Flash CS3 and Flash CS4 tutorials

Win a Flash Component

admin — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:49:56 PST

With great pleasure I present a new method to create Flash banners without use of Adobe Flash. The staff of JumpeyeComponents created BannerSnack, creator of banners online ! With BannerSnack you can create your own banner and add hundreds of effects. You will be surprised to see what you can do with this powerful [...]

Flash RSS reader

admin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:57:55 PST

FlepStudio has created a new free utility for Flash CS3-CS4. This is a scroller RSS reader. It reads any RSS feed, simply set the url of the feed. The RSS parse is done with a PHP script by Last RSS. Graphics easily configurable options and colors in the AS file. Very useful for those who want to share the feeds [...]

Resizing SWF at real time

admin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:34:58 PST

Not everyone knows that you can change the size of a SWF in real time, at runtime. When Flash CS3 came out many of us hoped that the new version of Actionscript allowed to set the size of the stage so that we could change the size of the SWF embedded in html page. We thought we [...]

Flash CS4 rotationX and rotationY

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:29:40 PST

We saw that MovieClip class of Flash CS4 has a new property, the z property. We will see how to create animations even with that property but today I want to write about other 2 new rotationX rotationY These two new properties manage rotations on the axes X, Y and you can create decidedly new animations compared [...]

Understanding MovieClip z property of Flash CS4

admin — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:39:35 PST

What ’s the first thing that jumps to eyes when you are reading the MovieClip class reference of Flash CS4? Of course the z property ! With Flash CS3 we saw how to simulate it: 3D images viewer z-axis simulation with Flash CS3 The big news of Flash CS4 is that we will not go into hard [...]

Using PrintJob class of Actionscript 3.0

admin — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:14:09 PST

Sometimes happen to have to print the contents of our SWF in paper or PDF. The right Actionscript 3.0 class to do that is is the PrintJob! It happened just yesterday to me with a client who I made a small application. This application displays images with descriptions and the client has asked me to add [...]

Removing duplicate elements of Array with Actionscript 3.0

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:25:16 PST

Suppose you have an Array of data and that we want eliminate the elements that have the same value. For example, we got from a DataBase the data on sales of some products. These products are different from each other and the customer asks us to create a scroll that displays product [...]

“Tell A Friend” Utility Flash CS3 - Flash CS4

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:13:00 PST

FlepStudio has created a new free Flash CS3 utility. It’s a simple “ Tell A Friend ” that allows you to recommend a url to friends of your users. The utility sends an e-mail with the name of user to his friend and will contain the url of the page where SWF is located and then [...]

Using Zend AMF and Actionscript 3.0

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:03:40 PST

Zend is a PHP framework. Zend Amf permits communications between Flash and PHP without using XML. For example, to query a DataBase by Flash we need to call a PHP script that executes the query at DB and returns an XML output. At that point only Flash can display the data it got from DB. We bypass XML by [...]

Brief Introduction to Flash CS4

admin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:58:20 PST

It’s a couple of days I’m using Flash CS4 and then I express here my first words. I state that my MAC OS is Leopard. The first thing that jumps to my eyes is the new Adobe style interface, it seems to work with Photoshop. While Flash CS3 had some Macromedia style, Flash CS4 has panels and colors [...]