Change Flash Size at Run-time
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a Flash movie that changes it's size when the user moves the mouse over it and collapses when the mouse is out of the rectangle in Flash Designer.

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FLA Optimization - The Final Analysis Flash tutorial
How to automatically generate a file size report that gives you an appreciation of you animation in terms of sizes of objects and bandwidth.

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Controlling File Size in Flash Animations, Part 1
This tutorial shows you how you can keep file size small for Flash Animations in an easy to read and well illustrated article.

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Using XML for a Timesheet
This tutorial uses a public web service and therefore requires that you have an Internet connection. In addition, the tutorial won't work in a browser because of sandbox restrictions, but will work in the Flash authoring environment or the stand-alone Flash Player.

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Flash Actionscript Programming Basics
There are currently 2 versions of Actionscript. Actionscript 1.0 (AS 1.0) is the version that works with Flash MX. Actionscript 2.0 (AS 2.0) is the new language that ships with Flash MX2004. Most items in these tutorials will cover both AS 1 and AS 2. Where there is a difference I will indicate it. Actionscript 1.0 will work with Flash MX2004 but Actionscript 2.0 will not work with Flash MX.

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Flash Actionscript Programming Basics
There are currently 2 versions of Actionscript.Actionscript 1.0 (AS 1.0) is the version that works with Flash MX.Actionscript 2.0 (AS 2.0) is the new language that ships with Flash MX2004. Most items in these tutorials will cover both AS 1 and AS 2. Where there is a difference I will indicate it.Actionscript 1.0 will work with Flash MX2004 but Actionscript 2.0 will not work with Flash MX.

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Change the object size
Use this tutorial to see how to change the object size in flash 8, using the Action Script.

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Flash Actionscript 2.0 Programming Basics
This course is adapted from the book "C++ Primer" by Stanley Lippman.There are currently 2 versions of Actionscript. Actionscript 1.0 (AS 1.0) is the version that works with Flash MX. Actionscript 2.0 (AS 2.0) is the new language that ships with Flash MX2004. Most items in these tutorials will cover both AS 1 and AS 2. Where there is a difference I will indicate it. Actionscript 1.0 will work with Flash MX2004 but Actionscript 2.0 will not work with Flash MX.

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Lower your file size
When you use lots of images/sounds/video in flash your final file size can be huge!! What you can do is lower the quality of your images/sounds which can make a big difference on file size...Don't worry you will hardly see the difference too, you wont loose much quality :)

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Illustration Optimization
Many artists prefer using hand-drawn illustration techniques for their Flash graphics, but there's often a big hit on your file size when using these types of illustrations. In this tutorial, you'll learn why this is the case, and you'll also learn a couple of techniques for optimizing those illustrations in order to reduce file size.

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Flash and DHTML layers for IE
When I was creating a website I wanted to use flash and dhtml together in one page so I didn't need some anoying popup to display some databased or extern data. But It didn't work right away. Why? Because Flash is a plugin with ActiveX and it's always on top. Then I began looking for a solution on the internet and nobody could say how to do it right. On the macromedia site they gave me a sort of solution but it didn't work as I hoped it would, so i surfed the net over and over again but nobody could give a nice explained example how to do it so I wrote this javascript for you all.

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Removing Flash Movie Protection
For an attentive study of the work of others, an analysis of their design decisions, understanding one or another moment when Flash technology was chosen in their designs, it can be quite helpful to download what you find an interesting Flash clip in an editor and scrutinize it in frame by frame mode. I want to warn you from the get go that this does not decompile an SWF file in initial FLA format, but nevertheless it gives sufficient food for thought while studying great work.

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Protect your work, remotely!
Many flash designers have experienced the nagging feeling of uncertainty that comes with delivering some or all of a site before payment. While in an ideal world everything is solidly locked in with contracts, often deals are made via word of mouth, or the work is for a "friend" or aquaintance who may deserve more trust or special treatment. There's times where a newer flash developer may come across a contract-shy small-time client offering flash work which is highly desirable for portfolio, money, or experience reasons. Whatever the reason, covering your back end isn't a bad thing to do; and despite your best attempts, may become necessary.This tutorial assumed you know how to make movie clips and buttons, have a fairly decent grasp of actionscript, and are familiar with loading movies.

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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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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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3D Animation in Flash (Exclusive Tutorial)
There are a few ways to prepare 3D animated objects for use in Flash clips. Here we present, in my opinion, the most effective one, from the point of view of final results. The disadvantage of this method is that it is labour-intensive; its advantages - the minimum size of an SWF-file and full control of the process.

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Flash, Javascript, and the FSCommand
You can do a lot of great work in Flash, and it is a much richer and more dynamic media than straight HTML. However, there are still things that you can do in HTML and JavaScript that you can't do with just Flash. That being said, you can integrate HTML, JavaScript and Flash to create a great user experience. This tutorial will explain how to call JavaScript functions from within Flash to perform functions that Flash cannot do alone.

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Banner resizer effect in Actionscript 3
In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to create a banner resizer effect in Actionscript 3. This effect increase the size of the banner when the mouse is over, and restore the orginal size when the mouse is off.

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HOW TO Intercommunication between two separate SWF files.
This tutorial will work ONLY with movies exported in Flash 6 or bigger. This means it works only in Flash MX.

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Easy hitTest()'s
This tutorial makes it super easy to use hitTest()'s. The method shown will work for any shape of any size perfectly.

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Making a Flash Website
Alright, Finally I have decided to sit down and type this big tut on how to make a website in flash. I am using Flash MX 2004 and working on a mac os x but everything I do should work on Windows computers too.

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Animation - Tweening
The aim of the tutorial is to show people who are new to Flash how to create a simple animation using technique called Tweening. Tweening enables you to move objects, change their colour, size and transparency. In this tutorial I will show you how move text around. This tutorial is designed to teach the beginner fundamental processes used in creating Flash Movies, in particular an introduction to Motion Tweening, the Timeline and Symbols.

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Flash handwriting effect
This is a simple yet cool effect. This tutorial was done in Flash MX 2004, so the location of some of the menu bar things will be different in from MX, but of course it will work just as well in MX.

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Creating Walk Cycle with Poser
This tutorial will explain the process of creating a simple walk cycle with Poser Pro Pack 4 and bringing it into Flash. You'll also learn how to keep the resulting file size low. Poser, like all 3D applications, has the potential to export massive file sizes. By the end of this tutorial, you'll know how to create the Flash animation shown below.

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Create preloader in FlashMX
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a preloader that will return a percentage. This percentage can then be used for things such as a preloader bar. Preloaders that work out percentages are important because they give the users of your site feedback of how much of your flash content is loaded. For this tutorial I expect you to have a basic knowledge of flash and can navigate around freely within the flash interface.

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Detecting The Flash Plugin Without JS
Originally, to detect the Flash Plugin, it took complex JavaScript which took ages to code. This didn't always work because not all browsers are JavaScript enabled. This tutorial explores a way to detect if someone viewing a webpage has the plugin, using Flash itself.

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Motion Guides 101
This tutorial is to show you how to make a motion guide work properly in a flash document. It assumes that you know how to open flash, create symbols and successfully use the timeline.

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Creating a feedback form
This tutorial contains walk through images and they are referred to, in the tutorial, throughout.This guide endeavors to abandon the UI components of Flash 6 as your form elements, and instead create your own. Which, as a designer, is the purpose of web design! This tutorial is designed for Flash MX but the Action script will work in earlier versions.

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Timeline Shape Tween in Flash MX 2004
By tweening shapes, you can create an effect similar to morphing, making one shape appear to change into another shape over time. Flash can also tween the location, size, and color of shapes.

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Creating a colored gradient background for your Flash movie via ActionScript
In this lesson, I will show you how to create a background for your Flash document using no design tools at all! Besides being far more easy to change then a drawn graphic, this background created with ActionScript will adapt itself automatically to any size your movie may have.

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Working with flash timeline
In this tutorial you will learn how to work with flash timeline.

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Adding Text
Flash movies aren't just moving shapes, text can be used to give an extra dimension. In Flash, you can adjust the font, style, size, spacing, colour and alignment of your text like a word processor. You can also transform your text like in photoshop with such options as rotation, flip and skew. The text can also be broken apart into its individual characters and reshaped and what makes Flash soooo cool is that you can create editable text in movies which allow the users to add, modify and access text just like your boring old HTML web pages.

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Intro to PHP & Flash
This tutorial gives you some basic infomation about PHP and how to setup PHP to work with Flash.

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Intro to PHP & Flash
This tutorial gives you some basic information about PHP and how to setup PHP to work with Flash.

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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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JavaScript Popup Windows In Flash
Unfortunately, there's no way to create a customizable popup window using only Flash. But the good news is that with a little help from JavaScript, you can create popup windows with no scrollbars, no toolbars, no menubars, and you can even specify the size of the popup window. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do just that.

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Text Tweening - Size and Fade
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create two kinds of text tweening in flash MX.

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Flash Workspaces: the Complete Guide
Flash has several uses, and aware of that, Adobe created several, custom made, Work spaces for each different type of use. Here are some of them: * Animator * Classic * Debug * Designer * Developer

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Creating Eyes That 'Watch' The Cursor Flash tutorial
This tutorial, we hope you can learn somthing about Flash interactivity from it! This tutorial is split into three parts: The Movie Guidelines for setting up the movie, ready for adding our actions. The Good Stuff Here we work through the script that will generate the mouse interaction. Advanced Use Here i discuss some other ways that the skills taught in this tutorial can be developed to create more complex projects.

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Draw in Flash
When you draw in Flash, you create vector art, which is a mathematical representation of lines, curves, color, and position. Vector art is resolution-independent; you can rescale the art to any size or display it at any resolution without losing clarity. Additionally, vector art downloads faster than comparable bitmap images. This tutorial shows you how to create vector art of a bolt and logo.

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