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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...

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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 ...

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Generic Preloader

This tutorial will teach you the fine art of creating your own generic preloader. That is, a preloader that you can drag and drop into ANY movie clip without modifying the code in any way. The preloader in this tutorial includes: - an indication of the percentage loaded - a preload 'bar' that g...

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Reduce a String

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...

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Creating Time in Flash

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...

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Tweeing

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...

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Mmsave

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...

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ActionScript Programming Tips - Efficiency

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...

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Making a Simple Mediaplayer

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

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