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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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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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Interactive Image Viewer v1 @ FlashDen

By Evan Mullins | Published: 17 September 2008
I’ve re-purposed an old project of mine, the interactive pog portfolio viewer, to FlashDen. I call it the pog portfolio because each work is represented by a circle, or pog, and you play ith it in the “bay” with different interactive physics configurations. When you click a pog you can view a close up image [...]
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Actionscript Key Listener Tutorial AS3

By Evan Mullins | Published: 1 August 2008
Overview Allowing users to use the keyboard as well as the mouse is a great way to incite interaction with your flash. This tutorial will show how to code it and what you can do with some keyboard events. This changed with actionscript 3, note this tutorial is AS3. altKeY (Boolean) Indicates whether the Alt key is [...]
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Actionscript to Reference Dynamically created instances Flash Movie Clip | Array notation | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 14 July 2008
Overview: Often I’ve had some dynamically created movieclip and then wanted to reference it in my code. This is hard to do if it is named dynamically as well, such as with an incrementing variable. If you use one (or more) variable to name an instance in run time, you can’t always know what it will [...]
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