AS3 XML Slideshow Tutorial
Learn how to create cool slideshow using ActionScript 3.0 and XML.

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XML Random Image Slideshow
A tutorial that shows you how to create a random images slideshow. The images are loaded from XML external source.

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Create an intelligent XML image Gallery and Slideshow
In this article you will learn how to build an image gallery that will load images from a web server. I decide to call it Intelligent because you don't need to configure any XML or flash file. Just put the Flash movie and the images on a server and they will be loaded automatically. Nice ah?

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Working With XML
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.

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Flash MX slide show
This tutorial will show you how to set up a slide show uploading pictures and presenting them using different ways. What is different to the slideshow presented as a template in Flash MX (After creating this file I found out that Flash MX has a slideshow template)? The big difference is that we do not have to create one frame for one slide but one frame for a series of slides, which we control by actionscript.

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Flash FAQ - XML packets and XPAth
The Flash-XML FAQ aims to provide a definitive source for common questions about Flash and its interaction with XML (and XML datasources).

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A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database
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.

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Flash 5 and XML
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).

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Create a Photo Slideshow Gallery in Flash 8.0
Learn how to create a Photo slideshow in Flash 8.0 using the in-built Flash Photo Slideshow template.

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Flash Slideshow Image Gallery
The Flash Slideshow Image Gallery of your dreams can be created with this hot tutorial. All you have to do is to follow these steps, look at the illustrations and screenshots, and use the code that the author provides.

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Flash Slideshow Image Gallery
This tutorial will show you how to make a simple, yet effective, slideshow-type image gallery using Flash with minimal scripting.

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Fading Banner Slideshow
This Adobe Flash CS4 tutorial will teach you how to create a fade in and fade out banner slideshow for your websites. You will need to create seven images that will make up the slideshow images and import them into the Flash CS4 Library then add to the Flash animation document stage. You will then convert the images to symbols and create Motion Tweens for your individual image layers and adjust the Color Effect Alfa type at various point in the Timeline to create an image fade in and out effect.

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Creating Slideshow Transitions Using ActionScript
In this tutorial, you will learn the code necessary in order to make one slideshow image fade in right on top of another one using ActionScript.

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XML-Based Searchable Database (part 3): list matches, preloader and more...
This tutorial is part 3 of the tutorial series about creating a simple database with XML and integrating it into Flash. This part shows you how to do advanced search using more complex XML files.

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Flash XML processing
Flash XML processing is not a complicated task at all. In this article I will show you how to load and process XML files via actionscript.

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Creating an Advance Flash Image Gallery
This tutorial will teach you how to create an advanced scrolling gallery using XML. All of our assets will be dynamically loaded and the gallery could be fully customized using the XML file.

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Horizontal 3D Carousel in 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'

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Flash and XML
Learn how to create a flash phonebook using the power of xml with flash.

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Retrieve Data From XML File
Tutorial on how to load external source, XML, into your Flash movie. XML is widely used markup language that enable sharing of structured data across platforms.

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Simple Flash XML Photogallery
This tutorial you will have created a bare-bones flash photo gallery which will look something like this. The thumbnails, images and titles are loaded and setup dynamically with data provided by a xml file.

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XML Menu
This Flash tutorial will show you how to create buttons using xml for the text.

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Loading XML data in Flash using ActionScript
XML can be used to load external data in Flash to provide an easy method for structuring content so that it is easy to understand, process, and update.

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Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Progressive Flash Video
There's been a strong outcry for an article demonstrating an XML-driven playlist that does not require Macromedia Flash Communication Server. You wanted the flexibility to update your progressive Flash video (FLV) playlists without editing your Macromedia Flash source files.

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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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Using Flash with Zinc v2.5 to Convert and Save a CSV file to an XML file
This tutorial will enable you to load a CSV of any size and convert it into XML data and then save that XML data to disk.

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import Data from XML in a desired font Style.
This can be useful for importing the XML data to flash in a desired font style, you can use this code directly and you can change the labels in XML and keep your labels and its ready to use.

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Movable XML Image Gallery
This tutorial will teach you how to create moveable XML Image Gallery. This is improvement of our existed XML Gallery. The pictures are loaded from external sources, XML.

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A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database (part 2): URLs and Frame numbers
This tutorial is about adding URLs to buttons or frame numbers to ´gotoAndPlay´ or other actions using xml. The tutorial is a continuation of the previously published tutorial ´A Simple XML-Based Searchable Database´. The previous tutorial was about creating a database using XML. I will also discuss some parts of the script again and this time in more detail. In particular I want to point to one mistake in the previous tutorial. This tutorial requires FlashMX.

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Create a Comment Form with Flash, PHP, XML and MySQL
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use Flash, PHP and MySQL together. We'll build a simple comment form that takes entries and stores them in a database. We'll use PHP to retrieve the entries and format the comments into XML form.

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Creating 'Track-Points' in Adobe After Effects and using them in a Flash Animation
How to create 'Track-Points' in Adobe After Effects, how to convert them to XML and how to connect to them in flash to make an animation that responds to your moving part in the flv.

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Creating an XML Scrollbar Gallery in Flash
Create a smart interactive gallery that can be controlled using a scrollbar.

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Working with XML
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.

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

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How to use SameShow to Convert PowerPoint to Flash
Show you how to use SameShow to convert PowerPoint presentation to Flash Slideshow with two conversion mode.

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Creating An XML Music Player Using AS3
This tutorial will teach you how to create an interactive music player powered by XML using AS3.

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Loading XML data using ActionScript 3.0
ActionScript 3.0 provides new powerful methods for dealing with XML data that make it possible to easily filter and search the content of a XML file.

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Creating a Grid Image Gallery in Flash Using AS3
This detailed tutorial will teach you how to create a powerful XML powered image gallery that lays out your thumbnails in a grid manner.

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OOP RSS via ActionScript 2.0
RSS keeps growing in popularity, and so we find ourselves playing with RSS feeds in new and interesting ways... or perhaps it's the other way around?!?! Adobe (Formerly Macromedia) Flash is moving more and more towards XML and OOP paradigms. So I've taken it upon myself to write some classes for parsing through Flash's XML to get RSS feeds. O, and the zip file has the necessary files, the CSS files etc.

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Creating a simple Guest Book in Flash
This tutorial shows you how to create a simple Guest book in Flash. This Guest book is simple, efficient, fast, and easy to implement. Their are no complicated database or xml issues to worry about. One swf, one script, and one text file. Put it together and you'll have a great Guest book for your site. In this example we use a PHP script but after you understand how it works it should be fairly easy to write the same script in Perl, ASP, or Cold Fusion. With a couple of modifications and some additions to the non-existent administration side you'll be able to create almost anything you want out of it.

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Creating MovieClips in Flash
This tutorial will show you the basics of creating and using Movieclips in Flash MX. Most of the information will also be applicable to Flash MX2004.

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