Using Local Shared Objects in Flash MX
Before Flash MX, it was pretty tricky to "remeber" the data in a Flash movie - it could be done with a standard browser cookie, which was hard to implement for someone with intermediate Flash skills, using a 3rd party script such as PHP or ASP or (in offline Flash applications) with the undocument...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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update AfterEvent Explained
It appears that most coders use it, but 50% if not more dont actually know why they are using it, what it does or when they should use it. In the latest article for a regular column in a uk based internet magazine; dot net, a self proclaimed actionscript expert implemented updateAfterEvent in his mo...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Animated Mask
Making an animated mask in Flash is a simple and useful operation that can allow quite complex and breathtaking animation sequences to be produced with a little imagination and ingenuity. For this tutorial I will make a simple animation that unmasks a text header.
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Internal Actionscript Architecture
A blank .swf file is not quite empty, inside of all your .swf files you will find the actionscript that defines the built in objects such as Math, String and Array but what does that code look like? Well unfortuneatley when you publish to the .swf file format, all your actionscript is compiled in...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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ASSetPropFlags
This function is used internally during the initializion stage for the predefined actionscript objects. It is used to hide an objects children from the for..in loop construct. The for..in loop construct iterates over all children of an object, this means it exposes both methods and properties of an ...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Stop Browser Catching Data
Are you sick of your browser caching loaded variables? are you sick of loaded movies being cached? Then heres how to stop the browser from caching your data... The browsers cache comes in handy for slow connections, all the requests you make to a webserver are stored in a local folder on your com...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Global Class Path
Are you sick and tired of writing huge file paths to locate your include files in the actionscript window? or are you the organised type that likes to keep everything grouped together in one place? Whatever the reason, the Flash MX Authoring tool has a neat little feature which you can use to organi...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Displaying Fractions Correctly
Im trying to create a function that will displays fractions in a textfield in the correct format, because 1/4 or 1/2 isnt being accepted by e-learning people as the correct way to display a fraction. So to do this dynamically, i just thought about creating a 3 line dynamic textfield on the fly, plac...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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LoadVars.decode
Another hidden away feature of Flash MX, this time a method of the LoadVars object. This little method, is the method that the LoadVars object uses internally to decode your name/value pairs into object properties and values... LoadVars.decode is inherited by all instances of the LoadVars object....
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Local Connection Tip
Ok, imagine the scenario where you have a number of movies on the page, and each movie has to have the capability of sending and recieving data from and to any of the other movies. To achieve this with LocalConnection you have to use a little bit of trickery, because LocalConnection only allows one ...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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