Playing a Flash Movie Backwards Adobe Flash / Animation
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to make a movie play in reverse. You will also learn how to create a controller Movie Clip, which will give an automated instruction from one part of a Flash movie to another, this is fundamental to programming in Flash and has many uses. You will also learn how to switch these instructions on and off. Examples of other Flash movies, that use controllers, are listed at the end of this page.
Preload External Flash Movies using Movie Clips Adobe Flash / Performance and Optimization
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.
Movie Clip in a movie Adobe Flash / Getting Started
This Flash Tutorial addresses how to make a movie in a movie. I've noticed in the forums that many beginners to Flash often conceptualize a Flash movie as one long movie with one time line. It is important beginners learn early that Flash may alternatively be conceptualized as many small movies, or movieClips, which are called to the main time line to play as needed. As you become more familiar with Flash you will learn that this is really a great way to create Flash movies. A few of the many advantages include better control of your main time line, and the ability to reuse movie clips in completely different Flash movies.
Creating a movie in a movie Adobe Flash / Getting Started
This is a tutorial is very simple for those new to flash. It is designed as a scaffolding task. This means that the learner will be able to apply a simply learned knowledge to many more complex ideas as they are encountered in more complex environments. We will accomplish two objectives in this tutorial. Objective one is to illustrate one way of creating a small secondary flash movie symbol, also called a movie clip using the 'create symbol function' in the library panel. The second objective is to illustrate how a movie clip is used as part of a main flash movie. The example we provided here is an animation that plays when you mouse over a button.
Preloader with Dial Display Adobe Flash / Preloaders
I wanted to make a Movie Clip follow a circular path for a preloader I created. Making the needle revolve around was childs play but getting a Movie Clip to track its outermost path was a little trickier. Using sine and cosine I created this but had a few problems along the way which I solved and decided to put into a tutorial in the hope of helping others.
Input Boxes Adobe Flash / Interactivity
How to create an input box and get buttons to change a movie clip based on what the user has typed into the input box. There is also a reset button which changes the movie clip to the original default.
How To Prepare, Test And Publish A Movie Adobe Flash / Getting Started
In this video clip tutorial you will learn the following:How to prepare items in the timeline window before publishing a movie in Flash,How to test a completed movie in Flash,How to preview a Flash movie in a browser for final testing.
Input boxes Adobe Flash / Interactivity
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create an input box and get buttons to change a movie clip based on what the user has typed into the input box. The reset button changes the movie clip to the original default position irrespective of the input box.
Content Based Soundtracks in Flash Adobe Flash / Sound
The technique allows the selection of which soundtrack to play to be based on what content is being displayed. It also allows the user to pause the movie or browse the site without interrupting the soundtrack, and to mute the soundtrack without affecting their ability to browse the site while still allowing sound effects like button sounds to play.