Tag Archives: as2

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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Stock Flash Site, Introducing ‘BuyStockFlash.com’

By Evan Mullins | Published: 13 June 2009
Buy Stock Flash Sell & Buy Flash Buy or Sell, Start Now - Stock Flash – Royalty Free Stock Flash effects, Video, Audio The New Kid on the block… it’s good to see some competition coming to the stock flash world. BuyStockFlash is revving it up. They are positioned to provide a place where flash-ers can upload components, templates, [...]
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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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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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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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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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