Tag Archives: actionscript

Flashvars and as3

By Evan Mullins | Published: 11 December 2009
Flashvars and actionscript 3! Flashvar is a way that in your html embed codes (object tags) you can send variables and values into your swf file. These variables can then be grabbed internally and used your programming! Examples of these could be images that you want to use in your swf but don’t want to [...]
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Tutorial to Create a Responsive Image Scroller in ActionScript 3.0

By Evan Mullins | Published: 26 August 2009
I’ve written a tutorial which is published over at flash.tutsplus. This tutorial demonstrates how to create a horizontally scrolling image viewer and covers xml parsing, loading and resizing external images, and creating intuitive and responsive scrolling!
So check out the Tutorial to Create a Responsive Image Scroller in ActionScript 3.0 [...]
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Stomper999

By Evan Mullins | Published: 24 July 2009
Interactive Design project for StomperNet’s tease of the announced reveal on 09/09/09 at 09:09:09! “Online Marketing Changes Forever!” Wanted it to be unexpected, and I think we hit it! Check it out live at stomper999.com! Details: For this project I used flash, html, css and javascript. Tweener for the fading effects. Found a nice stock flash from flashDen for [...]
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Forthcoming Actionscript Image Scroller Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 14 July 2009
Here is a preview of a file I’m writing a tutorial for. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it deals with many normal tasks and will show my process a bit. This tutorial will show how to create a horizontally scrolling image viewer. It will cover xml loading & parsing, loading & resizing external images to fit [...]
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Stock Flash Site, Introducing ‘BuyStockFlash.com’

By Evan Mullins | Published: 13 June 2009
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Actionscript Drag & Drop Tutorial | Vertical and Horizontal Flash Sliders

By Evan Mullins | Published: 18 May 2009
A specific use of drag and drop which is a bit more complicated than your average drag & drop needs is a slider. You can use components, but I usually prefer using my own graphics and code, partly because the components tend to bloat the filesize of the swf and partly because that’s just [...]
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Flash Video Issue: loadbar (size) vs playbar (time) usability

By Evan Mullins | Published: 1 May 2009
This deals with some issues I’m having with the seekbar of a player. The seekbar is the area that displays the video time as a bar that shows your current position/percentage of the video, it can also display the loaded portion of the video among other things as well. Including the video players I’ve made, [...]
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Flash Drag and Drop Tutorial | startDrag Actionscript

By Evan Mullins | Published: 23 April 2009
I find that Drag and Drop is the most intuitive form of user interaction (at least using a mouse). Actionscript has some of this functionality built in, with the interactive functions startDrag and stopDrag, these can help make our coding pretty easy. If you are transitioning from as2, the code was incredibly simple: Actionscript2 123456on (press) {   [...]
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