StartDrag command for 1 axis only Adobe Flash / Special Effects
This tutorial details how to have an object follow the mouse on 1 axis only (not possible with the drag command). This gives the effect of it sliding across the screen. This can be done easily by making the x/y position of the object equal to the corresponding position of the mouse. However, to make the movement look more authentic, like it is following the mouse, not just always in the same position, you can add a small piece of code which makes it lag behind a little.
Continuous up and over button animation Adobe Flash / Animation
In this tutorial you will learn how to make a button with a true reversed up and over animation. The trick here is not to put the animation inside the button itself but put the button inside the animated movie that you as whole would use as a button. The animation method of this tutorial is to create a one way animation that rolls out as you put the mouse on the button and rolls back once back starting from its current position once you move the mouse away from the button.
Making Mouse Trails Adobe Flash / Navigation
This tutorial takes you through the process of creating a mouse trail, that popular effect when a series of objects follows the mouse pointer around.
Mouse control and actionscript Adobe Flash / ActionScript
Our world of Flash interactivities will suddenly shrink if our mouse was taken away from us, the mouse is with the keyboard a very important input device that let us converse quickly and efficiently with our Flash applications. Fortunately actionscript has some built in methods, properties and events that are going to be very handy to give us control and information on the mouse activity.
Mouse Follower Adobe Flash / Interactivity
This tutorial will show you how to create a movie clip that will follow your mouse pointer. The Mouse Follower is useful for menu on-the-go.
Getting an Index Position from an Array Adobe Flash / ActionScript
There are several times when I found it helpful to get the position of an item contained in an array. This quest becomes especially useful when you are dealing with multiple arrays with items in one array corresponding with items in another array.
Timeline Motion Tween in Flash MX 2004 Adobe Flash / Getting Started
Flash can create two types of tweened animation using timeline:
Motion Tween & Shape Tween Creation of Motion/Shape tween using timeline is the basics of Flash.Motion tween is nothing but tweening a Symbol's movement from one position to another.
To implement Motion Tween all that you have to do is, provide Flash with Symbol's initial position and the end position. Rest is taken care by Flash. Isn't it really simple.
Creating A Custom Mouse Curser In Flash Adobe Flash / Interactivity
I'm going to show you how to make your mouse arrow customized using simple actionscript in Flash. This is a neat effect you can use if you want the mouse to match the scheme of your site, but try not to go overboard as lots of Flash developers have done in the past.
Detecting the Mouse Angle - Easily Adobe Flash / ActionScript
This tutorial presents a fast easy method for determining an approximation of the mouse angle, and an exact method for calculating the movement of a bullet from the origin to the mouse.
Random Jumping Flash Adobe Flash / ActionScript
Random Jumping - Predictability is way overrated. Web users all over the world expect a button to stand still when they click on it. So why not take a little of that predictability away from them? In this video, you'll learn how to generate random numbers in Flash and then use those numbers to create an elusive button or graphic that jumps to a random position on the stage every time your user hovers his mouse cursor over it.
Loading external swfs in the right position Adobe Flash / Tips and Tricks
This is a simple tutorial answering a simple question: How can I place a loaded movie in the position I want?
It's about the loadMovie action. The loadMovie loads external swfs in movie clips of our movie.
The Tank: Part 2: Rotating and Shooting the Cannon Adobe Flash / Games
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to make the cannon on the tank rotate wherever the mouse is pointing and shoot whenever the left mouse button is clicked. Topics covered in this tutorial: mouse angle detection, onMouseDown event, duplicateMovieClip, rotation and actionscript controlled motion.
Bar Preloader Adobe Flash / Preloaders
The idea behind this preloader is that we halt the progression of the movie and find out our filesize. We find then find out how much of that is loaded, use these numbers to create a percentage and then affect the scale of our bar to represent this.