Tag Archives: actionscript

Preloader Stats File @ FlashDen

By Evan Mullins | Published: 24 November 2008
A preloader bar that gives full stats, speed, kb, and even remaining download time!
Preloader with Stats Clean slick preloader. Rounded bar with gradient fill and bevel and glow filter. All actionscript driven, no animations to bloat file size. Rounded corners don’t distort as width changes. Includes loading statistics for download. Calculates [...]
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Detect Flash Player Version | Actionscript based detection method (as3)

By Evan Mullins | Published: 19 November 2008
See my previous post about how to do this with as2: Detect Flash Player Version | Actionscript based detection method (as2) 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, [...]
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Copy TextField text to System clipboard | Actionscript (AS2 + AS3) Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 12 November 2008
Overview Integrating the clipboard of the operating system with your flash projects is sometimes essential. It’s a very simple and boils down to one basic method… System.setClipboard(). I’ve found a couple other things help the user experience though, such as selecting the text that gets copied and giving the user some sort of feedback to let [...]
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ColorTransform | RGB, Hex and random colors | Actionscript Color Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 21 October 2008
Overview Color can sometimes make or break your design. I’ve put together this flash to show how to set a movieclip to a certain color, I’ve had to do this at runtime and had to go by different values such as a hex number, rgb values and have even wanted to just set a random color, [...]
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Voters Aide | Prioritize the Issues this Election | Interactive Flash App

By Evan Mullins | Published: 15 October 2008
To accompany the last presidential debate, I ask a question: Who to vote for? It’s not just about what party you’re affiliated with, who you agree with more on an issue or which candidate you understand better… it’s a combination of them all. It’s more important how a candidate can handle the different issues facing us today [...]
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Report from Google Analytics Event Tracking Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 11 October 2008
Here are some screenshots from my example tutorial of integrating Flash with google analytics event tracking showing actionscript to use for event tracking in flash . To get to your Event Tracking Reports (once it is enabled) you just click on the Content section in the nav list and then Event Tracking drilldown will give [...]
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Event Tracking with Google Analytics | Flash Integration | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 3 October 2008
Many have read my Integrate Google Analytics with Flash Tutorial in which I express enthusiasm for the new event tracking at google analytics! Well, it’s been a while, but I was admitted to the Beta testing group! So I’ve now had the chance to play with event tracking a bit and wanted to publish my [...]
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Rounded Bar Percentage Preloader for Flash Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 22 September 2008
I’ve had a couple inquiries about how to do a simple preloader in Flash. The technique and also the actionscript which implements the technique. So here is a percentage preloader example with source code and a source file to play with. Overview So the idea of a preloader is to hold the swf until the file has [...]
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