How to put a picture underneath the SWF file
How to put an SWF file on top of a picture directly in your html page.Adding a picture underneath your Flash animations requires a bit of hand coding. You can do this in the html editing mode of your html editor. To do the coding by hand is a bit more complicated when you are used to the standard "insert flash file" features, such as available in Dreamweaver and Frontpage.

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Displaying a Flash Movie (.swf) in a HTML page
This tutorial will show you how to display a Flash Movie (.swf) in a HTML page using the <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags.

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Internal Actionscript Architecture
A blank .swf file is not quite empty, inside of all your .swf files you will find the actionscript that defines the built in objects such as Math, String and Array but what does that code look like? Well unfortuneatley when you publish to the .swf file format, all your actionscript is compiled in into bytecode, so its no longer in its human readbable form.

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Insert Dynamic Movie (External SWF File)
Display external Flash file inside Flash Designer movie.

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Flash Sound on HTML Web Pages
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to add sound to any web page that 99% of all users will be able to hear. With this technique there is no Flash interface on your web page - only sound. It works through standard HTML links or plays automatically when the web page loads. It is compatible with all major browsers and allows you to play different sounds for different HTML links. It also allows you to play many different music file formats like wav, mp3 etc.

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loadMovie() and unloadMovie() functions
Loading External SWF file The loadMovie() function is a little function that loads external .swf (also: .jpg, .png, etc) into a movieclip within the main movie. One advantage of this is that content is not loaded together with the main movie, which makes your swf smaller, and another is that by changing one swf you can alter many other swfs.

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Security and Flash
By protecting your SWF file, you not only restrict the theft of your material, from importing the SWF, but you also make it almost impossible to debug. The protection feature on flash 5 is extremely useful both locally and remotely (Via the Internet).

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How to make a Flash preloader using Actionscript 3
In this tutorial I will teach you how to make a Flash preloader using Actionscript 3. The idea is that we will create a very small swf that we will use to load your main swf file using the Actionscript 3 Loader class. Because the preloader will be a very small swf, you dont have to worry that it will take much time until the preloader itself is downloaded

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Protect SWF From Import
In this tutorial I will teach you how to protect your SWF file, so that people can't download and import it.

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Load external SWF
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to load an external SWF file using Actionscript 3.0.

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Create a Form with Conditional Logic and Send Data
You can create a form with conditional logic that allows the SWF file to respond to user interaction and send the form data from the SWF file to an external source. This tutorial shows you how to create a simple form. Before taking this lesson, you should be familiar with writing functions and variables; to learn about these, select Help > Flash Tutorials > Basic Tasks: Create an Application.

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Flash Background
Use Flash SWF file as the background of a web page like you would use BODY BACKGROUND tag by using Flash Designer.

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Transparent background in Fash
There are two ways to make transparent background in Flash, one is to export as a transparent file when you are publishing from Macromedia Flash and another to insert a line of code in the HTML. We will cover both ways in this tutorial.

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Video File Formats
A variety of video file formats, including AVI, MPEG, WMV/ASF, MOV/QT, RM/RMVB, DivX/XviD, MP4, 3GP, M1V, M2V can be imported to SWF Quicker. Here, I present you some detailed information about these video file formats.

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How to insert SWF files into Powerpoint
Importing Flash files created with Mix-FX into PowerPoint is a snap. By following these simple steps, you will be up and running in no time at all and impressing all of your visitors with your talents!

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How to use an external .swf as a library
I'm sure you already know that if you load an external .swf into your movie, you can then use actionscript in the main movie to attach movie clips in that movie's library IN THE LOADED LAYER ONLY.For instance, if I had a .swf called "myswf.swf" and it had a movie clip in it's library exported for actionscript and labeled "myMovie":

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Loading/Unloading external swf for newbies
This is for newbies like myself wanting to control several external flash swf files and relate them together. Example is I am doing a e-learning series and each module is an external swf (flash movie).

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Mmsave
This function is used internally by the Macromedia Answers Panel as part of the update process. This function is used to save a local copy of a .swf file or a local textfile. This function is exactly the same as the undocumented Flash 5 function, dashboardSave. It can only be used within the Macromedia Authoring Environment, therefore it can only be used in .swf files that are going to be displayed inside of a panel in the authoring environment.

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Easy to Implement Copy Protection
Burn the destination url into your SWF file.

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Text Enhancement / using styles and HTML pages in Flash
When we say we are enhancing text in flash by implementing styles to it, We certainly mean we have a styles (css) page and an HTML page, which is loaded into flash.

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Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to use Levels to load several Flash movies (or Jpegs) simultaneously into a single shock wave file (swf). How to switch between one Flash movie and another without loading a new web page. How to load a new movie into a movie clip of a pre-existing movie.

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Reusable flash buttons controlled by HTML
This tutorial will teach you how to create a flash button that could be reused as many times as you wish in a single HTML page to load different links each time.

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Mmsave in Flash MX
This function is used internally by the Macromedia Answers Panel as part of the update process. This function is used to save a local copy of a .swf file or a local textfile. This function is exactly the same as the undocumented Flash 5 function, dashboardSave. It can only be used within the Macromedia Authoring Environment, therefore it can only be used in .swf files that are going to be displayed inside of a panel in the authoring environment. With this function exposed, we can now create things such as self updating custom component user interfaces...

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Checking if a file exists with ActionScript
Sometimes it is necessary to determine if a file exists using actionscript, for example when you have a preloader cue, that loads a series of .jpgs one after another, if one of the files doesnt exist then the cue wouldnt traverse any further, you could of course use a timeout in that scenario but why not just check if the file exists before loading it, so that if necessary you can move onto the next item in the cue almost instantly. It is possible to determine whether a file exists using the success parameter of the onLoad event handler, the problem lies in the fact that the onLoad event handler for movieclips doesnt work, so to check if an .swf file exists, or an image, you will need to use this method...

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Sound controller
In this tutorial, we will learn, To attach external .mp3 file to swf, To create preloader for sound file, To create play / stop button, Volume controller and Balance (Pan) controller

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Pop Up Windows
There are a number of ways of creating Pop Up windows, but this is by far the best that I have come across. The code here gives you you complete control including the position on the screen. What's more you don't have to fluff around with adding JavaScript to the HTML of the web page. All the code is embedded in the button in the Flash file.

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Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips Flash tutorial
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to use Levels to load several Flash movies (or Jpegs) simultaneously into a single shockwave file (swf). How to switch between one Flash movie and another without loading a new web page. How to load a new movie into a movie clip of a pre-existing movie. To do this we need to look at the following ActionScript keywords.

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Integrating Video in a Flash Movie
Want to integrate video in your Flash movie? You have two choices. You can embed the video in your Flash document, or keep progressively download it into a SWF file using from a FLV (Flash Video) file. In this tutorial you'll learn to use the Media Playback Component to display a FLV file in a Flash movie.

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Load Movie Flash tutorial
In this toturial, you're going to learn how to load external swf files to your main swf and set a specific position for it.

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Preload External Flash Movies using Movie Clips
This tutorial shows you an easy way to load one Flash Movie into another. This loads the external Flash SWF Movie into a Movie Clip with the help of the Progress Bar Component. Loading a Movie into an MC means that you can address the Movie Clip in the ActionScript and change the Movie Clips properties. This MC includes the external swf file so any change that you impose on the Movie Clip also changes the external Movie nested within.

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Pop Up Windows
There are a number of ways of creating Pop Up windows, but this is by far the best that I have come across. The code here gives you complete control of your Pop Up window including the position on the screen. What's more you don't have to fluff around with adding JavaScript to the HTML of the web page. All the code is embedded in the button in the Flash file.

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Caching SWF files for Faster Movies Flash tutorial
Learn how to cache SWF files to speed up the loading and unloading of movie files that are used repeatedly throughout a site.

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Creating a small popup window in Flash
This tutorial allows you to create an HTML page that will then open up a fixed sized Flash movie. Within that movie is a button which calls a smaller HTML popup which can hold a video or photo..

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Calling Frames in Dynamic Movie (Flash Designer)
Display frames of external swf file with gotoAndStop and gotoAndPlay commands.

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Converting .swf to .avi/VCD
The long yet sure way to convert .swf to good quality .avi/VCD, retaining the frames per second and sounds.

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Simple forms and ecards
As you know it's not a simple task to setup a database on a web site to handle submissions from visitors.It calls a Javascript from the html form. That javascript call loads all the variable form the HTML page that are needed to make any form work.

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Wildform Flix Walkthrough
Welcome to Wildform Flix, the only application for encoding video into the SWF media format. Now you can stream your media to any platform without a download! Flix makes the encoding process incredibly simple. Just choose a file, customize the session settings, and click "encode"! Here, we have included a detailed description of Flix broken into two main sections: 1. an interface walk-through, which illustrates and describes the main features of the Flix encoder, and 2. an encoding session walk-through, which describes, in detail, all the steps required to encode an SWF using the Flix encoder.

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Create Flash Video
This tutorial you will learn how to import a video as an embedded file in a few minutes with Flash Maker -- Sothink SWF Quicker.

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Image Optimization Tips
We all want to put bitmaps into our sites, but they make the size of the final SWF unacceptable! Ok, here are some tips on how to do your images so that they don't bankrupt your file size!.

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Relative getURL links
If you are embedding a single .SWF file on pages in multible folders on your site then relative links will not work. This small script gets around that problem.

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