Tag Archives: flex

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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Actionscript Drag & Drop Tutorial | Vertical and Horizontal Flash Sliders

By Evan Mullins | Published: 18 May 2009
A specific use of drag and drop which is a bit more complicated than your average drag & drop needs is a slider. You can use components, but I usually prefer using my own graphics and code, partly because the components tend to bloat the filesize of the swf and partly because that’s just [...]
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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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How to use fullscreen in AS3 | Stage Display State Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 23 March 2009
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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Fullscreen in AS3 Tutorial | Plus Firefox Flash bug when enter fullscreen keyboard events fired

By Evan Mullins | Published: 20 March 2009
To view the full fullscreen tutorial go here: How to use fullscreen in AS3 | Stage Display State Tutorial Sucks when you seem to have a bug in your code somewhere so you dissect your code over and over and are convinced that according to your code, everything should be fine, so you come back later [...]
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Random Movement | Brownian revisited for as3

By Evan Mullins | Published: 10 February 2009
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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asfunction (TextEvent.LINK) Tutorial for AS3 | Flash HTML Link to call actionscript function | Tutorial

By Evan Mullins | Published: 31 December 2008
Overview Earlier I wrote a tutorial article about asfunction in as2. Now that I’ m into as3, surprise surprise asfunction has been depreciated and now to replace it is the LINK TextEvent. Dispatched when a user clicks a hyperlink in an HTML-enabled text field, where the URL begins with “event:”. The remainder of the URL [...]
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