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Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide
2008-05-31 18:35:00 In this book, authors Rich Shupe and Zevan Rosser share the knowledge they've gained from their years as multimedia developers/designers and teachers. Learning ActionScript 3.0 gives you a solid foundation in the language of Flash and demonstrates how you can use it for practical, everyday projects. The authors do more than just give you a collection of sample scripts. Written for those of you new to ActionScript 3.0, the book describes how ActionScript and Flash work, giving you a clear look into essential topics such as logic, event handling, displaying content, migrating legacy projects to ActionScript 3.0, classes, and much more. You will learn important techniques through hands-on exercises, and then build on those skills as chapters progress. ActionScript 3.0 represents a significant change for many Flash users, and a steeper learning curve for the uninitiated. This book will help guide you through a variety of scripting scenarios. Rather than relying heavily on prior know...
Tutorial | Display Digg Posts Using ActionScript 3
2008-05-16 15:26:00 In this tutorial you will learn how to build an application which will display a Digg post which will be determined randomly. This will be built using Flash 9 and ActionScript 3. If you are still working in AS2, I recommend this tutorial.
Tutorial | ActionScript 3 Depths
2008-05-15 20:27:00 Another cool tutorial (beginner level), by Craig Campbell showing in few steps how to handle / set the dephs in Flash with as3. Read tutorial and download support files
Source | Dynamic Dropdowns with external XML
2008-05-15 17:57:00 Cool code by Chris Brimelow, showing the dropdowns being populated dynamically with data from an external xml file. The xml data is captured in multidimensional arrays and fed to the combobox components. When you select a make in the first dropdown it populates the model dropdown with the appropriate models. View Example and Download Source ...
Lynda.com Actionscript 3.0 Projects Game Development
2008-05-09 15:55:00 Adobe Certified Instructor Todd Perkins makes ActionScript fun in ActionScript 3.0 Projects: Game Development . He explains the principles of game design and development, then shows how to overcome game-making challenges to create all kinds of games. Todd teaches developers how to deal with case sensitivity, create dynamically moving enemies, add event listeners, determine a ...
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Tutorial | From Flash to Flex: Creating ActionScript Components for Flex
2008-05-08 11:30:00 Do you want to develop applications more quickly, write cleaner code, and use external sources as the data that drives your applications? Kris Hadlock explains how to create an ActionScript component for Flex by using XML as a data source to offer reusability in your Flex applications. Read Tutorial and download support files ...
Tutorial | Tween Tricks in ActionScript 3 and Flash CS3
2008-05-07 16:16:00 Another great tutorial from Flash & Math presenting a “trick” that can be used to create a wide range of tween effects. This idea is used in other tutorial “Advanced and Experimental” section tutorial, Rotating 3D Objects with the Tween Class in ActionScript 3, but they highlight it here for the benefit of a wider ...
ActionScript 3/Flex Developer needed for Web Application by skitsanos
2008-05-06 00:53:00 We are looking for experienced ActionScript 3 developers to work on video driven web application. Required Experience in ActionScript 3, Adobe Flex, experience with video stream processing, cue points and rich media content... (Budget: $250-750, Jobs: Audio Services, Flash, Javascript, Video Services, XML)
Tutorial | AS3 Key Movement (Video Tutorial)
2008-05-05 11:00:00 Learn how to move a movieclip with the arrow keys using Actionscript 3.0.
Learning Flash and ActionScript
2008-05-04 01:31:00 For my job, I have to learn Flash and ActionScript. I’m slowly learning on my own. To do this, though, I had to watch videos and read books, which I’m not finished with yet. A couple of the books I have focus on animation/interactivity. If you’re wanting to purchase Flash and ActionScript books, try to go ...
Source Code | Exploding and Rebuilding an Image using PV3D
2008-05-02 16:01:00 You can find at this post of CS54, the source code which let’s you explode and rebuild the same image, using as3 and pv3d 2.0
Tutorial | An Image Exploding into Particles
2008-04-29 10:57:00 This tutorial, is one of the most impressive particles applications i’ve seen. In this application you see an explosion and particle effects coming from a simple image in a 3D environment. See the application demo, and read the author comments and notes.
Tutorial | Creating liquid GUIs with Flash and ActionScript 3.0
2008-04-28 22:24:00 By James O’Reilly jamesor.com With user experience expectations on the rise, developers increasingly are looking for ways to bring the rich experience of a desktop application to the web. This article is about developing dynamic graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that mold themselves intelligently to the size of the screen to meet users’ expectations. A liquid is a collection ...
Tutorial | Accessing displayObjects on the timeline after a gotoAndStop or
2008-04-24 10:47:00 Great tutorial by Scott Morgan, pointing one of the Adobe Flash bugs, and helping you to fix it. Everything is well explained and all the source code you need is there. Read Tutorial
Tip | Taking a snapshot of an flv
2008-04-23 16:18:00 I’ve seen this cool tip which let you create a snapshot preview of your flv at Dreaming In Flash. The following 3 simple lines of code, will enabled you to do it. video.attachNetStream( null ); bitmapData.draw( video ); video.attachNetStream ( myNetStreamObject );
Tutorial | Moving Based On Mouse Location using AS3
2008-04-23 12:30:00 Simple, short and nice tutorial by Lionel, taking you to learn a simple way to detect location differences and to make something move using that difference. Read tutorial and download support files
Tutorial | PV3D - How To Applying Shader Materials and Viewport Filters (Vi
2008-04-23 00:26:00 In addition to the post of Video Tutorials on PV3D, by Jim Foley, here are two new video tutorials: ? Applying Shader Materials (VIII) : View ? Applying Viewport Filters (IX) : View
Tutoria | FlashVars in AS3
2008-04-22 11:44:00 Learn the difference between using Flash Vars in AS2 and AS3, with this article by Tiago.
Tutorial | Actioncript 3.0 Introduction (Video Tutorial)
2008-04-22 09:30:00 In this tutorial we are going to create a timer and a function that will move the ball. Always use comments so that you know later what was going on and so that other people can follow your code. View the Tutorial
Source | Set of AS3 Particles source files
2008-04-21 15:45:00 Seb Lee Delisle, posted a full set of AS3 particles effects (9 in total), the same he shows at Toronto. As you know, his particle effects are really cool, and free. What are you waiting for? Go to his site, download the source, and start making your own particle effects. Then tell me what have ...
Tutorial | Flash video template: Dynamic video playlist AS3
2008-04-21 11:46:00 A greate article by Lisa Larson, explaining you how to publish multiple videos on the same web page?without authoring a new SWF for each one. It provides a template with instructions for both streaming and progressive delivery of your video to a customizable ...
FlashZXSpectrum48k - Flash 9 ActionScript 3.0 Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k emul
2008-04-19 11:59:00 Nice work! here
Tutorial | Create a full Flash site
2008-04-18 16:54:00 This a great tutorial teaching how you can create a complete Flash-based web-site from scratch. Read Tutorial and Download support files
Tutorial | Installing Papervision3D on Flash and Flex
2008-04-18 15:01:00 This is one of the best and complete articles available in the web, about how to start with PV3D in Flash and Flex. After reading this article you will for sure, able to start using this 3D engine. Read more
Tutorial | Set up a Flash MP3 interface
2008-04-18 00:02:00 Skip back and forth through your songs in style, while managing the track-list with an easily updatable XML file Using a bit of ActionScript and XML we?ll show you how to create a veritable stereophonic playground. These MP3s can be safely left to their own devices without screaming too loud, getting out of order or losing ...
Flash 3D List === Update===
2008-04-17 17:34:00 I’ve created a page of this list at the blog so you can easly track any new information on 3D. Tnx Jensa for your great support, by helping me to get this list more complete. In the last months everyone noticed that everyday, new components and frameworks on 3D have been developed and released to the Flash ...
Tutorial | Creating a Space Vortex Blast
2008-04-17 15:00:00 This tutorial will teach you how to create a cool animation of a space vortex blast using Photoshop and Flash. We will create the images of the space blast using Photoshop filters and then we will use Flash to animate those images to an animation that gives our explosion object the shaking effect to mimic ...
Tutorial | Rotating 3D Objects with the Tween Class in ActionScript 3
2008-04-17 12:00:00 Another great tutorial from Flash and Math, on 3D. This tutorial, will show you how to use the AS3 Tween class and its access to the built-in AS3 collection of ‘easing’ functions to produce interesting rotation effects for 3D objects. To illustrate the idea, we use the following example in which a hexagonal cylinder, drawn at ...
Tutorial | Skin A PV3D Cube Using MovieAssetMaterial
2008-04-17 11:58:00 A nice tutorial by FlashMech, will let you learn about the properties that can be used in the generic object that you pass in to the MaterialsList constructor as also on how to use a movieclip as a material through its linkage id using MovieAssetMaterial. Read Tutorial, and download support files ...
Flash Lite | Tips and Tricks
2008-04-16 19:43:00 Forum Nokia has a new article: Flash Lite Tips and Tricks ? This article gives some recommendations regarding performance improvements when using Flash Lite. Optimization efforts are needed in order to create a high-quality movie or application. The article covers both content optimization and Action Script optimization.?
Source Code - PV3D | WhiteVoid Clone by Craig
2008-04-15 21:10:00 Remember the awesome PV3D site Whitvoid? Craig try to duplicate it as his 1st Papervision 3D project. Moreover he made the source available, so if you want to investigate, modify or improve you download it here.
FreeSpin 3D - A very promissory 3D Flash Component
2008-04-15 11:26:00 Revolver has released in the last week, a Beta version of FreeSpin 3D which is completely free. This component is based on their OL3D technology. There are some good features i see in this component that worths to be mentioned, such as the ability to support in near future any 3d model (currently beta, just ...
Games: My First ActionScript 3 Game
2008-04-15 01:53:00 Been refurbishing my Flash actionscript skill again. After staying dormant some time I must say my skill gets little rusty but, nevertheless actionscript 3 is godsend. At first I hated the fact, I can't even control buttons and movieclips like I did in Actionscript 2 days but, once I've get used to it the resources from Actionscript classes become more and more useful to me. The best of all my
Tutorial | Loading an external .jpg, .png, or .gif bitmap image file in Ac
2008-04-14 21:10:00 In AS3, loading external images dynamically is done slightly differently than in ActionScript 2. Whereas in AS2, we could just use the loadMovie() method of the MovieClip class, this is no longer the case. Instead we have to use the Loader class, as well as the URLRequest class. This actually gives us more flexibility when ...
Tutorial | Progressive Flash Video Player
2008-04-11 13:18:00 As you all know, there is different ways to spread video over the web, the most common technologies are Windows Media and RealPlayer and don’t forget the MAC users using Quicktime. Either if you do Streaming or progressive download you always need a player that get’s the IP-videoinformation and converts to our known formats. In this two ...
Tutorial | Creating a Timer in ActionScript 3
2008-04-11 12:58:00 This tutorial will cover the basics of using the Date() class and the Timer() class in ActionScript 3. The Timer class, as you may know, is new to AS3. The ActionScript 2 equivalent of a Timer object would be the setInterval method, which is no longer available to us in AS3. So, with no further ...
Components | FLV / H.264 Player
2008-04-10 21:31:00 This FLV player is my week stock components choice. It plays YouTube streaming videos! and any kind of video file that Flash Player supports ( FLV / H.264 encoded video including MP4, M4V, M4A, MOV, Mp4v, F4V). The code is very clean and it’s easy to customize the player’s design. It supports multiple playlists! So if ...
Resources | Flint - A AS3 Particle System
2008-04-08 13:48:00 I just noticed that Richard released the last version of Flint. FYI Flint is an open-source project to create a versatile particle system in Actionscript 3. The aim is to create a system that handles the common functionality for all particle systems, has methods for common particle behaviour, and lets developers extend it easily with ...
Multiplayer papervision3D example with Red5
2008-04-07 18:35:00 Paul Tondeur developed a multiplayer environment with Red5 and Papervision3D. A nice start for game developers. Source code is also available.
Tutorial | Build a reusable Flash Lite 1.1 component
2008-04-07 12:55:00 Components and reusable code are important aspects to developing applications for any platform, including Flash Lite 1.1. Components speed up development and help make coding tasks easier. Even though Flash Lite 1.1 is not as robust for application development compared to higher versions, it is still useful to have Flash Lite 1.1 components and is ...
Tutorial | Cool particle effects in Flash
2008-04-04 17:03:00 Creating a particle system in Flash may sound difficult, but as Seb Lee-Delisle shows you, it?s not rocket science. This tutorial is a great way of getting into programming simple physics and movement. More importantly, it shows that you can produce some beautiful particle effects with straightforward ActionScript. Get the support files and tutorial ...
easy plasma effect and source!
2008-04-04 13:29:00 Agit8 as great article about a very very nice plasma effect. The demo has 3 sliders you can use to change the plasma effect your own, try it here. Also, he made the source available.
Tutorial | Using XML in Flash CS3
2008-04-03 11:25:00 This great (7 page) tutorial from Kirupa.com shows you how to use XML in Flash CS3 - which involves using some ActionScript 3.0 code. If you?ve used XML in the earlier days of Flash, some of this will feel familiar to you. However, Kirupa shows you some time-saving techniques that ActionScript 3.0 allows you to ...
Tutorial | Camera-motion controlled ball
2008-04-02 20:48:00 Milan Toth wrote a great tutorial explaining you how to make a very cool camera-motion controlled ball. Read Tutorial and download sorce files
Component | FlexSpellCheck with source code
2008-04-02 20:26:00 Today i’ve find this nice flex component using the google spell checker service API. Features used in the component The Flex SpellCheckComponent extends the mx.controls.PopUpButton control. You can use it with a TextInput, TextArea or RichTextEditor control. The component can be instantiated with MXML or Actionscript, and will use the Google service URL directly if a proxy url ...
Flash vCam AS3
2008-04-02 14:21:00 Using the vCam, a developer can animate a single vCam instance on the timeline to create the same pan. Simply place the vCam on the left side of the stage and create a motion tween to the right side of the stage. Publish out the file and the scene pans with a single ...
Improving Flex application performance using the Flash Player cache
2008-04-02 10:48:00 This article shows you how to take advantage of the new Adobe Flash Player cache using Adobe Flex 3. I take a look at how to use this approach in both Flex Builder and the Flex SDK command-line tools.
Tutorial | Fire Effect example with source
2008-04-02 08:34:00 I’m putting this post on the tutorials cat, because it explains the procedures to make a nice fire effect. Although as the article is so simple, you can call it as a tip with source, lol. Ricardo Cabello (mr.d00b ) posted the source at his blog with a little explanation(not much to explain, lol). ...
Source | Accordion Menu in AS3 v1
2008-04-01 14:44:00 Paul Ortchanian has posted a great example of an AS3 Accordion Menu. Check the demo and code
Flash CS3 Tutorial | Using a motion guide
2008-04-01 10:59:00 Corey shows us how to animate an object in Flash CS3 using a motion guide. RC shows us how to install the Lorem and More extension for Dreamweaver CS3. Corey shows us the basics in text wrapping in InDesign. Plus a bunch of tips. Use Rotation to rotate the symbol throughout Use easing to enhance the physics ... |
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