New Scripts | Flash | Tutorials & Tips

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

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.

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

Today, I’m going to show you how to create red circular text animation. You don't have to use action script code to make this lesson.

Using this thoroughly explained, detailed flash lesson, I will explain to you how to create twisty text effect using the adobe after effects and flash.

Today, I’m going to show you how to create line text banner using some special flash and adobe after effects tips and tricks.

In this flash tutorial, you will learn how to create data text animation using the adobe after effects and flash.

Today, I’m going to show you how to create sick text effect using the adobe after effects and flash.

In this flash lesson, you will learn how to create ocean text banner using the adobe after effects and flash.

Today, I’m going to show you how to create Zoom in Zoom out frog text effect. This effect can be used for some text banner or for some presentation.

In this flash lesson, You will see how to create drip down text effect using the adobe after effects and flash.

Today, I’m going to show you how to create alphabet text animation using the adobe after effects and flash.