Loading External Images
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create a Flash Movie which loads an Array of external images such as Jpegs or Gifs. These images would then be loaded individually into the Flash Movie as and when the user wished to look at them. This makes the Flash Movie much smaller and reduces the pre-load time for the Flash Movie. The individual images would each have there own pre-loader so that there is a small delay before loading individual images but no long wait at the beginning of the Movie.

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Loading External Images Into Flash Using the Loader Component
This tutorial will teach you one of the easiest methods to load external SWF files and images into the Flash movie, we will use the ready-made Loader Component to load an external JPEG file into our movie at run time.

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Loading External Images using Flash MX 2004 Components
This tutorial shows you how to load external images into Flash using an Array (list) and Flash MX 2004 Components. This means that the pictures are not loaded preloaded into Flash. Therefore the Flash Movie does not have to load all the pictures before you can start to view the first picture. If you preload all the images into FLash there can be a long wait before the user can view the first picture.

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Proxy Scripting in Flash - Loading External Data
This tutorial/article attempts to explain one method of loading external data (different server/domain) into a Flash movie. This allows for constantly changing updated data to be included in your flash movie that is based on an external data source.

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Explained simple: Loading external .swf's in the right position
How to load an external flash movie in the right place. Useful for chunking up pieces of data to decrease loading time and improve interactivity, for instance, loading text and pictures separately.

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Loading an external movie
There are two methods of loading external movies into Flash: Loading into an empty movie clip (mc) or loading into another level.

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Loading External Sources - Images and SWF
A simple tutorial on how to load external data into Flash movie. This tutorial will teach you how to load images and swf files.

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Loading External Texts into Flash Using the LoadVars() Class
This tutorial will teach you how to load content from an external text file dynamically into a Flash movie. The Flash Player is capable of dynamically loading various forms of external data such as texts, images, and many other forms at run time. Viewing your content this way makes the updating process of your website much easier as you do not have to generate new SWF files using your source FLA each time you want to update the content and instead simply edit those small text files that should have all the written content of your website. The text in the following example is being loaded at real time from a separate text file located on the server.

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Password Protection / Loading External Text
In this tutorial you will learn how to password protect your Flash Movie or Application by loading in a password that is located in an external text file. This will be presented in a step-by-step format.

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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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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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Loading JPG images with preloader
In this tutorial, you will learn a cool thing that Flash can do: to load an external JPG (or JPEG, as you wish) image while the main SWF is running.

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Loading External Data into Flash
Below is the Tutorial of how Flash obtains data from External sources. You might be wondering how a flash (.SWF) file obtains data from remote files.

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Loading external swfs from an external dynamic loaded text file
Say we have an external text file that is dynamically loaded into flash. Now say we want to have a link from this text file, which loads up external movies. If this is our situation then we can use "asfunction" in our text file to communicate a general function with flash.

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Loading an external movie into Flash
Learn loading an external movie into flash.

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Loading Images Dynamically Flash tutorial
How to make an image gallery, loading the images dynamically.

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Preloading External Jpegs or SWFs into Flash
If you wish to preload Jpeg images or Flash Movies which are stored outside the Flash file use this preloader tutorial. This tutorial will show you how to use the Flash MX04 Loader Component to preload and place external files into your Flash Movie. The tutorial also shows you how to use the progressBar component.

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Loading an external mp3 file
Learn how to load external mp3 files in your Flash movie, so that you can have background music in your site or anything else you imagine!

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Loading Images into Stage using ActionScript 3.0
Loading Images into stage is much similar to loading text or html, we need a url request, a loader and then addchild. On this video tutorial we show how simple it is. Works for png, jpg and bmp.

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Loading External Text
This tutorial would teach you how to read external text files into your flash movie, the benefit of this feature makes it possible for you to update the content of your flash website without editing the flash file itself, but just editing text files that has the text of the website.

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Creating a Dynamic Portfolio in Flash
We previously published a tutorial on how to create a simple portfolio in Flash that features a selection of thumbnails and an image display unit. This tutorial will teach you how to create an advanced portfolio that dynamically loads images and text from external sources. An example SWF movie could be seen below featuring images and texts which are being loaded at real time from external image and text files.

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Preloading External Images in Flash Using the MovieClipLoader Class
This tutorial will teach you the basics on how to use the MovieClipLoader class to load an external image in Flash at run time.

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Movie and Image Preloader Woes
Yes, by now we should all know that Flash MX can load .jpg files dynamically into a flash movie aswell as being able to load external .swf files, but as always, when it comes to loading large files from external sources, it is good practice and almost standard to create a preloader for the file.

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Accessing ID3 Tags (external .mp3)
In Flash MX you have the capability to load an external mp3 sound file into a flash movie using the Sound.loadSound() method. In the latest release of the Flash 6 Player it is possible to access the ID3 tags embedded in an mp3 encoded file. Unfortuneatley you cannot access the ID3 tags in an mp3 file until it has *fully* loaded, this is fine when you are using the Sound.attachSound() method but it causes problems when you are loading an external sound into the player...

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Loading External Symbols During Playback
If you want to create flash 5 movies that contain dynamic content (i.e. are different each time they are viewed) then there are two major approaches to take.

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Preload External Jpeg with Scroll Bars
This preloader tutorial shows you how to load an external image in to the Flash file and use Scroll Bars to move the image. This give you the opportunity to load over-sized or Panoramic images. This uses the Flash MX 2004 Scroll Pane component.

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PushButton Tutorial Series - Loading Resources
In this tutorial we look at loading both external and embedded resources.

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How to Use Flash MX Sound Objects
This tutorial contains much of what you need to know about Sound Objects in Flash MX and later. It starts with the basics and walks you through many examples from looping, FF & REV, pausing, preloading, loading and preloading external files, creating interfaces, displaying timers, MP3 ID3 tags and much more.

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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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Create an excellent menu/preloader system
Learn to make a superb navigation system for loading external content in Flash!

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Loading External Text In Flash Using AS3 URLLoader
This tutorial will teach you how to use the URLLoader Class to load basic texts and a variable from a text file.

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Loading XML data in Flash using ActionScript
XML can be used to load external data in Flash to provide an easy method for structuring content so that it is easy to understand, process, and update.

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Preloading External Flash Movies Flash tutorial
This preloader tutorial shows you how to load an external Flash file into another Flash file with a preloader. This gives you the opportunity to break your Flash Movie into several more manageable parts rather than having one very large Flash file. It also means that the user need only wait for that section of the Movie that they wish to view to preload rather than waiting for a much larger file to load.

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Controlling flash from html
Say we have an external text file that is dynamically loaded into flash. Now say we want to have a link from this text file, which loads up external movies or we simply want to controll our flash from an external text that we have loaded; if this is our situation then we can use "asfunction" in our text file to communicate a general function with flash.

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Flash Interactive Collage
Learn to make a user interactive collague photo gallery in flash. Includes lessons on preloaders, filters, movieclips, doubleclick functions, dynamically loading images and more.

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Loading external swfs in the right position
This is a simple tutorial answering a simple question: How can I place a loaded movie in the position I want? It's about the loadMovie action. The loadMovie loads external swfs in movie clips of our movie.

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Interfacing Flash with External Data Sources
This tutorial will show you some ways in which Flash can use ActionScript to make use of external data sources.

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Creating dynamic charts from an external file
This tutorial shows you how to set up the Flash MX charting components to take data from an external source such as an ASP page or text file.

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Loading Sequence, Loading Animation or Preloader
This tutorial attempts to provide you with an efficient, frame independent and easily re-useable loading sequence solution.

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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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