Working With XML Adobe Flash / Tips and Tricks
Sometimes you need to pass a flash file information. Perhaps you're making a flash-based photo gallery or an mp3 player. Maybe you want to use flash to parse server information. Whatever you need to do, it may make the most sense to use XML to pass your data to flash. Using XML is good because it's easy to parse as flash has built-in XML tools. In order to use an XML file, you need flash to do 2 things: read it and parse it. Here's an example of the code you'd need to read in an XML file (called info.xml) and parse it.
Working with XML Adobe Flash / Backend Integration
Sometimes you need to pass a flash file information. Perhaps you're making a flash-based photo gallery or an mp3 player. Maybe you want to use flash to parse server information.
Philter's Flash_XML Tutorial in Flash MX Adobe Flash / Backend Integration
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.
Plan View Flash World Adobe Flash / Games
This tutorial will demonstrate one way in which a Flash world can be created where a plan view person walks across an unlimited world created by you. Refer to the attached .fla to see the game in action.
Pass Parameters into your Flash File at runtime Adobe Flash / ActionScript
One way you can get around not being able to pass a parameter in is to add a "querystring" to your swf src in the embed tag / param movie in your object tag and then look at the _url property for the movie and strip off the query part.
Mouse control and actionscript Adobe Flash / ActionScript
Our world of Flash interactivities will suddenly shrink if our mouse was taken away from us, the mouse is with the keyboard a very important input device that let us converse quickly and efficiently with our Flash applications. Fortunately actionscript has some built in methods, properties and events that are going to be very handy to give us control and information on the mouse activity.
The Drawing API Adobe Flash / ActionScript
Using the drawing API is not the easiest thing in the world, but once you get the hang of it, you can produce very easily lots of cool all-code movies.
Communication between Flash Movies Adobe Flash / Backend Integration
This tutorial shows you how to send information or instructions from one Flash Move to another on the same web page. There is theoretically no limit to what information can be sent between each Flash Movie. You can control and communicate between any two Flash Movies on the same page or on different pages. It is also be possible to communicate between more than two Flash Movies.
Using CGI Forms in Flash Adobe Flash / Backend Integration
This tutorial will show you how to use a CGI script that not only sends the form information but returns information back to the Flash 4 movie instead of sending the user to an html page.
Scrolling Text [ flash 5 ] Adobe Flash / Text Effects
Often asked is this "How to I make scrolling text in Flash?", and well there are a number of ways. However the easiest is using the built in scroll and maxscroll properties. Every text field automaticaly has these properties, and when can use simple commands in flash to controll them.