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.
Creating a Basic Audio Box in Flash Adobe Flash / Tips and Tricks
This tutorial will teach you how to create an extremely simple music box in Flash with very little scripting. You can use this music box in your blog, in a forum, a portfolio, personal webpage, etc. I used this in my blog, I think that it gives it this atmospheric feeling to the blog, and it's cool to have one anyway! Our music box is going to be extremely basic, will contain two buttons and two frames: Play and Stop. You press play, the music starts, press stop and the music stops as well.
A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database Adobe Flash / Dynamic Content
This tutorial is about creating a simple to a limited extent searchable database with XML and integrating it into Flash. "XML is the phuture of the web", somebody once wrote to me and that is what I am learning wherever something is written about XML. There are a number of ways to parse XML such as XSL or javascript.
Music On/Off Toggler Adobe Flash / Sound
Ok, so you're making a website and you have NO IDEA how to make a music on/off switch? Maybe it might seem hard but really it's not. It only takes 1 Movie Clip, 2 buttons, and about 4/5 lines of actionscript as well as your music! Sound easy?Let's get started!
Transferring data across domains using crossdomain.xml Adobe Flash / Tips and Tricks
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.
Creating an XML Slideshow in Flash Adobe Flash / ActionScript
All the contents of our slideshow will be controlled through an XML file so that you can updated your images and their description without going back to your FLA, the XML file will also control the speed of the slideshow.
Flash 5 and XML Adobe Flash / Third Party
When Flash 5 came out, I was impressed by a lot of the new features Macromedia had put into their product, but none so much as the addition of the XML ActionScript object. The XML Object allows you to pull in xml data and display it within your flash movie. Take a look at my example below (I pulled the xml content from moreover.com. They have tons of free feeds to all kinds of free news and content).