Preloading Main Movie With Levels all Together in Flash MX
I have struggled so hard to find a cure for this. After trial and errors, thank God, I found a way to preload the main movie with levels all at the same. Some websites preload levels one at a time and it will get annoying for some users to wait every time for a different movie to load. If you follow this tutorial carefully, you should have no problem.

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Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to use Levels to load several Flash movies (or Jpegs) simultaneously into a single shock wave file (swf). How to switch between one Flash movie and another without loading a new web page. How to load a new movie into a movie clip of a pre-existing movie.

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Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips Flash tutorial
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to use Levels to load several Flash movies (or Jpegs) simultaneously into a single shockwave file (swf). How to switch between one Flash movie and another without loading a new web page. How to load a new movie into a movie clip of a pre-existing movie. To do this we need to look at the following ActionScript keywords.

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Movie Clip in a movie
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.

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Preloading movies and pictures with the MovieClipLoader class
In the world of Flash interactvities and multimedia applications it is always important to let the user know what is happening when the application needs to be paused while a fairly large amount of data is being loaded. To do that nothing's best than a nice preloading system.

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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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Simple PHP Live Counter For your Flash Movie
This tutorial shows you how to create a simple counter that you can use anywhere in your flash movie. The most obvious place is for either the intro or the main part of the Flash Movie that you are working with. You can also use this in other parts of your movie as well.

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Simple Preloading bar tutorial
Simple preloading bar. Using the more accurate getbytesloaded function rather then framesloaded to determine loadbar width/length/alpha, whatever you care to use.

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Communication between Flash Movies: Pop Ups
This tutorial shows you how to send information between different Flash Movies in different Windows (different web pages) such as: Pop Up Windows or other web pages. Theoretically there is no limit to what information can be sent between each Flash Movie, and you can control a Flash Movie on another web page, from your main movie on your main page.

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Creating a movie in a movie
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.

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Mouse Trails!
Keep your visitors amused with cursor trails, created using a the Duplicate Movie Clip Action, and you won't lose them while your main movie loads.

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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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Basic percentage textual internal preloader
Learn how to make an internal preloader - the one which shows how much of the movie it is itself a part of has loaded. Here, you will find the actionscript behind the preloading mechanism explained in detail.

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Using SWISH movies in Flash without Importing
I would like to propose to you a way of using SWISH movies into a standard Flash movie that is more flexible and reusable than importing. You use the LoadMovie action from Flash and keep the SWISH movie as an external .swf file.The method is simple. You create a placeholder movie clip in Flash and position it as you like in the main scene (giving it an instance name), and then add a frame action to load the SWISH movie into it.

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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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How to use an external .swf as a library
I'm sure you already know that if you load an external .swf into your movie, you can then use actionscript in the main movie to attach movie clips in that movie's library IN THE LOADED LAYER ONLY.For instance, if I had a .swf called "myswf.swf" and it had a movie clip in it's library exported for actionscript and labeled "myMovie":

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Different approaches to setting variables in a Flash movie Flash tutorial
A variable is a container that holds information, such as numerical or string data. This TechNote outlines the five main ways to set variables in a Flash movie.

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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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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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Movie Clips
A Movie Clip is a movie, like any of which we can have created until now in this tutorial, but this one is included within another movie and at the same time it can contain movies inserted in itself.

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Simple preloader
A preloader is a usually simple animation that is played during the rest of a file is downloaded. An animation is made attractive to keep a viewer occupied, especially when the size of a swf is substantial. There are various kinds of preloaders; from simple forms showing a loaded percentage to sophisticated animations. However, because preloaders are a part of the main movie, they should be as small as possible in terms of file size since the preloader itself needs to be downloaded prior to the rest of the movie.

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Load Movie Flash tutorial
In this toturial, you're going to learn how to load external swf files to your main swf and set a specific position for it.

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Attaching Movie Clips using ActionScript
The first thing to understand about this process is that you need to store all of your site's resources in one main folder on your hard drive and identify it in Dreamweaver to ensure that the links you set on your computer will work when your site is uploaded to a server.

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Consistent Animation of a Background Movie Clip Across Different Scenes
Simple lines of code to add to your movie clip to prevent the movie from starting over when switching between scenes or the movie is reloaded.

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How To Prepare, Test And Publish A Movie
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.

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How to Make A Movie Clip Move in a specific Path
This can help greatly with ease animating. Without wasting no time lets assume you have your movie on your stage. If you don't know how to convert an object into a movie clip. After you might have finish drawing your character select it and press f8. then select the movie clip radio button and press OK.

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Creating movie clips
Movie clips are one of the building blocks of Flash. You will use them all the time. Learn to create a movie clip symbol, make instances out of it, work with the library and more.

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Fading objects with actionscript code
While working with movie clips on stage, we you might want to fade the movie clip in or out instead of toggling its _visible property. There are two procedures to animate a movie clip

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Changing Colors for the Flash Movie
You need you movie clip changed color? Piece of cake! This tutorial will show you how to change movie color using simple actions script technique.

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Playing a Flash Movie Backwards
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.

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Preloading in Macromedia Flash MX2004
Create a preloader for your movies or flash animations.

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Smooth Preloader
This tutorial covers the making of a smooth preloading.

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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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Converting Animation on the Stage into a Movie Clip
If you've created an animated sequence on the Stage and want to reuse it elsewhere in the movie, or if you want to manipulate it as an instance, you can select it and save it as a movie clip symbol.

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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.

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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.

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Publishing a Flash Movie
There is no point in being able to create great Flash movies if you cannot Publish the movie to the web! This tutorial looks at the group of files that is created as Part of the Publishing process and goes through the steps that you need to know in order to get your Flash movie onto a web page or into other formats.

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JavaScript Pop-up windows (no external scripts) in Flash - a definitive guide
This tutorial describes a method of using JavaScript within your Flash movie without using any external JavaScript in the html your movie is embedded in. For the example we are going to be creating pop-up windows. This tutorial starts off with the basic method involved then goes into some more advanced effects. And finally finishes off by describing how to dynamically update the movie located in your pop-up with JavaScript from your parent movie.

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Scrolling A Movie
This page will help you make a scrolling movie clip. They're cool for displaying things in your movie. I needed to make this file because of how bad all the other tutorials were for this. This scroller will accomplish a couple of tasks * It will be able to scroll any kind of content without having to set anything different in the script * you will be able to "throw" the scroller * and it will be able to have links in it and change the content of what your scrolling this thing is actually pretty easy to do just as long as you know about the basic stuff in action script like setting variables and movie clip properties.

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Flash Sound for Dynamic Sites
Storing all the sound contents of your web site inside a Flash movie is a very efficient way to sonify a site. The main advantage of this approach is that you have a single resource to extract sound data from, thus simplifying programming. What you are going to learn in this document is how to create a framework that eases the update of the sound contents and allows you to keep up with layout and content changes made to a web site.

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