New Scripts | Flash

A simple easy to setup and use Facebook Connect component for your Flex 4 Applications. This component will let your users interact with the facebook graph api platform in your flex, or air applications. Originally made for flex 3, and recently ported to flex 4., pretty straight forward, this particular app lets you connect,and it grabs all of your facebook friends and lists them in the advanced datagrid. This should be an easy way to get started with building facebook applications, for the flash platform.

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.

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.

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.

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).

The property “FlashVars” can be used to import root level variables to the flash movie or swf. The flashvars propery is used in codes for embedding flash in the html page. The string of variables passed in as flashvars, will be imported into the top level of the movie when it is first instantiated. Variables are created before the first frame of the SWF is played. The format of the string is a set of name=value combinations separated by ampersand (&) symbols.

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.

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.

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!

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).

Flash Player 10 introduces basic 3D capabilities which this sample application uses. To test the code, you will need to be able to publish for Flash Player 10, thus Flash CS4 or above is required. This tutorial will let you create a 3D Flow menu within minutes. Source files included for download

This component allows you to display news captions by different categories. The names and the news captions for every category are customizable in the newsbanner.xml file located in the XML. Each news caption contains information about the small thumbnail image and the bigger image which appears on the left side of the news banner. They can be the same or different images. It's your choice. The title and the description also can be different in the both areas.

This Flash Mp3 Player comes with a special feature... speed pitching. It supports the basic functions of an mp3 player: - play/pause - next/prev - timer/total time - draggable volume bar - draggable progress bar - sound visualizer The sound visualizer height reacts when you drag the volume bar, based on the bit rate and speed of your song.

This Flash Mp3 Player comes with a lot of features which can easily be changed using the XML file. You can choose colors, speeds and settings. What's nice about this mp3 player is that it automatically generates the playlist from your songs folder and it displays the song's artist and name from the ID3 tags (which you can edit with Winamp or iTunes for example). It supports the basic functions of an mp3 player: - play/pause - next/prev - timer/total time - draggable volume bar - draggable progress bar - sound visualizer - reads ID3 tags for song's artist and name The sound visualizer height reacts when you drag the volume bar, based on the bit rate of your song.

This is fully customizable MP3 Player, built with support for multiple songs. Everything is XML customizable, including size, colors, speed and transition effects. This Flash Mp3 Player contains a handful of features and settings. It is easy to use the player in your Flash projects or as an independent Flash mp3 player on your website. It is as easy as moving some actionscript files around, and dragging the movieclip containing the Flash player in your Flash file. We provide precise instructions in the help file that comes with the download.

This is a basic send to friend form, with a minimalist design. By editing the XML file, you can customize the position of the fields, the colors, the size and the text as well. The validation is done based on the type of content the user has to add, such as strings, numbers or an email address. The user is requested to fill all fields, and if he tries to submit incomplete information, the strokes color changes based on the value you send in the XML.

This chart is useful for displaying data as vertical bars. Controlling the bar width and component size allows for a larger data input. The chart is very customizable, and editing the XML will help you change colors, sizes, speeds and transitions as well. Make sure you have a look at the free demo, to see how the component's XML works.

Free HD Video Player for your Website. Vaymax - leader among modern multimedia players. The player is very convenient to use, you can specify any size and parameters. Convenient, easy-to-use interface helps you watch online videos quickly and easily.

The advanced XML Image Rotator with thumbnails was designed to be used embedded in html pages, stand alone or integrated in another pages.

* This tiny script will allow you to decode your links and display them on a flash object, making it hard for scrapers to get the actual link. * This project uses a swf flash object file that takes in parameters as flash vars. * The flash object is completely customizable: Dimensions, colors, text, labeling, tooltips, etc. * The project size is only 14KB zipped.