Flash tutorials

This tutorial will help us teach us on how to create Horizontal 3D Carousel effect in flash using actionscript 3.

The procedure to get this done is by

• Creating an XML file with the image path and the link data in it.
• Then calling this xml data into flash.
• Placing the images in a 3D circle
• Providing the circular movement for the same
• Functions for 'on click' and 'on rollover'

Tags: 3D Carousel effect, horizontal circular motion, Loading external XML data

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We will be covering a lot of topics whilst creating mp3 player, topics include,

• List Component
• Loading external XML data to list component
• Sound, Sound Channel and Sound Transform class
• Add Event Listener method
• FLV Components, such as Play / Pause / Stop / Mute / Back button / Forward button / Slider.
• Volume Control

Tags: Flash MP3 player, Flash audio player, List Component, Loading external XML data to list component, Sound, Sound Channel and Sound Transform class

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Goodie!! We will learn three flash behaviors while creating this eye-catching Flash photo gallery and they are -

• Load external graphic behavior
• On-click behavior to lift photograph right on top and
• Drag and drop behavior

Tags: Flash photo gallery, load external images, drag and drop, actionscript photo gallery 

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When we say we are enhancing text in flash by implementing ‘styles’ to it, We certainly mean we have a styles (.css) page and an HTML page, which is loaded into flash.

Tags : Text Enhancement in flash, CSS in Flash, Import HTML page in Flash , CSS and HTML in Flash 

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The color object in flash allows us to set RGB color value to movie clip symbols. They also help us retrieve the value once set

Tags: Color Object in Flash, Color using actionscript, RGB() actionscripting

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In this tutorial, with the help of actionscript, we shall draw a star, fill color to it and provide outer glow to the same. We shall also include actionscript event to change glow color.

Tags: Glow effect in flash, actionscript filters, Glow in as2, Flash glow effect at runtime,

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This tutorial will teach us on how to draw at runtime using actionscript code.

We will use 'drawing methods' of 'movieclip class' to draw shapes in the SWF file in response to events.

Similar to Photoshop and Fireworks, Flash 8 has this new "effects" feature, which includes, drop shadow, blur, glow, bevel, gradient glow and garient bevel effects. Here in this tutorial, we will be covering blur effect. One very important thing is, these effects can be applied only on text, movieclips and buttons.

To load external MP3 files at runtime, we need to use loadSound() method of Sound class. This method has 2 variable as shown below,
public loadSound(url:String, isStreaming:Boolean) : Void
The isStreaming parameter indicates whether the sound is an event or a streaming sound.

Tags: Load external MP3 file into flash, Stream MP3 File, play mp3 file, Sound Object in Flash, Music play and stop tutorial in flash

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Actionscripting - Set volume of an externally loaded MP3 file

In this tutorial, we will learn how to adjust volume of an externally loaded MP3 file in flash. As we all know, to get this done, we are basically revolving around sound object. The method used to adjust sound volume is setVolume() of sound object. Similarly we can even retrieve the already set volume by getVolume() method, getVolume() returns the sound volume level as an integer from 0 to 100, where 0 is off and 100 is full volume. The default setting is 100.

Tags: Volume control in flash, Tutorial to control volume in flash, setVolume(), getVolume(), Load external MP3 file into flash, Stream MP3 File, play mp3 file, Sound Object in Flash, Music play and stop tutorial in flash

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Actionscripting - Blur effect

lash.filters package contains 'BlurFilter' class, which allows us to apply 'blur visual effect' to movie clips, text fields, and buttons at runtime.

We need to use 'filters' property to apply filters.

Tags: Tutorial on actionscript filters, Blur effect at runtime, Action script blur effect

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Fading objects with actionscript code

While working with movie clips on stage, we might want to fade the movie clip in or out instead of toggling its _visible property. There are two procedures to animate a movie clip

• By using 'onEnterFrame' event handler 
• By using 'set interval()' function

Tags: action script fade image tutorial, setinterval(), alpha code

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Preload MP3 file

To preload MP3 file, we can use 'setinterval()'  function to create polling mechanism that checks the bytes loaded for a Sound or NetStream object at predetermined intervals. We can use 'Sound.getBytesLoaded()' and 'Sound.getBytesTotal()'  methods to track downloading progress of MP3 files.

Tags: Load external MP3 file into flash, Preload MP3 File, play mp3 file, Sound Object in Flash, Preload and play music, flash music preloader

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Sound Controller

To build a sound controller, we will need to do the following

• To attach external .mp3 file to swf
• To create preloader for sound file
• To create play / stop button
• Volume controller
• Balance (Pan) controller

To Achieve all the above, we will be using built-in sound class to control sounds in a SWF file.

Tags: Load external MP3 file into flash, Preload MP3 File, play mp3 file, Sound Object in Flash, Preload and play music, music play and stop button, Volume control, balance control, Pan control, Sound control

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Extract and view .mp3 file details - Name of the song, Album, and Artist

ID3 tags are data fields added to MP3 file, which contains information such as the name of a song, album, and artist of MP3 files.

We will use 'Sound.id3' property to extract these information.

Tags: Display song details, Display name of the song, Album and artist, id3 tags, Load external MP3 file into flash, Preload MP3 File, play mp3 file, Sound Object in Flash, Preload and play music, music play and stop button, Volume control, Sound control