This morning i needed to reduce any given string to a certain length and then place a pattern at the end of the string, in this case a simple '....' but the reduction had to take into account full words, meaning, i didnt want to just split the string in any old place and leave parts of a word in t.....

This tutorial shows the most basic way to create a user login interface using nothing but flash and its components.

1.Create a new movie with width=200 and height=75 . 2.Create a text field name it time. 3.Name the current layer textfield. 4.Create a new layer above the current layer and name it actions 5.Create two key frames in the acti...

1. First you'll have to make a new document and insert a keyframe in the timeline. Draw a shape in that keyframe. (I drew a circle) 2. Now right click on that keyf...

This function is used internally by the Macromedia Answers Panel as part of the update process. This function is used to save a local copy of a .swf file or a local textfile. This function is exactly the same as the undocumented Flash 5 function, dashboardSave. It can only be used within the Macrome...

One of the misconseptions of programming, is that even though if a piece of code get's something done, it isn't allways the right way. In this series we're taking a look at the efficiency of scripts. The more efficent your scripts are, the faster they are executed in the Flash player. In small pr...

One of the most frequently asked questions down in the forum is how to make a media player. This is done pretty easily in Flash. In this tutorial, we'll start with a simple player, and then make it more and more advanced. So, let's begin! In this tutorial I assume you use Flash MX

In the current age of technology, with all of the cool toys and gadgets that are available, all of these things exist for one purpose...to allow us to more easily access information. Today, we are able to acquire information more quickly and easily than we has ever been possible in the past. Largely...

In this tutorial you will learn how to make skale menu

Hi and welcome to this tutorial. This tutorial covers SharedObject. SharedObject is a kind of cookie for Flash. Though, SharedObject is much more powerful. SharedObject isn't just a way of saving mere strings on the client's hard disk, you can store texts, strings, numbers and even objects. For in.....