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  • Carve Up a Video in Real Time With AS3

    August 2, 2011

    Hello, code freaks! This tutorial will show you how to split a running video into blocks as if it has exploded. And all this using just ActionScript. For this tutorial we’ll use the camera as the video source, so you can see the changes live. View Tutorial

  • Thinking in Commands: Part 1 of 2

    August 1, 2011

    Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Activetuts+. This tutorial was first published in March, 2010, and is the first part of a series. Simple, maintainable code is beautiful. However, when we have a sequences of actions that need to trigger each other, our code can…

  • Fixing Bugs in AS3: Introduction

    July 30, 2011

    In this tutorial, I’ll describe some of the basic information you need to debug your Flash applications. Finding and resolving errors in your ActionScript is no small task, so this is actually just the first article of a series. In this installment, we’ll take a look at some of the general things you can do…

  • Download Files Via SWFs Using FileReference

    July 29, 2011

    This Quick Tip covers how to use AS3′s FileReference class in order to download and save external files from Flash RIAs without the need for server side scripts like PHP. All we need is the path of the file that we want to let the user download. View tutorial

  • Create a Dynamic Slideshow with Actionscript 3.0 and XML – Part 3

    July 13, 2011

    Time to implement labels and navigation to our Slideshow Application. We’ll go over a lot in this third and final part of the series. This screencast is almost one and a half hours in total, so sit back, open up your files from Part 2 and let’s dig in! View Tutorial

  • Create a Responsive Image Scroller in ActionScript 3.0

    July 12, 2011

    Quick Introduction I’m a firm believer in learning by coding and tinkering. So in this tutorial, I’m stating what to do and then showing the equivalent code; please dig into the code, change things and tinker – I think that’s one of the best ways to learn! I expect that you have a basic understanding…

  • Using ‘Google Maps’ New Features for Flash

    June 28, 2011

    After such a positive response to my first tutorial Implement a Map Using the Google Map API for Flash I decided to write a second. Since that first tut the Google Map API has been updated, allowing developers to (amongst other things) add 3D viewing to maps. This is a great feature and during this…

  • Making a Beautiful HTML5 Portfolio

    June 20, 2011

    In today’s tutorial we will be making a beautiful HTML5 portfolio powered by jQuery and the Quicksand plugin. You can use it to showcase your latest work and it is fully customizable, so potentially you could expand it to do much more. View tutorial Source (http://tutorialzine.com/)

  • Web browser in Air with flex

    June 14, 2011

    The HTML component displays full HTML content within your AIR applications. In this tutorial we are going to build our own web browser with an adress bar and forward and back history controls. View tutorial

  • Create a Dynamic Slideshow with ActionScript 3.0 and XML

    June 4, 2011

    In this screencast I’ll show you how to create a dynamic slideshow using ActionScript 3.0 and how to grab the images from an xml file. We’ll keep the FLA empty except for the path to our Document Class and also create a custom class that will act as the engine for the slideshow. This is…