Interactivity Adobe Flash Tutorials

Holiday card animation
It's holiday time and I make a decision to make some simple, but in the same time very attractive and practical holiday card.

Mouse Dragging
This tutorial will show you how to create mouse dragging with Actionscript.

Bezier Curve
Using the combination of drawing script and mouse detection script, this tutorial will create a crazy bezier curve line that will follow your mouse cursor.

Go To Different Spots
A tutorial about dynamic movement with Actionscript. We will learn how to 'go to different spots of an image' in this tutorial. This is used widely in today's websites' layout.

Loading External Sources - Images and SWF
A simple tutorial on how to load external data into Flash movie. This tutorial will teach you how to load images and swf files.

Mouse Follower
This tutorial will show you how to create a movie clip that will follow your mouse pointer. The Mouse Follower is useful for menu on-the-go.

Flash Menu and Mouse Customization
Tutorial on how to create drop down menu and custom your mouse pointer.

Mouse Over
In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a flash mouse over effect. It is a very simple effect no action scripts, just some text, buttons and movie frames. Its a nice effect if you have a flash gallery or a display with a lot of images.

Dragging Effect
In this tutorial I will teach you how to create a dragging effect using Flash 8, its a simple effect that you can add to multiple project.

Flash Painting Program
Create a simple dynamic painting program in Adobe Flash. Use your mouse to paint on a simulated canvas.

Create, Validate and Email a Form in Flash
See how to insert edit fields and a button to create a form. ActionScrip validates the form and sends it by email.

Draw in a Flash movie
This tutorials illustrates how to use onMouseMove onMouseDown and onMouseUp events to draw lines in a Flash movie.

Drag And Drop Items
Dragging and dropping is used everywhere. Not only in general file moving and placing, but also within games. It my be necessary to move a certain item elsewhere for a puzzle or adventure game. We're going to take a look at the basics of dragging and dropping in Flash. It is a very simple effect to conquer. It only requires a few lines or Actionscript to work, and I shall explain what the Actionscript is telling Flash to do.

Crosshair Target Custom Cursor
Today you'll learn how to create a custom cursor, to replace the regular white pointer. This is often seen on Flash websites and within games, if the white cursor is out of place or takes away from the theme of the site. This tutorial was made with Flash Professional 8, although most, if not all can be done in previous versions.

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.

Scale Menu
In this tutorial you will learn how to make skale menu.

Making a Simple Login
This tutorial shows the most basic way to create a user login interface using nothing but flash and its components.

Color Flash Light For Flash MX
A very useful brief tutorial .

Improving Flash Cursors
One of the cool things with Flash is the ability to hide the cursor. However as many people will tell you this can cause some issues with usability. One of the things with the internet and the cursor is that people get used to having the cursor change once it moves over an area that is "hot" (ie a button).

Working With The Accordion UI Component
We are going to make a simple site using the new accordion UI component in Flash MX 2004 Professional. In this tutorial I will assume that you have basic knowledge of Flash MX 2004 Professional and can get around the interface pretty easily.