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
Create Sound Control in Flash
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
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
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
Drop-down Menu in Flash
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
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
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
First Person Games
This won't exactly teach you how to make a flash version of virtua - cop but, it's a basic way to make a first person shooter, with a hand that moves - adding a bit more realism to the game. My art work is rubbish - but that...
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Professional
Added : Aug 02, 2004
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
Dessolving Words
Step 1: Type the text you're gonna dissolve on it's own separate layer. It's good to name this layer so you don't get it confused with other stuff in your movie. Step 2: Convert your text into a movie clip symbol. Either click Insert> Convert to Symbol, or press F8. Name it something like ....
Type : Flash Tutorials
Level : Experienced
Added : Aug 02, 2004
