New methods: SetInterval, ClearInterval, clear (part2)
New methods for timing and drawing.

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Preloader Design
you get a smooth preview of artwork in local internet, but it seems stopping and starting at intervals after it uploads to internet? In this tutorial, you will get some ways of designing preloader.

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update AfterEvent Explained
It appears that most coders use it, but 50% if not more dont actually know why they are using it, what it does or when they should use it. In the latest article for a regular column in a uk based internet magazine; dot net, a self proclaimed actionscript expert implemented updateAfterEvent in his mouse recording.

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update AfterEvent Explained in Flash MX
It appears that most coders use it, but 50% if not more dont actually know why they are using it, what it does or when they should use it. In the latest article for a regular column in a uk based internet magazine; dot net, a self proclaimed actionscript expert implemented updateAfterEvent in his mouse recording example as follows:

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Slide Show
Before you open the Flash and go to work, Find a five pictures on the internet or somewhere. After you have found that pictures, set their dimensions in photoshop or any other graphic program (could be done in flash also) to 300x225px.

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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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Flash Detection on IE w/o relying on VBScript
Internet Explorer's support of the Navigator object is limited. It seems a lot of programmers try to implement VBScript via javascript and pass variables back to the javascript. Seems cumbersome and often doesn't work. Here's a new way.

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ComboBox Component Interactivity
In Flash, the ComboBox component is basically nothing more than your basic dropdown list that you see in forms on the Internet. In this video, you'll learn how to use this component to communicate with another movie clip on the stage.

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Rotating Star With Filter Effects
We're going to make a rotating star, ideal for "Sign Up" buttons. They are commonly used around the internet, though often they do not animate. For this tutorial you should know the basics of Flash - how the tools work and how to use the features.

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Creating A Sound Board
You see them all over the internet. Sound boards are a bunch of sounds, like movie sound bites and celebrity quotes, that play when you click certain buttons. I'm going to show you how to make a fully working sound board of your own.

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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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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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Publish Settings (Video Tutorial)
Take this video tutorial to learn how to publish your flash work on internet/interanet.

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Making a Banner
You see them all over the internet. Banners are everywhere. We're going to look at making a professional banner in Flash. It could be used on your website, if you have one, or you could have it put on other sites to get more visitors to yours. In any case, banners don't have to look boring. In this initial lesson, we won't animate it, that will be in a later lesson.

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Philter's Flash_XML Tutorial in Flash MX
In the current age of technology, with all of the cool toys and gadgets that are available, all of these things exist for one purpose...to allow us to more easily access information. Today, we are able to acquire information more quickly and easily than we has ever been possible in the past. Largely, this has to do with the internet and the fact that you can access information anywhere in the world from anywhere else in the world in literally the blink of an eye.

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Improving Flash Cursors
One of the cool things with Flash is the ability to hide the cursor. However as many people will tell you this can cause some issues with usability. One of the things with the internet and the cursor is that people get used to having the cursor change once it moves over an area that is "hot" (ie a button).

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Dealing with Data Types
In this tutorial we are going to discuss and learn about one of the new introductions to Flash Actionscript. Some basic data types existed in Flash 4 such as strings, numbers and boolean though they weren't formalised until Flash 5. As you have probably figured out, Flash 5 Actionscript is a lot more complex that its Flash 4 parent but it's complexity delivers something the internet needs - more power :)

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Get flv files onto iPod
FLV is a "Flash Live Video" file. It is a format that is designed for web playback, offering high rates of compression. so it used more and more popular in the internet. But How can enjoy the flv files on the iPod? we should use a FLV to Video Converter.

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Floating Flash Over Your Webpage in Flash MX
This tutorial is designed to teach you the process of manipulating your flash movie so that It will have the ability to float over your webpage.By the end of the tutorial, you will have the ability to play your Flash movie containing transparency in Internet Explorer (Only works in IE on Windows OS).

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Building Easy Text or Images Scrolling with Flash MX 2004
There are many websites in the Internet built using Macromedia Flash technology. You probably saw different types of scrolling on those websites. I would like to show you one of the easiest ways to create a scroll bar with the mask. It may be used not only for text scrolling but you may also put images into that scrolling.

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Building Easy Text or Images Scrolling with Flash MX 2004
There are many websites in the Internet built using Macro media Flash technology. You probably saw different types of scrolling on those websites. I would like to show you one of the easiest ways to create a scroll bar with the mask. It may be used not only for text scrolling but you may also put images into that scrolling.

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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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FLASH TRICKS IN WEB ADVERTISING: FLASH BANNERS
Official Branding reveals the web design tricks that make products sell on the internet. Presented in this article are a few examples of techniques that make a flash banner visible even on the most crowded website Read the article, download the source files, adapt to your project and leave us a comment on how you believe the techniques can be improved so we can share it with the world.

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Rotating Star With Filter Effects
Today we're going to make a rotating star, ideal for "Sign Up" buttons. They are commonly used around the internet, though often they do not animate. For this tutorial you should know the basics of Flash - how the tools work and how to use the features. I used Flash 8 to create this, as Filters were involved, which are exclusive to Flash 8. You can still create the effect in MX, without Filter effects. To view an example of what we will be creating, click here.

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Create a 3D Sliding Puzzle Game with ActionScript 3.0 and Away3D
Flash Platform is a great tool to create games, either for internet or mobile content. With the introduction of Flash 3D Engines, the ability and success of creating flash games is even bigger. In this tutorial we are going to build up a simple sliding puzzle. Puzzle images are dynamically loaded and sliced so you can easily use your own images if you like. Learn, try and leave a comment showing your results.

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Bringing SOAP to Flash 5
Flash 5 has support for XML communications over HTTP. However, sadly enough, there is no support for setting HTTP headers. The 'SOAPAction' HTTP header is however essential if you want to communicate with SOAP-compliant webservices. And what is very popular these days ? Yes, SOAP-based webservices... And why are they popular ? Because they allow you to access business logic functionalities (for example doing a query to retrieve flight availability or the wheather in your city or live stock quotes or ...) over the Internet in a structured form (in other words without having to do screen- or HTML- scraping).

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Stop Browser Catching Data
Are you sick of your browser caching loaded variables? are you sick of loaded movies being cached? Then heres how to stop the browser from caching your data. The browsers cache comes in handy for slow connections, all the requests you make to a webserver are stored in a local folder on your computer, so that the next time you make the same request, the file can be loaded from the local hardrive as opposed to having to download the data over the internet again.

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How to put video on your website?
FLV (Flash Video) is a proprietary file format used to deliver video over the Internet via Adobe Flash Player (formerly known as Macromedia Flash Player) version 6, 7, 8, or 9. Recently a number of notable Websites, such as Youtube, Google video and Reuters, use FLV format.If you don't want your video to be watermarked by Youtube or other video hosting website, you should convert your video yourself, and host the converted FLV video yourself.

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Flash Fonts
When you create a html document in a certain font and want to share it with others on the internet, they wont be able to view the font unless they download it and install it on your computer. Unless of course you embed the font within the document.Flash also allows you to embed fonts, the difference is that while embedding fonts in HTML is problematic, Flash allows you to embed fonts flawlessly. So the person viewing the flash file can any fonts used within it without having the font installed on their computer.Despite the fact the flash makes embedding fonts so easy, they remain one of the most frequently reported sources of problems on flash forums.

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