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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...
read moreIn 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...
read moreExport 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...
read moreOne 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...
read moreSometimes 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...
read moreAll 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...
read moreIn this tutorial you will learn how to create a preloader that will return a percentage. This percentage can then be used for things such as a preloader bar. Preloaders that work out percentages are important b.....
read moreThis 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...
read moreThis 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...
read moreIt 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...
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