October 31, 2009
If you ever wonder how to change the color of a MovieClip in Actionscript 3 here’s a very useful tip. All you have to do is use the ColorTranform class. There are many methods to be used, one that come in handy is the color property which I’ll show it to you.
August 28, 2009
In this tutorial I’ll create a customizable analogue clock in ActionScript 3.0. What is a must know is that the time displayed depends on the users computer time. The code beyond is intuitive so the focus here is on the design. Follow this three simple steps to create your one clock.
August 7, 2009
A really simple and useful tip. The drag and drop functionality in Actionscript 3.0. You can use it to drag pictures from one spot to other, to put items in a shoping cart, to arrange objects in a specific order etc. I’ll show you how to match 3 different shapes in their corresponding spots.
July 31, 2009
A couple of days ago I was reading some articles about what clients demand on a project and the features they are interested in. One of them is using the MouseWheel for different actions like scrolling text, zoom in and out etc.
July 23, 2009
When we set out to make a Flash movie in a layer on a DHTML page containing several layers, we usually encounter a problem of displaying. The first layer is above all the other layers no matter what their order is.
July 18, 2009
A tooltip is a brief, descriptive message that appears when you hover the mouse over an object. It is very useful and simple to create. I will create a basic one for you in Actionscript 3.0 with an “alpha” effect when you point the mouse over a movieclip.
July 14, 2009
A couple of days ago a fellow asked me how can he makes a popup window in Flash for his website. I showed him how and I was thinking why not to share with you also. It’s an easy and very powerfull trick.
Here we go (this example is for Actionscript 3.0):
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July 9, 2009
I will show you how to create a simple yet effective countdown timer in ActionScript 3.0. It counts from days to seconds and it’s useful when you schedule anniversaries, appointments, holidays.
1. Create a dynamic TextField and aligned to the right.
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June 28, 2009
For today’s trick I will show how you can display digital time in Flash.
1. Using the Text Tool(T) create 3 Textboxes(hours, minutes, seconds).
2. Give each one a name in the Var field of the Properties Panel.(for this example I use h – hours, m – minutes, s – seconds).
June 22, 2009
In a previews post I wrote about how can you load data from an xml file in Actionscript 2.0. For today’s trick I will show you how can you do that using Actionscript 3.0.
