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Flashvars and as3

By Evan Mullins | Published: 11 December 2009
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

By Evan Mullins | Published: 26 August 2009
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

By Evan Mullins | Published: 14 July 2009
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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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 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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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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