Using Cookies in Flash
Okay, so we've all seen those sites that log your IP, tell you what system your PC is running and other odd details. There is a tutorial in our php section, that teaches you how to gather users information. Here however we are going to take a basic cookie written with JavaScript and will write the ...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
Accessing ID3 tags.external.mp3
In Flash MX you have the capability to load an external mp3 sound file into a flash movie using the Sound.loadSound() method. In the latest release of the Flash 6 Player it is possible to access the ID3 tags embedded in an mp3 encoded file. Unfortuneatley you cannot access the ID3 tags in an mp3 fil...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
Creating Basic Flash Menu
1. Before we begin creating the whole navigation system were going to have to create a new document depending on how many links you need. In this tutoria.....
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
Changing Colors in Movie Clips
1.Create a big rectangle as shown above. 2.Convert the rectange to a movie clip and give it an instance name of rectangle 3.Create a small square button . 4.Create a small text field give variable name hexcode. 5.Give action to the button as below.
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
Color Flash Light
Ok.. To start off. Lets set up the Stage of the movie. Set the Size of the stage to: width 400 by height 250. Make the background color Black, and set the Frame rate to 22. Next thing, Lets create the layers. Create 4 ...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
Disable Settings... Option
Export your movie with either the width or height less than 215 x 138 and the Right-Click settings option will be disabled as above, this could be used to the flash author's advantage, ie.. Create a movie that asks for full permissions domain wide, and then from then on, swfs on your domain can use...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
Flash MX Event Model
One of my favourite new features of Flash MX, has to be the new event model, it just makes life so much easier and makes coding so much more fun and so much more organised. If you dont know much about it, then now is the time to find out, you really are missing out, but no doubt you are already usin...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
Checking if a File Exists
Sometimes it is necessary to determine if a file exists using actionscript, for example when you have a preloader cue, that loads a series of .jpgs one after another, if one of the files doesnt exist then the cue wouldnt traverse any further, you could of course use a timeout in that scenario but wh...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
onKeyDown VS onClipEvent(keyDown)
All movieclips automatically subscribe to amongst other objects, the Key objects event notifications, this means that you can define any of the Key event handlers within your movieclip, without having to explicitly subscribe to the Key objects, event notifications using the Key.addListener(mymoviecl...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
Spotlight Masking of it
Let's begin. Firstly select the rectangle tool. Draw a rectangle as big as the stage. The colour of the fill should be the colour that you want to your spotlight mask to be. Next select the text tool and type out the text over the box on the stage. Make sure the colour of the text is ...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Beginner
Added : Aug 02, 2004
