Creating movie clips Adobe Flash / Getting Started
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.
Preload External Flash Movies using Movie Clips Adobe Flash / Performance and Optimization
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.
Movie Clips Adobe Flash / Video
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.
Work with Objects and Classes Adobe Flash / ActionScript
Classes are the blueprint for objects in Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8. All objects in Flash have an underlying class; for example, all movie clips have a method called getURL(), and getURL() is defined in the class definition for a movie clip. Flash contains many predefined classes, such as the MovieClip class, the Array class, the Color class, and the CheckBox class. This tutorial will show you how to create and modify classes.
Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips Adobe Flash / Navigation
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.
Load Movies into Levels and Movie clips Flash tutorial Adobe Flash / Performance and Optimization
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.
Movie Clip in a movie Adobe Flash / Getting Started
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.
Getting an Index Position from an Array Adobe Flash / ActionScript
There are several times when I found it helpful to get the position of an item contained in an array. This quest becomes especially useful when you are dealing with multiple arrays with items in one array corresponding with items in another array.
Loading External Images Adobe Flash / Backend Integration
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.
How to use an external .swf as a library Adobe Flash / Tips and Tricks
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":