Tag Archives: actionscript

How to use fullscreen in AS3 | Stage Display State Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 23 March 2009
One of the best features of the flash player if you’re doing video is the fullscreen functionality. It has been a question I’ve heard repeatedly. There are limits to what you can do in fullscreen. Such as minimal keyboard support while in fullscreen. But it is perfect for a video player! Who doesn’t want to [...]
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Fullscreen in AS3 Tutorial | Plus Firefox Flash bug when enter fullscreen keyboard events fired

By Evan Mullins | Published: 20 March 2009
To view the full fullscreen tutorial go here: How to use fullscreen in AS3 | Stage Display State Tutorial Sucks when you seem to have a bug in your code somewhere so you dissect your code over and over and are convinced that according to your code, everything should be fine, so you come back later [...]
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Random Movement | Brownian revisited for as3

By Evan Mullins | Published: 10 February 2009
I have had feedback that certain random movements I program are a bit “jumpy”. Such as my old brownian movement tutorial and I really noticed it in my last tutorial, the parallax 3d depth effect tutorial. I’ve been thinking about it and looking around at some code and now have this updated brownian movement [...]
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Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! | Review

By Evan Mullins | Published: 8 February 2009
Keith Peter’s Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! Can I just say WOW! Being a student of art and animation before turning to the flash world, I love how Keith is able to explain programming in terms that are very easy to understand and follow. I’ve been a huge fan of his since I first [...]
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How to as3 resize a movieClip and constrain proportions | Actionscript Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 13 January 2009
I’ve had that exact task numerous time while scripting actionscript. I have a source image loaded externally or a mc within the program and I need to fit it into a certain area (width x height) but keep the aspect ratio the same or as photoshop calls it “constrain proportions”. I’ve done this with fancy [...]
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asfunction (TextEvent.LINK) Tutorial for AS3 | Flash HTML Link to call actionscript function | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 31 December 2008
Overview Earlier I wrote a tutorial article about asfunction in as2. Now that I’ m into as3, surprise surprise asfunction has been depreciated and now to replace it is the LINK TextEvent. Dispatched when a user clicks a hyperlink in an HTML-enabled text field, where the URL begins with “event:”. The remainder of the URL [...]
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StomperNet Strikes Again! with FormulaFIVE

By Evan Mullins | Published: 19 December 2008
StomperNet has been a ‘buzz’. After Andy’s ‘Mea Culpa‘ why wouldn’t it be… But this is so much better and bigger, learning many lessons from the last launch – StomperNet strikes again! Teamed up with Paul Lemberg a new product called FormulaFIVE (F5 for short). Just launched a video to excite the industry! So check out stomperf5.com now!
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Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner’s Guide | Book Review

By Evan Mullins | Published: 5 December 2008
Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser’s Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner’s Guide. This book is published by O’Reilly and is part of the Adobe Developer Library. This book was a great way for me to move into as3. I’m coming from a visual design background with little formal programming training, to know more of my background check my [...]
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