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Loading Images Dynamically Flash tutorialHow to make an image gallery, loading the images dynamically.
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.
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.
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.
Loading Sequence, Loading Animation or Preloader
This tutorial attempts to provide you with an efficient, frame independent and easily re-useable loading sequence solution.
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.
How To Create A Dynamic Web Site In Flash MX
This tutorial shows you how to create a basic website with nothing on the stage. This will involve dynamically loading jpegs and creating movieclips via actionscript. Some of the material covered will be advanced but I will go through it step by step.
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.
Dynamically loading fonts with FontLoader and applying styles with CSS stylesheet in AS3
learn, how to easily load fonts apply a css stylesheet to a textfield.
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.
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.
Opening Url in ActionScript 3 dynamically
How to open a URL dynamically using a custom class.
Control dynamically the FPS
The different methods to control dynamically the speed of an animation usually work by skipping frames. That means loss of smoothness, precision and quality. A better way is to modify the frame rate of the movieclip at runtime.
Pictures for the web
How to scan or find pictures to use in Flash or your web page. Including the different file formats and how to compress pictures.
Loading variables from a text field and Editing/Updating the values via Perl
This tutorial basically shows you how to load variables into a Flash movie (Been there done that - what's new) In the same movie you can also edit those same variables and have them be displayed within the Flash movie immediately. By using a really simple Perl script you can update the variables with one simple button click. In this way you can have information passed to your movie dynamically and update that information at anytime.
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.
Dynamically Controlling Volume via the Sound Object
The sound object is a very important aspect of Flash. Dynamically controlled sounds played directly from the library can only be realized by using this versatile object. Check out this tutorial and get a great start on using the sound object in your movies!
PushButton Tutorial Series - Loading Resources
In this tutorial we look at loading both external and embedded resources.
Scrolling photos loaded dynamically with ActionScript 3.
In this tutorial we will learn how to scroll some photos that we will load dynamically from an xml file and we will scroll the photos using a custom scrollbar. We will use again the Tweener class to add a nice transition. You can add as much photos as you like.
Play sound Dynamically
This Flash tutorial will teach you how to play sound dynamically.
Scrolling Dynamically Loaded Text
With this tutorial you will learn how to scroll dynamically loaded text using the loadVars class from an external Text File. Once you understand the concepts in this tutorial, they can be applied outside text and text boxes to graphics, swf files, and other objects.
AS3 Loading Animation Tutorial
This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to create loading animation using ActionScript3.0
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.
Mathematically generated pictures
Learn how to apply sine and cosines function for creating some pictures by Drawing API.
Pictures for the Web
There are many ways of getting pictures for your web page or Flash file, the most simple is to scan an image. You can also get images from the web as there are millions out there. This tutorials covers scanning and copying images from the web. These will be Bitmap images (pictures which are made of thousands of dots of colour), not Vector images, which are made up of mathematical co-ordinates.
Dynamically centre object in Actionscript 3
In this tutorial you will learn how to use to centre an object dynamically in Actionscript 3.0.
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.
Loading HTML-formatted text in a dynamic text field
Although it is very easy to format your text at authoring time, it is not the case when you load text dynamically in a dynamic text field. The best way to format your text in that case is to use HTML. The following tutorial shows you how to format and load HTML-formatted text in a dynamic text field.
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.
Attach movie clip dynamically in Actionscript 3
In this tutorial you will learn how to attach a movie clip dynamically in Actionscript 3.0.
Building Preloaders and Progress Bars in Macromedia Flash
One of the unique features of web content built with Macromedia Flash is the ability to control when and how the content loads. When loading a heavy HTML page, the user is usually stuck looking at a blank window until the content starts appearing. Flash allows for the creation of animated preloaders, which give the user precise information about the progress of the loading process.
Loading an external movie into Flash
Learn loading an external movie into flash.
Pictures transformation
This tutorial will teach you how to create a pictures transformation using Blur Filters Effect in flash 8. You can use this tutorial for some presentation, intro....
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.
Loading External Images Flash tutorial
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create a Flash Movie which loads an Array (list) 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.
Transferring data across domains using crossdomain.xml
In many occasions you might want a SWF to be able to retrieve data from another domain, by loading variables from a text file for example, or you might want to send data from a Flash email form to a PHP script that is sitting on another domain.With Flash player 6 a security sandbox implemented a restriction : a movie sitting on one domain would be prevented from loading data from another domain. In Flash Player 6, sub domains of the same parent domain could access each other's data this is not the case anymore starting with Flash player 7, domains must be identical for data to be read.
Smart Pad
Watch Flash dynamically redraw your sketch.
Draggable Masks
Learn how to dynamically create a mask and drag it across your movie.
Create a Drop Down Menu for showing pictures
This tutorial shows how to use drop down menu using simple actionscript. When you click the button, it will show a drop down buttons which every button can be clicked to show different pictures.
Use Array Batch to Load External Pictures
Welcome to Flash tutorial center! Is it a little bit complex for you to load external pictures with loadmovie function? Take the following tutorial, you will feel the power of using array batch, which makes it much easier.

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