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Flash XML processing is not a complicated task at all. In this article I will show you how to load and process XML files via actionscript.

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Updated: FlashDir.com is the biggest and most comprehensive Macromedia Flash Resource Directory on the Internet. With over 1000+ resources, FlashDir.com has become the #1 source for all your things Flash related. (topdownloads.net update test)

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Table Enigne for easy making of data forms, data view, grids and tables in easy use like Tables in HTML that can contains any type of Flash DisplayObject. Written in ActionScript 3.

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In my attempt to dynamically create musical instrument sounds in Flash, I have created this wave player. The idea was to draw out waves manually, to get an idea of what they sounded like. It's somewhat processor heavy.

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A Flash / ActionScript class that you can use it to add text into a text field with buttons and a Scroll bar, in your Flash presentation. The text can be loaded from an external file or added directly in the script.

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This script generates images (known as "Captcha's") which contain security codes used for protecting a form from spam bots. By encoding a 'password' inside an image and asking the user to re-enter what they see you can verify the user is a human and not automated software submitting your form.... (show more)

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PhpCaptcha is a library for generating visual and audio CAPTCHAs (completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart). It supports multiple random TrueType fonts, character rotation, font size selection, custom background and character set selection.... (show more)

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The AS3 Switch Case compares a value against a number of other values, executing code dependent on the matching value. The AS3 Switch Case can be used with Flash, Flex, or AIR as all of these are programmed with Actionscript 3.

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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 how I am, I like to make it myself.... (show more)

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Often we need to have different parts of a website talk to each other. This can get tricky when we are using multiple technologies and need the communication in real-time. Going from flash to html is done through javascript on the browser side and in actionscript we use something called ExternalInterface. The ExternalInterface class is an application programming interface that enables straightforward communication between ActionScript and the SWF container– for example, an HTML page with JavaScript or a desktop application that uses Flash Player to display a SWF file. We can send things form actionscript to javascript as well as from the html and javascript into flash and actionscript.... (show more)

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This is more than just setting the width and height of an object, because that way the image is easily skewed and the natural proportions are messed up. If you want to just use scale you need to know the dimensions of the image being resized, and that’s just not scalable (no pun intended).... (show more)

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Allowing users to use the keyboard as well as the mouse is a great way to incite interaction with your flash. This tutorial will show how to code it and what you can do with some keyboard events. This changed with actionscript 3, note this tutorial is AS3. altKey (Boolean) Indicates whether the Alt key is active (true) or inactive (false). charCode (uint) Contains the character code value of the key pressed or released. ctrlKey (Boolean) Indicates whether the Control key is active (true) or inactive (false). keyCode (uint) The key code value of the key pressed or released. KeyboardEvent keyLocation (uint) Indicates the location of the key on the keyboard. KeyboardEvent shiftKey (Boolean) Indicates whether the Shift key modifier is active (true) or inactive (false). ... (show more)

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Many have struggled with the task of getting you swf to read or get the current url showing in the browser, the html page the browser is at which has the swf embedded. Not to be confused with the _root._url which returns the path of the swf file. This would be helpful to know if someone is embedding your swfs on their site, or even customize your swf depending on which page it resides on. There is a pretty simple, yet virtually undocumented way to do this. We have to use javascript by calling External Interface and get the url from the DOM. Window.location.href. Then we must call the toString() function only because ExternalInterface.call requires a function rather than only reading a static property.... (show more)

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I’ve put together this flash to show how to set a movieclip to a certain color, I’ve had to do this at runtime and had to go by different values such as a hex number, rgb values and have even wanted to just set a random color, so this example does them all! It’s even nice for translating a Hexadecimal color into RGB color. Flash uses a Transform object to control certain properties of movie clips. To set color we need to use a Transform object as well as a ColorTransform object. ColorTransform objets are used to, you guessed it, tell the Transform object what color we want to set our clip to. It was a little unintuitive for me to learn, but now it makes sense, or at least enough sense to use.... (show more)

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This tutorial / how to / example will show how to get the current url from the browser to flash, and even how to get the query string parameters from the url into actionscript using ExternalInterface.

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Using ExternalInterface.addCallback() we can expose an actionscript function and make it available to javascript. This would be helpful to have your webpage with embedded flash communicate to your flash swf file and even control it with javascript! Say we wanted to have buttons in the html page that would control an object in the flash. Communication is a two-way road so wouldn’t it be great to be able to go the other way as well, you can! That is the main function of ExternalInterface! In this example/tutorial I will explain both directions of communication with flash and javascript!... (show more)

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With this Action Script 3 class you can convert complex XML structures to Object instances, transforming any attribute or node value to Boolean or Number values if applicable. It's not necessary to cast the values manually . It gives you the possibility to parse only the first level of the input XML or the entire tree.... (show more)

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Ever wanted to change the dimensions of a flash movie on-the-fly without refreshing the page? If yes, read on the tutorial!

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Actionscript is a scripting language used with Flash. Actionscripting was developed with the guidelines from ECMAScript. Even though introduced with simple commands, later it was upgraded to a complete scripting language later. Actionscript is a scripting language used with Flash. Actionscripting was developed with the guidelines from ECMAScript. Even though introduced with simple commands, later it was upgraded to a complete scripting language later. This is the basis for making flash animations very interactive. The Data types in Actionscripting are similar to that of Java's data type. Now these has variables, expressions, operators, if statements, and loops. ... (show more)

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Using this flash lesson, You will see how to create helicopter text banner using some special adobe after effects tricks and flash.