Category Archives: tutorial

Distance Formula in Actionscript Tutorial | Pythagorean theorem

By Evan Mullins | Published: 15 February 2008
Overview To find the distance of any two points on an axis is easy, just subtract them. But what about when you have to find the distance of something not on the axis (a diagonal)? Find the distance between any two points with the Pythagorean theorem. This is an old problem we can look to history [...]
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Actionscript Javascript Communication | ExternalInterface call and addCallback Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 1 February 2008
Overview: Using ExternalInterface.addCallback() we can expose an actionscript function and make it available to javascript. This would be helpful to have your webpage with embedded flash communicate to your flash swf file and even control it with javascript! Say we wanted to have buttons in the html page that would control an object in the flash. [...]
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Integrate Google Analytics with Flash | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 28 January 2008
The results are in and the requested topic is “Integrate Google Analytics into Flash.” The poll has been reset and is ready to recieve your post requests, so keep voting! It’s located in the side bar! Overview: Tracking your visitors and attempting to better understand them is a large part of even having content on the web. [...]
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Customize the Right-click menu in Flash | ContextMenuItem Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 21 January 2008
Overview: Flash give publishers the opportunity to customize the right-click menu which pops up in the swf file with a context menu item in actionscript. ContextMenuItem 1ContextMenuItem(caption:String, callbackFunction:Function, [separatorBefore:Boolean], [enabled:Boolean], [visible:Boolean]) Creates a new ContextMenuItem object that can be added to the 1ContextMenu.customItems array. Steps: The menu item has a caption, which is displayed to the user in the right click menu. It [...]
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Get current url to Flash swf using an External Interface call

By Evan Mullins | Published: 2 January 2008
Overview: Many have struggled with the task of getting you swf to read or get the current url showing in the browser, the html page the browser is at which has the swf embedded. Not to be confused with the _root._url which returns the path of the swf file. This would be helpful to know if [...]
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PHP Menu Include function to reuse an html block on multiple pages

By Evan Mullins | Published: 21 December 2007
Overview: When making websites frequently we want a navigation bar or menu to show on every page. Rather than repeating the code on every single page, which is virtually impossible to update and maintain, or worse, using frames, use PHP to automate this and build each page dynamically. PHP will just paste in the navigation or [...]
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NavBar Menu List with CSS

By Evan Mullins | Published: 11 December 2007
The Overview: An interactive navigation bar using CSS with rounded corners. Just put the html as an unordered list and your navigation links as list items and the CSS will do the rest! As shown here! The css will tell the browser to display this special unordered list as the menu. This utilizes a technique [...]
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Javascript Code to show a hidden element | Display and Visibility

By Evan Mullins | Published: 30 November 2007
The Overview: Here’s a quick javascript trick to control display settings. See it in action here: jsToggle. All we do is set the display of an element to none, and then use a javascript function to toggle the display when a user clicks something else. The Steps: 1. So pick an id and set it’s style=”display:none” (if this is [...]
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