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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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Stop Browser Caching 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...

Pop up Browser Windows in Flash
This tutorial will show you how to cause new browser windows to open up via javascript in your flash movie. You can adjust many aspects of the new browser window with this script.

Fit Flash movie in browser
To fit the animation in a browser, you can increase the pixel width of your animation to suit the size of the browser.

Score Posting
It's not hard to hack a score post to PHP. If you're posting the data, player = "Mark" and score = "50" so you can show the top 10 scores on your site, who's to stop someone from changing the posting data from 50 to 10000000000000? One system that I'd recomend as a quick fix is a secret password encrypted with your post. Then, when they check what data is posted they will see a bunch of numbers, that they can't change without your password.

Stop Action
In this tutorial we will learn how to stop action.

Stop Action
This tutorial will teach you how and when to use the stop action.

Shaking the Browser Window Part II
To shake your browser window (browsers v4 and above) CLick the Start button in the movie above! This is a very cool effect based on a free script from the Javascript Source. In a version 4 browser it causes the window to shake! There are three javascript functions here, of which you can put one or all into your html page which holds your flash movie.

Using Shared Objects in Flash
Shared Objects are very much like browser cookies, they are used to store a small amount of data on the user machine. This data can be retrieved by the Flash player when the SWF is accessed again at a later time. We could actually say that a shared object is a Flash cookie.

Organizing and structuring your Flash projects Flash tutorial
You have just got an amazing idea for a new exciting flash game and you start coding and designing frantically. Suddenly you stop and you remember that you had to stop working on your last project because you could not understand your code anymore; worse, you could not locate most of it at all. Without even mentioning the fact that you had erased some precious graphics by mistake because of the random naming convention you always apply to your library assets. Right, time for a change...a new Flash developer is about to be born.

Use FSCommand With the Browser
This tutorial was written for the Flash Designer software, FScommand doesn't work when the movie plays in a browser. FScommand works only with Macromedia standalone projector.

Motion Tween Methods in ActionScript 3.0 Play, Stop, Resume and Rewind *** COMPLETE ***
SCANNED SOURCE FILES AVAILABE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD. It is not only possible to create a motion tween from within Actionscript but is also possible to control it. There are several methods, such as play, stop, resume, fast forward, yoyo, next frame, previous frame to mention a few. How do we use them? How to apply them? In this music and narration tutorial from Say Web we see every detail on how it is done.

Make a big, cool promo button!
Design a powerful, eye-catching animated and rotating button.

Open Browser in Flash
The tutorial will teach you how to open a browser window using flash.

Creating a Basic Audio Box in Flash
This tutorial will teach you how to create an extremely simple music box in Flash with very little scripting. You can use this music box in your blog, in a forum, a portfolio, personal webpage, etc. I used this in my blog, I think that it gives it this atmospheric feeling to the blog, and it's cool to have one anyway! Our music box is going to be extremely basic, will contain two buttons and two frames: Play and Stop. You press play, the music starts, press stop and the music stops as well.

Cut-Out, Holey Text'
The effect below is a very simple yet effective way of 'jazzing-up' text that otherwise would look plain. Its very easy to do and looks cool and eye-catching; very good for logos:

Strobe Writing - Mask Layer
This tutorial uses six images, two words, eleven frames, and one mask layer to create its very simple yet very lively and eye-catching effect.

Shaking the Browser Window Part II
This tutorial will teach u how to shaking the browser window part 2.

Communicating between SWFs with the localConnection class
The localConnection class is not used a lot because a lot of Flash developers are not just aware of its existence. That class lets you communicate between 2 or more SWFs running on the same machine. This can be useful to develop complex interactivities between multiple movies running in the browser or even between a projector and movies running in a browser.

Actionscript 3 based Mini Audio player / MP3 player in Flash
We will be covering a lot of topics whilst creating mp3 player, topics include, List Component Loading external XML data to list component Sound, Sound Channel and Sound Transform class Add Event Listener method FLV Components, such as Play / Pause / Stop / Mute / Back button / Forward button / Slider. Volume Control

How to Make Full Color Rollovers in Flash
In this tutorial, we will create a Flash file with a simple, yet eye catching effect a black and white photo with full color rollovers.

Make an eye-catching 360 degree panoramic VR ad banner
I will show you in this lesson how to create a 360-degree pan banner. It is very easy to make - basically, this is an animation tutorial.

Finishing touches to space scenes
Let's face it, space scenes are everywhere. It seems to be the most widely created scene when it comes to 3D. Because of this, to create a good scene, in my opinion, you must create something unique and eye catching.

Using Local Shared Objects in Flash MX
Before Flash MX, it was pretty tricky to "remeber" the data in a Flash movie - it could be done with a standard browser cookie, which was hard to implement for someone with intermediate Flash skills, using a 3rd party script such as PHP or ASP or (in offline Flash applications) with the undocumented fscommand "save". Flash MX's Shared objects allow to store and retrieve the information within a Flash movie easily.

Understanding Data
Data refers to the numbers, strings, and other information that you can manipulate within Flash. Using data is usually essential when you create applications or websites. You also use data when you create advanced graphics and script-generated animation, and you might have to manipulate values that you use to drive your effects.

Using Local Shared Objects in Flash MX: The Flash Cookies
Before Flash MX, it was pretty tricky to "remeber" the data in a Flash movie - it could be done with a standard browser cookie, which was hard to implement for someone with intermediate Flash skills, using a 3rd party script such as PHP or ASP or (in offline Flash applications) with the undocumented fscommand "save". Flash MX's Shared objects allow to store and retrieve the information within a Flash movie easily. Lets see how it works.

Animated scrolling mask text ad banner
This tutorial how simple, yet effective putting a giant scrolling text in a banner is. It is even more effective and eye-catching when the text is a mask showing an image behind it! See the effect for yourself:

Detecting the Flash Player
For somebody to be able to see your Flash movie online they need the appropriate Flash player to be installed into the Browser. So if you create a movie in Flash 5 they will need the Flash 5 Player (or a more recent version of the player). If you create a Flash MX movie the Browser needs the Flash 6 Player and Flash MX 2004 needs the Flash 7 Player.

Game cheat guard
In this tutorial we will simply cover how to stop people from cheating in your games by right clicking and pressing play so that it jumps from the YOU LOSE screen to the YOU WIN screen and adding you points

Controlling loops across scenes
Make your loops play seamlessly between scenes, while maintaining start/stop controls without overlapping the track.

Actionscript Basics (Video Tutorial)
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Stop here, Play this, Move on
Create a movie clip in the library, call it mcWaitForMe.Put whatever you like into mcWaitForMe.Create 2 frames, a Keyframe followed by a normal frame.

Train Simulator
Make a simple train simulator with opening and closing doors, move it out of the station and even have an emergency stop. You must have a small bit of knowledge of ActoinScript for this.

Swift Tools FAQ
Your one stop FAQ for all your questions regarding the Swift Inspector and Generator.

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.

Volume Controls
The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to use ActionScript to play a sound file, stop a sound file and create a slider that is used to control the volume.

Turn on/off sound in flash
This tutorial gives us the chance to turn on and turn off the sound using play and stop buttons.

Proxy Scripting in Flash - Loading External Data
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Import and Play MP3 Sounds
This tutorial demonstrates how to import, play and stop a MP3 sound using Flash Designer.

Dynamic Event Handlers
Now dynamic event handlers are really one of the best things that Flash MX brought, as they allow us to change a handler at run time. You may wonder what this means. Well, it's simple, really. Imagine that you want a movie clip to go right, and when it reaches a certain position, make it stop.

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