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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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Stomper999

Interactive Design project for StomperNet’s tease of the announced reveal on 09/09/09 at 09:09:09! “Online Marketing Changes Forever!” Wanted it to be unexpected, and I think we hit it! Check it out live at stomper999.com! Details: For this project I used flash, html, css and javascript. Tweener for the fading effects. Found a nice stock flash from flashDen for [...]
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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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Actionscript Drag & Drop Tutorial | Vertical and Horizontal Flash Sliders

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 Drag and Drop Tutorial | startDrag Actionscript

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

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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