Tag Archives: flash

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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StomperNet’s Stomper Universe | Interactive Flash Site Map

By Evan Mullins | Published: 25 June 2008
StomperNet now has a site map. Only it’s much bigger than just a site map, we’re calling it Stomper Universe! It contains all the pieces parts that make up StomperNet. It links to different sites, video series, tools, and more by giving a 3D interactive space to inspect the thumbnails and click through to the [...]
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Brownian Movement in Actionscript | Random Motion Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 24 June 2008
Overview Having things drift around or move randomly has always interested me. Having an animation that is never going to be the exact same thing is very exciting. The focus turns from key-ing exact animations to programming a feel and letting the animations take car of themselves! One type of seemingly random motion is Brownian motion. [...]
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Style htmlText with CSS in your Actionscript | Flash/CSS Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 5 June 2008
Overview In flash you can have text areas that are rendered as html. You can also apply formatting styles to this html. This will show a simple example on how to apply css to html text in flash. I’ll do a simple anchor tag style to show you the ropes. We’ll style a link to be [...]
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Calling actionscript functions through HTML text | asfunction Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 30 May 2008
Add this to the list of things I should have already known! Story I’ve got an html enabled text box and was trying to devise a way that I could have a hyperlink anchor tag not link to a webpage but actually do something flash. It didn’t seem possible, and I looked through all the different html [...]
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Intro to Flashvars | Passing variables to actionscript from the html embed | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 22 May 2008
I’ve had a couple special requests to explain flashvars and how to use it and show it in action. Overview The property “FlashVars” can be used to import root level variables to the flash movie or swf. The flashvars propery is used in codes for embedding flash in the html page. The string of variables passed in [...]
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Adobe Flash Player 10 | Astro | Beta Release

By Evan Mullins | Published: 15 May 2008
As you may have heard today Adobe released Astro, Flash Player 10 Beta! Highlight Features: Create Custom Filters and Effects (with Pixel Blender) Performance Boosts (GPU blitting and compositing) Drawing API Enhancements Vector Data Types New Highly Flexible Text Engine 3D Support and Effects Automatic Variable Bitrates for video streams Larger Bitmap Support Better File Reference (user uploading) Context Menu Enhancements UBUNTU Press Release Official Download at Adobe Labs [...]
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StomperNet Going Natural 3 Web Design

By Evan Mullins | Published: 11 May 2008
Site built for Going Natural 3, free series of videos to promote the re-opening of StomperNet. Includes flash video and html template design in drupal all styled with custom made themes and css. Users were prompted to subscribe with email address and then allowed to view the premium video content and comment. Site discontinued, but [...]
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