Dynamic Content Adobe Flash Tutorials

Check if the email address exists using web services
In this tutorial I am going to teach you how to check if the email entered by the user exists or not.

Picture or object gallery
Load pictures or other objects with XML into flash.

create a flash site
create a website that is entirely flash- no html, no anything else just flash.

Importing txt Files - The Easy Way
Import txt files into flash the easy way. It will show you how you can keep a flash based website up to date without updating the swf file.

ScrollPanes and dynamic content
An easy way to make the scrollPane component load dynamically generated content. Really helpful if you are using xml to create a dynamiclly generated thumbnail gallery that needs a scrollbar.

Random colors custom ad banner with time counters
In this easy lesson made for Flash MX, Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8 I will show you how to create a Flash banner ad that fits specific needs of the website it will be displayed on. The unique behaviour of this banner is that it will perform a random display of colored stripes for 9 seconds, after which it will come to a standstill.

How to Send Variables Between Flash and PHP
I had to learn a lot of this on my own via trial and error since there was little available on the net that adequately explained how it works. I'm hoping this guide will save someone the hours of hammering that I spent. Once you get a few fundamental things down, I think you will find, as I have, that a flash/PHP combination is easy to set up and offers a lot of flexibility. I included a very simple flash movie and script to go along with this guide. I recommend downloading and briefly going over all of the files before reading on.

Checking if a file exists with ActionScript
Sometimes it is necessary to determine if a file exists using actionscript, for example when you have a preloader cue, that loads a series of .jpgs one after another, if one of the files doesnt exist then the cue wouldnt traverse any further, you could of course use a timeout in that scenario but why not just check if the file exists before loading it, so that if necessary you can move onto the next item in the cue almost instantly. It is possible to determine whether a file exists using the success parameter of the onLoad event handler, the problem lies in the fact that the onLoad event handler for movieclips doesnt work, so to check if an .swf file exists, or an image, you will need to use this method...

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...

LoadVars.decode
Another hidden away feature of Flash MX, this time a method of the LoadVars object. This little method, is the method that the LoadVars object uses internally to decode your name/value pairs into object properties and values...

Flash Winamp Sig
Learn how to make a winamp sig from flash!.

Dynamically Attaching Components
How to create a attaching components.

Flash Javascript API > An Introduction
With the release of Flash MX 2004, a new arena was opened up for Flash Programmers called the Flash Javascript API. The programmers can now extend the Flash authoring environment itself to execute customized tasks making life much easier.

Content Manager Flash and PHP
This tutorial will show you how to create an external admin panel to modify content of a Flash movie without the need to edit an .fla file. There are several intermediate to advanced methods that will be covered, so a moderate understanding of Flash and Actionscript is presumed.

Loading External Data into Flash
Below is the Tutorial of how Flash obtains data from External sources. You might be wondering how a flash (.SWF) file obtains data from remote files.

Simple Flash XML Photogallery
This tutorial you will have created a bare-bones flash photo gallery which will look something like this. The thumbnails, images and titles are loaded and setup dynamically with data provided by a xml file.

Creating a simple Form in Flash 4
This tutorial will show you how to create a simple form in Flash 4. What we'll do is create one form and several fields called Name, Homepage, email, Comments, and the buttons Send and Clear.

Creating Dynamic Graphs in Flash
This very useful technique will enable you to create updateable graphs in Flash.

Create a Dynamic Drag and Drop Movie
This is a tutorial demonstrating how to create a dynamic drag and drop movie. It will enable you to specify just how many targets and objects you want. The program will then dynamically place then on the screen at a location you specify.

Opening Files from their Default Applications
This tutorial was written for use with a program I authored myself DefaultApp.exe Beta.