Drop-down Menu for MX
Lets start out setting up the movie's properties. Set the Size of the stage to: width 350 by height 230. Make the background color White, and set the Frame rate to 22. Now turn on the Grid so you can see it. To do this go to: '...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Delete a SharedObject
Having problems removing SharedObjects from the users local computer? here are two easy to use methods that take the hassle out of clearing them permanently... To delete a SharedObject from the local computer, you must firstly delete all of the properties contained inside the data object of the S...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Creating Sound Control
This tutorial requires a basic knowledge of Flash. You must know how to create buttons, and work with Frames and Layers. For this tutorial, you will need a sound loop - you can find plenty all over then net, or do what I did and create your own. I just tossed a very quick and easy loop into this ...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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System.showSetting
Weve all seen the somewhat mysterious settings menu, found in the right-click menu for the flash 6 player. Wouldnt it be nice, if you could force one of the system settings tabs open on a user? Well, you can, Macromedia havent told us about it in the official Flash MX Help included in the bundle, bu...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Uppercase First Letter
Personally i feel that making the first letter of a word, in a sentence and sometimes the first letter of every word in a sentence, looks better than all lowercase. When it comes to input textfields and the loading of external content, i like to make the first letter capitalised, so i created a Stri...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Passing Variables to Flash
As part of my site deign I was after a method in which I could have a reusable banner. This banner was going to be a flash program and would be cached for every page. I wanted to pass a variable to the flash program, and that would be the title for that page. There are several methods of passing ...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Flash Random
Random motion can be easily produced via actionscript. You can a sample of this effect on kirupa.com. This tutorial shows you how to reproduce this effect. 1) First of all,...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Macromedia Flash - The Basic Concepts
INTRODUCTION Macromedia Flash is the vector based industrial standard authoring tool for producing artwork, animations, interactive movies and rich internet applications. The Flash package contains a variety of media to help the user learn the program quickly, which includes Introductory Lesso...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Guy Watson's Tips
Ive heard so many people winge on the many community forums and mailing lists lately about the onLoad event handler not working with loadMovie and although i posted a fix for the problem sometime ago, i found this very small and functional fix that does the same thing, a while ago on the Flashcoders...
Type : Flash Articles
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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Improving Flash Cursors
One of the cool things with Flash 5 is the ability to hide the cursor. However as many people will tell you this can cause some issues with usability. One of the things with the internet and the cursor is that people get used to having the cursor change once it moves over an area that is "hot" (ie...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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