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Flashvars and as3

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

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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Forthcoming Actionscript Image Scroller Tutorial

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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Flash Video Issue: loadbar (size) vs playbar (time) usability

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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How to use fullscreen in AS3 | Stage Display State Tutorial

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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#tweetcoding

If you didn’t know, Grant Skinner has introduced an interesting competition called tweetcoding! Mixing as3 with the 140 character limit of tweeting he calls for the community to tweet visually interesting source code. I’ve played a bit with it and tweeted my first #tweetcoding entry! See more tweetcoding here 1g.clear(),o[++i]={x:mouseX,y:mouseY,c:r()*0xFFFFFF};for each(k in o)k.c*=.9,g.beginFill(k.c),ls(i,k.c),g.drawCircle(k.x,k.y,1),g.endFill(); Want to see my entry? Here [...]
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Random Movement | Brownian revisited for as3

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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Dynamic 3d space | Floating Sketches Tutorial

I’ve had quite a few questions about how to make depth in flash. Earlier (like, 2 years ago) I put up an experiment file to give some interactive depth to some sketchbook sketches, see Floating Sketches. I’ve finally gotten around to translating that into as3. It’s still the same basic idea, Create layers of levels, [...]
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