Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview
Adobe Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview provides registered users of Flash Professional 8 with early access to the new ActionScript 3.0 language and the ability to publish to the newly-released Flash Player 9. ActionScript 3.0 and the new ActionScript Virtual Machine introduced with Flash Player 9 are among the most significant advances in the history of Flash. These new advancements, made in Flash Player 9, provide a more robust programming model, achieve standards compliance, and deliver ground-breaking performance improvements.

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Flash Flip Letter Effect
This tutorial shows you how to create a flip letter effect. Each letter will flip 360 degrees when the user hovers it.

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Create a Scratch card in AS3
This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a scratch card effect iin Actionscript 3.0.

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Detecting the Flash Player
For somebody to be able to see your Flash movie online they need the appropriate Flash player to be installed into the Browser. So if you create a movie in Flash 5 they will need the Flash 5 Player (or a more recent version of the player). If you create a Flash MX movie the Browser needs the Flash 6 Player and Flash MX 2004 needs the Flash 7 Player.

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Virtual CD Player with ActionScript
Create a Virtual CD Player in Flash 5 with ActionScript!

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Fantastic Text Effect without writing any ActionScript
Normally, to create a good text effect, you need to take advantage of ActionScript by using Flash, which is not so easy for us flash beginners. Here I would like to introduce you a flash design tool, with which you can create a lot of fantasic text effects with just a few clicks. Don't beleive it? Take the following tour and you will be convinced.

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Flash Actionscript Programming Basics
There are currently 2 versions of Actionscript.Actionscript 1.0 (AS 1.0) is the version that works with Flash MX.Actionscript 2.0 (AS 2.0) is the new language that ships with Flash MX2004. Most items in these tutorials will cover both AS 1 and AS 2. Where there is a difference I will indicate it.Actionscript 1.0 will work with Flash MX2004 but Actionscript 2.0 will not work with Flash MX.

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Flash Actionscript Programming Basics
There are currently 2 versions of Actionscript. Actionscript 1.0 (AS 1.0) is the version that works with Flash MX. Actionscript 2.0 (AS 2.0) is the new language that ships with Flash MX2004. Most items in these tutorials will cover both AS 1 and AS 2. Where there is a difference I will indicate it. Actionscript 1.0 will work with Flash MX2004 but Actionscript 2.0 will not work with Flash MX.

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Flash Actionscript 2.0 Programming Basics
This course is adapted from the book "C++ Primer" by Stanley Lippman.There are currently 2 versions of Actionscript. Actionscript 1.0 (AS 1.0) is the version that works with Flash MX. Actionscript 2.0 (AS 2.0) is the new language that ships with Flash MX2004. Most items in these tutorials will cover both AS 1 and AS 2. Where there is a difference I will indicate it. Actionscript 1.0 will work with Flash MX2004 but Actionscript 2.0 will not work with Flash MX.

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Flash video player with custom controllers
This tutorial shows how to build flash video player with custom playback controllers using Flash CS3 and ActionScript 3.0.

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Writing ActionScript 3.0 in Flash
The Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview is the only development environment that allows you to create Flash documents (FLA files) that use ActionScript 3.0, although you can also compile SWF files from ActionScript (AS) files using Flex Builder 2.

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Create your Own Music Player in Flash
Introduction to the Sound Channel Class in ActionScript

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Printing in Flash Player
In this tutorial we'll be looking a Printing using Flash Player. This will provide a basic understanding of the newest version of Flash Player from which we will build on in further tutorials as we customise our print command.

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Applying Flash 8 Filters Using ActionScript
This tutorial will hopefully teach you how to do that easily. This tutorial is to be followed in Flash 8 and the created SWF files will have to be viewed on Flash 8 Player to show these effects.

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Flash MX 2004 ActionScript Learning Guide
ActionScript is the scripting language for Macromedia Flash. It makes your Flash content interactive. ActionScript provides a more efficient way to do things in Flash, from creating simple animations through designing complex application interfaces. With the release of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Macromedia introduced ActionScript 2.0.

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Introduction to ActionScript 2
The ActionScript is the programming language that Macromedia Flash has used from the very beginning, and that Flash 8 uses too. In general, we can say that the ActionScript will allow us to make everything what we propose with Flash 8, since it gives absolute control over everything related to a Flash movie, absolutely everything.

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Make your own mp3 Player Flash tutorial
One of the best features of Flash MX is its ability to download mp3 files directly into flash player, before the release of flash MX developers had to import mp3 files into their projects and this made handling such files very hard. But now with the loadSound() function you can easily load mp3s and choose the method flash player downloads them.

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Drag & Drop In Flash
Dragging and dropping is used everywhere. Not only in general file moving and placing, but also within games. It my be necessary to move a certain item elsewhere for a puzzle or adventure game. We're going to take a look at the basics of dragging and dropping in Flash. It is a very simple effect to conquer. It only requires a few lines or Actionscript to work, and I shall explain what the Actionscript is telling Flash to do. If you would like to see an example of what you can create, click here.

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E-card Announcement
Create your own e-card announcement using images from your camera and Flash. All you need is a photograph, Flash, and a little imagination.

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Rain effect in Actionscript 3
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to create a rain effect in actionscript 3.

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Blur Effect
This is a simple tutorial which will teach you how to create a blurred image animation in Flash, though originally intended for the pre-Flash Filters era, this technique is still valid and is the only method for creating a blur animation for making FlashLite movies and movies to be played on older versions of the Flash player such as the the one running on the Sony PSP. Our technique here does not require any ActionScript knowledge, but will require using an external image editor for creating a blurred version of the image that we are intending to use.

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Old Grains Effect (Old TV Effect) in Flash
Learn how to create a noisy old television grain effect using basic ActionScript.

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Realistic Flash Water Effect
We will create a realistic water reflection in Adobe Flash using Actionscript. After completing this tutorial, you will be able to apply the effect to your own photos and web graphics. I will also highlight the key variables to tweak the effect.

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Create flash video player using Flash Components
This tutorial explains how to create flash video player for your website using flash components in Adobe Flash Professional CS3.

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Flash 5.0 ActionScript Special-Effect (Optic Infusion Slideshow)
This tutorial discusses four useful actionscript techniques.

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Flash tutorial to create glow effect using actionscript
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.

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Actionscript 3 based Mini Audio player / MP3 player in Flash
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

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Realistic Flash Smoke Effect
We will create a realistic smoke effect in Adobe Flash using Actionscript. After completing this tutorial, you will be able to easily adjust the smoke effect with key variables.

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Stretch menu effect in Actionscript 3
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to create a stretch menu effect in Actionscript 3.0

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Create a mp3 player with animated equalizer and playback controls!
I have received many requests to explain how to create an mp3 player in Flash, so here it is! You will learn to create the following (please note that this is a Flash 8 tutorial):

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Banner resizer effect in Actionscript 3
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to create a banner resizer effect in Actionscript 3. This effect increase the size of the banner when the mouse is over, and restore the orginal size when the mouse is off.

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Detect the Flash Player
If you use the new features in Flash MX 2004 you will need to detect if your audience has the latest version of the Flash Player plug-in installed on their computer, otherwise they will not be able to see your Movie as you intended.

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Creating an AS3 XML Video Player in Flash
This tutorial will teach you how to create a YouTube like Flash video player.

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

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Drag And Drop Items
Dragging and dropping is used everywhere. Not only in general file moving and placing, but also within games. It my be necessary to move a certain item elsewhere for a puzzle or adventure game. We're going to take a look at the basics of dragging and dropping in Flash. It is a very simple effect to conquer. It only requires a few lines or Actionscript to work, and I shall explain what the Actionscript is telling Flash to do.

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Flash, Javascript & Media Player ActiveX
An example of how to interface Flash with an ActiveX component using javascript, FScommand and Get Url to create a Flash control panel for Windows Media Player.

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Let Is Snow in Flash MX
In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to create a dynamic snow effect. This can really give the final touch to a christmas card.

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Creating a Custom Cursor in Flash
There is more than one technique for making this effect in Flash, we are going to use the most basic one. In our example, the custom cursor is a Movie Clip symbol that is being dragged by the actual mouse cursor which is being hidden. This is a beginner tutorial and you will not need any specialist knowledge with ActionScript to follow it. Here is an example of the result effect that we will create:

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Dealing with Data Types
In this tutorial we are going to discuss and learn about one of the new introductions to Flash Actionscript. Some basic data types existed in Flash 4 such as strings, numbers and boolean though they weren't formalised until Flash 5. As you have probably figured out, Flash 5 Actionscript is a lot more complex that its Flash 4 parent but it's complexity delivers something the internet needs - more power :)

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Transferring data across domains using crossdomain.xml
In many occasions you might want a SWF to be able to retrieve data from another domain, by loading variables from a text file for example, or you might want to send data from a Flash email form to a PHP script that is sitting on another domain.With Flash player 6 a security sandbox implemented a restriction : a movie sitting on one domain would be prevented from loading data from another domain. In Flash Player 6, sub domains of the same parent domain could access each other's data this is not the case anymore starting with Flash player 7, domains must be identical for data to be read.

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