How to Make an Interactive Menu
A very interactive tutorial on how to make an interactive flash menu that animates on mouse over. Enjoy!!!

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Creating buttons in Flash
The button is probably the first element that most people who are new to Flash are going to create. It is visual and it is interactive. Creating an interactive button is quite a simple task. Let's have a look at the tutorial.

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Animated camera focus blur/sharp interactive effect
In this Flash 8 Pro tutorial, I will show you how simply it is to create an interactive image with camera blur/sharpen effects that appear as the user moves her mouse over it.In this easy and comprehensive lesson, you will see how to:

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Creating an Interactive Form in Flash
This tutorial will show you how to incorporate a feed back form using Flash. The useful feature about this technique is that users will not be taken out of your site after submitting their info. They'll be sent to a personal thank you frame within Flash.

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Flash Ticker Instance Model
The Flash Ticker tutorial teaches you how to dispense with expensive generators and learn to create a ticker in flash that loads external data. A great interactive tool for your website.

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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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Sound Equalizer
Using the enhanced ActionScripting features of Flash, it is now possible to create some truly interactive audio effects, for example volume and panning controls. This tutorial will explain how to use sound objects, Smart Clips and ActionScripting to create an interactive 3 band graphic equalizer effect with volume control.

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Building a Custom Cursor in Flash 5
This technique is one that no serious Flash designer should be without. I wrote this Flash 5 tutorial mainly for designers - as they may not have all the programming/action script experience they need to create great interactive Flash sites and presentations.Being a designer, learning action script has been a necessary evil for me - rather like 'motion math' in after effects. If you're picky about how your final Flash designs turn out, it forces you to learn many things you normally wouldn't such as the practice of programming.

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How to Make a Cursor in Flash 5
A quick tutorial for the Flash 5 trainee looking for a nice, interactive touch for their site. Need very basic knowledge of ActionScripting. A very simple and straight-forward tutorial.

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Create funny interactive comic-style speech bubbles
In this easy lesson made for Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8, I will show you how to give custom speech bubbles to characters featured in a classical painting. Have a look at the Flash example below - roll your mouse over the women and men in the picture to get a clear idea of what you're going to learn to make in this tutorial.

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Flash Image Animation
This tutorial will show you how to add tool tips to any flash project.Tool tips are extremely useful for informing users of what is interactive in a flash project. The method I use to employ tool tips is very simple and easy to use. It will be done with a single movieclip for all toop tips to keep file size down.

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Creating a Portfolio Scene in Flash
This tutorial will teach you how to create a portfolio scene in Flash similar to the one displayed below. Our portfolio will feature an interactive display unit that shows a larger thumbnail of our selected product. Navigate the flash movie below to see the effect in action. Click on the buttons to display larger versions of the images.

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Creating Checkboxes in Flash
How do I create a checkbox? You can easily create an eye grabbing checkbox or switch to suit your overall design in Flash with ease. It's something an interactive site cannot do without. Have look at the examples for checkboxes and switches in action.

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Make a Multifaceted Menu with Dynamic Contents, Tip and Information
This will be the most interactive and remarkable lesson on flash menu, that you have ever learnt. We are going to make a flash menu that will show tips, dynamic interface and user friendly.

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Sound
Adding sound to flash movies is a fun way to make your movies more interactive and dynamic. Adding sound in flash seemed a daunting task to me at first, however it is surprisingly easy! Hopefully this tutorial will help you out in your future flash endeavors. Just a quick note - you will need to have a music loop or music file of some kind handy to complete this tutorial, preferably an .mp3 file.

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An Introduction to Tweening
Flash is known for delivering rich interactive experiences with a lot of "eye-candy". Often, this eye-candy is achieved by means of animation and Flash has great animating capabilities. During this tutorial we'll discuss tweening; Flash's automated animation.

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Droptarget - Great for Games
This tutorial, especially if your into programming interactive maps. Its use can save you on long inefficient code. In this tutorial you learn how to detect when two movies have come into contact and display the name of the movie clip in a textfield (great uses for interactive maps).

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Interactive country map
In this lesson, I will show you have to make a very useful and widely used element: an interactive map. Whether it be a country map, like the case is here, or an anatomical map of human body, city plan, an engine schema, etc., the method applied is the same. It is very simple, as you'll soon see.

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Creating Interactive Movies
Selteco Flash Designer provides basic level of interactivity. Each item can be defined as a button and react to mouse over events or mouse clicks.

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Creating an Interactive Story
This tutorial is done in Flash. The author leads throught the necessary steps to create an Intereactive Story. Storyline versions, graphics, motion effects are all discussed and made simple.

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Dynamic User Survey - Part II
The second and final part of a tutorial series illustrating the many interactive and dynamic scripting abilities of Flash 4 without the use of the Generator.

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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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Creating a Dry Erase Board in Flash Using ActionScript
Want your users to stick around your website a little longer? Try giving them something interactive to do, like drawing on the stage. In this video, you will learn how to allow your users to click and drag on the stage in order to create their own drawings.

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Creating Dynamic Soundtracks Using Layering
The time has come for interactive soundtracks on the web. Broadband Internet connections are attainable for most businesses and consumers, and compression technology has become standardized. Tools such as Macromedia Flash offer powerful functionality for integrating synchronized, multi-layered soundtracks.

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Simple Interactive Button
How to make a simple Interactive button.

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Creating a Grid Dynamically with Actionscript
There is plenty of reasons why you would like to create a grid in Flash, if you are creating a sudoku a crossword activity or a chess game you will surely need to create a grid with cells that need to be interactive and able to display some kind of data (graphics or text).

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Creating Invisible Buttons in Flash
In this tutorial, you will learn how to command sounds with invisible buttons. Add invisible buttons around objects that become interactive, and play sounds and songs.

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How to save data using ActionScript
When developing user interactive flash application you some times want the user to be able to save his preferences. It can be very frustrating to use several minutes adjusting some settings and then the next day return and find them resat. You can save content easily on the users computer using the SharedObject class in ActionScript.

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Interactive Spot-Light Effect (Masking) Using ActionScript
In this tutorial we will make Interactive Spot-Light Effect (Masking) Using ActionScript.

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How to Make a Simple Drag and Drop
This tutorial will teach you how to make a simple interactive drag and drop which could be useful for your flash games

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Getting Started in Flash 5
There are two types of people that will be reading this tutorial. Those that have used flash 4 and those that have just bought their copy of Flash 5 and have absolutely no idea about anything but are keen to learn. If you fit latter category, you are in the right place! If you have used Flash 4 then you best introduction to Flash 5 is the Flash 5 tour.

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Creating an Interactive Story Part 2
In the first part of this two-part tutorial we created a Flash movie in which the lights in a house immediately turn on when the user "rings" the doorbell. In part two, we'll add the sound of footsteps as our homeowner walks to answer the door and turn the lights on after the footsteps stop.

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Flash Plugin Detection in Flash 8
Flash plugin detection is very easy to implement in Flash 8. Its actually built-in. In this tutorial I will show you how to activate Flash plugin detection for whatever version of Flash that your Flash document requires.

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Using Local Shared Objects in Flash MX: The Flash Cookies
Before Flash MX, it was pretty tricky to "remeber" the data in a Flash movie - it could be done with a standard browser cookie, which was hard to implement for someone with intermediate Flash skills, using a 3rd party script such as PHP or ASP or (in offline Flash applications) with the undocumented fscommand "save". Flash MX's Shared objects allow to store and retrieve the information within a Flash movie easily. Lets see how it works.

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Sprites in Flash
This tutorial was written for the Flash Designer software, which allows you to create flash animations in a much easier way than by using Macromedia Flash.

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Drag 'n' Drop IQ Test
A key interactive feature that you can use is the ability to drag'n'drop movie clips. Learn the secret here!

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Intro to Flash
After you install the Macrodedia FlashMX2004(or professional version), open it, and there are the following things you'll need to know before starting to work on.A complete document to introduce flash and learn the basic flash elements, learning what flash is, how to make animation with basic knowledge, understand the flash environment.

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Using ActionScript to apply the blur filter to button symbols
Make a cool interactive blurring effect with just a few lines of code!

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Preload External Flash Movies using Components Flash tutorial
In this preloader tutorial you will learn how to load an external Flash file into another Flash Movie using the Loader and Progress Bar Components. The use of Components make this is very simple and quick build. You can then break up your Flash project into several Flash movies rather than having one very large Flash file. It also means that the user only needs to wait for that section of the site that they wish to view.

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Using Local Shared Objects in Flash MX
Before Flash MX, it was pretty tricky to "remeber" the data in a Flash movie - it could be done with a standard browser cookie, which was hard to implement for someone with intermediate Flash skills, using a 3rd party script such as PHP or ASP or (in offline Flash applications) with the undocumented fscommand "save". Flash MX's Shared objects allow to store and retrieve the information within a Flash movie easily.

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