XML and flash is something that always seemed to be more complicated than it needed to be. Then I had an idea to parse the xml nodes into actionscript as objects, that would make working with xml tons easier for me, I could just parse it once and then forget about the xml, I could [...]
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Get Current URL and Query String Parameters to Flash | Tutorial
Overview
This tutorial / how to / example will show how to get the current url from the browser to flash, and even how to get the query string parameters from the url into actionscript using ExternalInterface.
It has been a dilemma for many people to get this information into flash across browsers and without having to [...]
Interactive Spin Actionscript Tutorial
I have been thinking of different interactions that are possible with objects. If you’ve read this blog at all you’ll know that I’ve played with physics and gravity and throwing balls and bouncing balls and all sorts. But I hadn’t wrapped my head around an interactive spinner. I know it’d be easy to make a [...]
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Local Connection Actionscript – Communicate between seperate Flash files | Tutorial
Overview:
Local Connection
Communication between two separate flash files placed on the same page (or even running simultaneously on one machine) is a nice way to spread a project out. You can send variable, call functions, pretty much do anything in one swf from another. Easiest case use would be a navigation menu set up in one [...]
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Free IQ Player integrates Google Analytics for Video
As announced, the Free IQ Media Player now incorporates Google Analytics with it’s custom flash video player. Simply put, users may upload their own content (or even use anyone else’s content that is on Free IQ), embed it on their own sites and then view the tracking/logging/usage/analytics/metrics it their own Google analytics account. You don’t [...]
Detect Flash Player Version | Actionscript based detection method (as2)
looking for this in as3!? look no more Detect Flash Player Version | Actionscript based detection method (as3)
Overview
Recently I had a requirement that I had to detect which version of the flash player was currently installed. This is a normal thing, we do it all the time when embedding flash into html, we detect which [...]






















Using CSS Attribute Selectors to Stylize HTML | Style outbound links | Tutorial