Tips and Tricks Adobe Flash Tutorials

Protect Your Flash Files From Decompilers by Using Encryption
In this tutorial I will demonstrate a technique I use to protect code and assets from theft.

FLASH TRICKS IN WEB ADVERTISING: FLASH BANNERS
Official Branding reveals the web design tricks that make products sell on the internet. Presented in this article are a few examples of techniques that make a flash banner visible even on the most crowded website Read the article, download the source files, adapt to your project and leave us a comment on how you believe the techniques can be improved so we can share it with the world.

Tweens in Actionscript 3
In this Flash tutorial you will learn about tweens in Actionscript 3.0.

Dynamically loading fonts with FontLoader and applying styles with CSS stylesheet in AS3
learn, how to easily load fonts apply a css stylesheet to a textfield.

How to Make a Flash Quiz and Publish to web in Minutes
New semester is coming. Most of teachers are preparing for the new semester. Why not take the technology to your classroom in the new year 2009? Here is a step-by-step tutorial of how to make a quiz and publish to web in minutes!

How To: Add Flash to your Blogger
Easy copy and paste of code and you can immediately display your wonderful flash works in your blogs!

Using input text
This flash tutorial will teach you about input text.

Using mask layers
This flash tutorial will demonstrate the use of mask layers. Mask layer reveal portions of the layer/layers below it. This effect is very simple but can be used to create lots of different mask effects.

Using motion guides
This flash tutorial will teach you how to use motion guides. Motion guide let you draw paths along which tweened instance, groups, or text blocked can be animated.

Using the scrollpane component
This flash tutorial will teach you how to use the scrollpane component. The scrollpane component allows you to have horizontal or vertical scrolling content.

Static and Dynamic Input Text Box
Basic Flash tutorial on how to use static and dynamic input text box.

Add beautiful clouds in your flash animation
Drawn clouds never look realistic. This tutorial will show you hot to create a realistic clouds from your drawings.

Tips and tricks for designing logos
A guide for how to go about designing a logo, it covers good font techniques, how to get inspiration, playing with layouts and how to simplify complicated objects for use in logos.

Passing Variables to Flash
As part of my site deign I was after a method in which I could have a reusable banner. This banner was going to be a flash program and would be cached for every page. I wanted to pass a variable to the flash program, and that would be the title for that page.There are several methods of passing variables to a flash program. The first method that I used, passed the variables via the HTML tag value.

System.showSetting
Weve all seen the somewhat mysterious settings menu, found in the right-click menu for the flash 6 player. Wouldnt it be nice, if you could force one of the system settings tabs open on a user? Well, you can, Macromedia havent told us about it in the official Flash MX Help included in the bundle, but its hiding in the player and it works like a charm...

Global Class Path
Are you sick and tired of writing huge file paths to locate your include files in the actionscript window? or are you the organised type that likes to keep everything grouped together in one place? Whatever the reason, the Flash MX Authoring tool has a neat little feature which you can use to organise your include files in one easy to access place..

Looping Movies With Flash MX 2004
It has come to my attention from working with Flash MX 2004 Professional that there isn't a quick way to loop a movie a certain amount of times without using action script. To find a better solution and a quick fix for a friend over the week I have come up with the following solution. While this is not the perfect solution to the problem it works and it works well.

Making Professional Graphics For Your Flash Movies
What is the difference between your regular ole Flash site and a professional one? Well, it largely comes down to opinion, but there are also some key elements to look at. I've learned after viewing Flash sites for years that the ones that catch readers' attention more than anything are the ones with great graphics. Yes, graphics and design, NOT programming.

How to insert SWF files into Powerpoint
Importing Flash files created with Mix-FX into PowerPoint is a snap. By following these simple steps, you will be up and running in no time at all and impressing all of your visitors with your talents!

How to put a picture underneath the SWF file
How to put an SWF file on top of a picture directly in your html page.Adding a picture underneath your Flash animations requires a bit of hand coding. You can do this in the html editing mode of your html editor. To do the coding by hand is a bit more complicated when you are used to the standard "insert flash file" features, such as available in Dreamweaver and Frontpage.