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  • Local Connection Actionscript – Communicate between seperate Flash files | Tutorial

    October 5, 2010

    Local Connection Communication between two separate flash files placed on the same page (or even running simultaneously on one machine) is a nice way to spread a project out. You can send variable, call functions, pretty much do anything in one swf from another. Easiest case use would be a navigation menu set up in…

  • Style-my-tooltips jQuery plugin

    October 4, 2010

    By malihu | Published: September 26, 2010 A simple jQuery plugin to better style native browser tooltips. Small in size (3kb) script to enhance the look of tooltips. It works just like browser’s native tooltips with few options and styling via CSS. By default, the script applies to any element with a “title” attribute like…

  • FluidGrid Flash image Gallery

    October 1, 2010

    By malihu | Published: August 6, 2010 A dynamic Flash-xml driven image gallery, fully customizable through javascript variables within the html. View Tutorial (Source: http://manos.malihu.gr/)

  • Flash background with html content

    September 30, 2010

    By malihu | Published: August 29, 2010 Set a flash fullscreen background with html content on top and customize it within html via SWFObject variables. View tutorial (source: http://manos.malihu.gr)

  • Create a 360° panorama viewer with AS3

    September 25, 2010

    1. Create a new flash file (Actionscript 3.0) and save it as panorama.fla. 2. Rename “layer 1″ to “preload”. With the Text tool selected put a Text box in the middle of the stage. Set its type as Dynamic text and give it an instance name of “percent”. 3. Next create an “actions” layer and…

  • Creating a Flash Lite Game – Tutorial

    September 14, 2010

    Making rich media for mobile consumption has never been easier since the release of the Flash Lite player for mobile devices. You can make a vector graphics game that could be played on any device regardless of its operating system or screen resolution easily as long as that device is equipped with the Flash Lite…

  • Using CSS in AS3

    September 7, 2010

    Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are simple code sheets that are used to configure the visual look of pages and texts on the web. It could be used in Flash projects to format the way text fields look in Flash. Using CSS in Flash provides a number of advantages such as being able to customize your…

  • Create amazing cosmic-inspired scene in Adobe Photoshop CS5

    September 5, 2010

    In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to use fashion photography and various techniques to create a cosmic-inspired scene in Adobe Photoshop CS5. Layered PSD file included. Let’s get started! View Tutorial

  • Generating thumbnail previews using progressive flvs

    September 4, 2010

    We probably all know by now how to play a progressive flv without Flashcom: nc = new NetConnection(); nc.connect(null); ns = new NetStream(my_nc); ns.setBufferTime(0.1); // small buffer to limit motion in preview my_video.attachVideo(ns); // my_video is a video object on stage ns.play(thefile); To turn this example into a thumbnail preview of the actual flv you…

  • Building an Arithmetic Quiz in Flash CS3: Using Textboxes

    September 3, 2010

    There are several methods in ActionScript for dealing with time. We have shown before how to find a user’s response time using the getTimer() method as we did in the enanced (final) version of the Arithmetic Quiz from the tutorial, “Using Textboxes in an Arithmetic Quiz” in our Basic section. In the present tutorial, we…