Tag Archives: flash

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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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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APB Website | Before and After

By Evan Mullins | Published: 2 September 2008
APB are the guys who organize public speakers, whoever you saw speaking at the last graduation or other ceremony was probably done through the American Program Bureau. They have connections! Many many people, from movie stars, to famous writers, to nobel peace prize winers! So for your next party, give them a try. They had [...]
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Google Indexes SWFs and external content | Fleximagically Searchable | Ryan Stewart’s Flex SEO Contest

By Evan Mullins | Published: 15 July 2008
Ryan has announced a contest to investigate how Google is actually crawling swfs. He introduced the term “fleximagically searchable” to be included in external content, which is then loaded into the Flex swf. Hoping that google will read the external source file through the swf. Also testing how this shows up in the search results. [...]
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