Pass Parameters into your Flash File at runtime Adobe Flash / ActionScript
One way you can get around not being able to pass a parameter in is to add a "querystring" to your swf src in the embed tag / param movie in your object tag and then look at the _url property for the movie and strip off the query part.
Movie Clip in a movie Adobe Flash / Getting Started
This Flash Tutorial addresses how to make a movie in a movie. I've noticed in the forums that many beginners to Flash often conceptualize a Flash movie as one long movie with one time line. It is important beginners learn early that Flash may alternatively be conceptualized as many small movies, or movieClips, which are called to the main time line to play as needed. As you become more familiar with Flash you will learn that this is really a great way to create Flash movies. A few of the many advantages include better control of your main time line, and the ability to reuse movie clips in completely different Flash movies.
Preload External Flash Movies using Movie Clips Adobe Flash / Performance and Optimization
This tutorial shows you an easy way to load one Flash Movie into another. This loads the external Flash SWF Movie into a Movie Clip with the help of the Progress Bar Component. Loading a Movie into an MC means that you can address the Movie Clip in the ActionScript and change the Movie Clips properties. This MC includes the external swf file so any change that you impose on the Movie Clip also changes the external Movie nested within.
Working With XML Adobe Flash / Tips and Tricks
Sometimes you need to pass a flash file information. Perhaps you're making a flash-based photo gallery or an mp3 player. Maybe you want to use flash to parse server information. Whatever you need to do, it may make the most sense to use XML to pass your data to flash. Using XML is good because it's easy to parse as flash has built-in XML tools. In order to use an XML file, you need flash to do 2 things: read it and parse it. Here's an example of the code you'd need to read in an XML file (called info.xml) and parse it.
Playing a Flash Movie Backwards Adobe Flash / Animation
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to make a movie play in reverse. You will also learn how to create a controller Movie Clip, which will give an automated instruction from one part of a Flash movie to another, this is fundamental to programming in Flash and has many uses. You will also learn how to switch these instructions on and off. Examples of other Flash movies, that use controllers, are listed at the end of this page.
How To Prepare, Test And Publish A Movie Adobe Flash / Getting Started
In this video clip tutorial you will learn the following:How to prepare items in the timeline window before publishing a movie in Flash,How to test a completed movie in Flash,How to preview a Flash movie in a browser for final testing.
Simple PHP Live Counter For your Flash Movie Adobe Flash / Dynamic Content
This tutorial shows you how to create a simple counter that you can use anywhere in your flash movie. The most obvious place is for either the intro or the main part of the Flash Movie that you are working with. You can also use this in other parts of your movie as well.
Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips Flash tutorial Adobe Flash / Performance and Optimization
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to use Levels to load several Flash movies (or Jpegs) simultaneously into a single shockwave file (swf). How to switch between one Flash movie and another without loading a new web page. How to load a new movie into a movie clip of a pre-existing movie. To do this we need to look at the following ActionScript keywords.
Loading External Images Flash tutorial Adobe Flash / Performance and Optimization
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create a Flash Movie which loads an Array (list) of external images such as Jpegs or Gifs. These images would then be loaded individually into the Flash Movie as and when the user wished to look at them. This makes the Flash Movie much smaller and reduces the pre-load time for the Flash Movie. The individual images would each have there own pre-loader, so that there is a small delay before loading individual images but no long wait at the beginning of the Movie.
Loading External Images Adobe Flash / Backend Integration
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create a Flash Movie which loads an Array of external images such as Jpegs or Gifs. These images would then be loaded individually into the Flash Movie as and when the user wished to look at them. This makes the Flash Movie much smaller and reduces the pre-load time for the Flash Movie. The individual images would each have there own pre-loader so that there is a small delay before loading individual images but no long wait at the beginning of the Movie.
Using SWISH movies in Flash without Importing Adobe Flash / Third Party
I would like to propose to you a way of using SWISH movies into a standard Flash movie that is more flexible and reusable than importing. You use the LoadMovie action from Flash and keep the SWISH movie as an external .swf file.The method is simple. You create a placeholder movie clip in Flash and position it as you like in the main scene (giving it an instance name), and then add a frame action to load the SWISH movie into it.
Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips Adobe Flash / Navigation
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to use Levels to load several Flash movies (or Jpegs) simultaneously into a single shock wave file (swf). How to switch between one Flash movie and another without loading a new web page. How to load a new movie into a movie clip of a pre-existing movie.
Creating a movie in a movie Adobe Flash / Getting Started
This is a tutorial is very simple for those new to flash. It is designed as a scaffolding task. This means that the learner will be able to apply a simply learned knowledge to many more complex ideas as they are encountered in more complex environments. We will accomplish two objectives in this tutorial. Objective one is to illustrate one way of creating a small secondary flash movie symbol, also called a movie clip using the 'create symbol function' in the library panel. The second objective is to illustrate how a movie clip is used as part of a main flash movie. The example we provided here is an animation that plays when you mouse over a button.
Draggable Mask Adobe Flash / Interactivity
First of all you will need to create a movie clip, for arguments sake call it masker with an instance name of masker_mc. by default, I make my masks a circle but seeing as it a movie clip you can even make it a moving mask, to do this, go into the masker editer screen and make any movie or picture you want. After creating the movieclip create 2 more layers but make sure the layer with the mask is o top the layer with the thing you want to mask second and the thing you want to show on top (the "veil") third.