New great article is out talking about optimisation tips in AS3 – http://www.insideria.com/2009/04/51-actionscript-30-and-flex-op.html
also very nice suggestions and speed test can be found here – http://osflash.org/as3_speed_optimizations
Category Archives: Tutorials
What’s possible in 25 Actionscript lines? Vote for favorites!
Second ever 25 lines AS contest produced 12 incredible finalists as it was expected. I will hardly decide on favourites but I surely will vote and please you do that too because this contest deserves attention. Respect for all the good word, and yes, you can have the sources too!
Flex in a Week – Adobe Training Course for Flex 3 [video]
Flex in a Week is a set of more then 40 tutorials from Adobe. Lessons cover complete Flex 3 training. I must say I am impressed with Flex in a Week because it’s just goes directly to the points leaving out any unnecessary talk behind. Great stuff, Adobe should release this kind of tutorials for every of their major products.
So, how to get Flex in a Week… I’ve taken a guide from Anand Vardhan blog
It is available through Adobe Media Player, which is a great product itself.
- Install AMP
- Click “My Favorites” menu at the top.
- Click “Add RSS Feed” at the bottom.
- Paste http://sessions.adobe.com/FlexInAWeek/feed.xml
Problem is that AMP can cache only 6 videos at a time, but you can always access cache folder of AMP and copy files to your own folder which I am doing now so I can have all 40 videos all the time 🙂
EDIT : thanks to jase another way is to open Feed and download flv movie directly 🙂
Flash AS3 Beginners Tutorial – Adding library item to Stage [VIDEO]
Mirko Fisic did another nice and simple tutorial for understanding class creation and adding library item to Stage in Flash CS3, Actionscript 3 version. First he explains how to create a class, extending object and then he creates simple MovieClip in Library which then is added to stage. At the end, MovieClip acts as a Label, having its own method to set Label Text. Check it out, Mirko did again great work!
In Serbian / Na srpskom :
Mirko Fisic donosi jos jedan sjajan video tutorijal za pocetnike u Flash-u verziji 9 odn. Actionscript-u 3. Video tutorijal pokriva kreiranje nove klase, dodavanje simbola iz biblioteke (Library), i kreiranje metode koje tom simbolu menja tekst unutar njega. Jednostavan i efektan tutorijal koji Vam moze pomoci da savladate jedan od osnovnih koraka u Flash-u.
Ukoliko imate pitanja o tutorijalu slobodno ih postavite na Hagane Flash Forum-u
Mirko and Alex support FlashDevelop, you can support it too.
Flash 9 – AS3 beginners tutorial : Creating Document Class [video]
My friend Mirko from i-do2.com created video tutorial for beginners in AS3 Flash 9 software. He will gradually continue to introduce this wonderfull technology to interested people out there.
Thanks Mirko for this and keep it going !
TAKE A LOOK AT THE VIDEO TUTORIAL :
How to create document class in Flash 9
subtitles are available only in serbian if you press little button in bottom right corner with CC written on it
English subtitles will come soon if you show interest in Mirkos effort
Simple Flash Example – Menu with library items and little bit actionscript
I did some simple example for beginners in Flash.
It is an example of a menu, standard looking but interesting. This example involves a little bit of core Actionscript skills, and it’s a more designer concept of programming in Flash.
menuItem library symbol contains a menu button
menu library symbol contains menu with menu items and actionscript code
MouseControl class – easy adding of mouse scroll wheel capability to Flash (AS2.0)
UPDATED VERSION CAN BE FOUND HERE :
MouseControl class
for now just takes care of Mouse scroll wheel capability in Flash
MouseControl is Singleton class which lets you define movieclips and functions that should be invoked if user uses mouse scroll wheel over defined movie clip
it helps very much in situation when you need to define scrolling functionality in different classes of your Flash site or application
- command addScroll(id, mc, function)
example:
MouseControl.getInstance().addScroll(“area1”, area1, Delegate.create(_root, moveFirst));
- removeScroll(id)
example:
MouseControl.getInstance().removeScroll(“area1”);
example SWF : http://hagane.us/as/mousescroll/mousescroll.swf
source ZIP : http://hagane.us/as/mousescroll/MouseScroll.zip
I just also want to suggest that this is not correctly written Singleton class. Singleton classes should throw arror on attemp of basic class creation like:
var mouseControl = new MouseControl() ;
but mine is doing nothing, it is expecting that you use it correctly and that when you want to use class always use internal class instance (basic of Singleton), getting it with standard
var mouseControl = MouseControl.getInstance()
or with commands
MouseControl.getInstance().addScroll(id, mc, func)
avoiding doing proper Singleton is basiclly of AS2 which is not so strong typed language …
In AS3 I recommend you do proper Singleton – nice guide you can find on Grant Skinners blog
Simple accordion example in Flash 8 (Actionscript 2)
I made this really simple example of accordion usage replying to one forum question.
Nothing special to see, but good for beginners just to get simple things going and get more interested in Flash.
Beginners can play arround with symbols star,circle and square and their icons, also you can use few new AS lines to add more childes to accordition. Create new symbols for new childes, give them proper names and don’t forget to put export for AS and export in first frame in properties of movieclip (right click on symbol in library and choose Properties option) … Also don’t forget to use help on any topic in Flash, even if you think you know it good there are lot of usefull information and you can find some methods that are really interesting.
http://www.hagane.us/as/accordion/accordion.swf
http://www.hagane.us/as/accordion/accordion.fla
Flash image gallery example (Actionscript 2) – using PHP to list images from folder
this is simple gallery example for AS2
gallery is nothing special, ease to use and implement
interesting thing about this example is that you pass a folder, and PHP side gathers image list from a folder and returns it to the Flash in XML form together with images widths and height which makes it more easier to implement this sort of galleries like I’ve made
so from this example you can see :
- PHP serving XML to Flash
- PHP getting image size (width and height)
- Flash loading XML
- Flash creating elements on stage using library
- loading external images
- and more…
this example is for beginner level
example : http://www.hagane.us/as/gallery/
ZIP : http://www.hagane.us/as/gallery/gallery.zip
if you have any questions about PHP or Flash side please post it here
EDIT: sorry for wrong links and config. Everything is corrected now and fully functional
thanks people who noted me about errors!
Flash is Bad? – untrue – EffectiveUI’s Anthony Franco shares his exerience
EffectiveUI is company based on providing Flash player based RIA developement. Anthony from EffectiveUI shares his experience with clients and wider about famous “Flash is bad” oppinion, and he does it very good.
Also, you can take a look at interesting Podtech interviews with guys from EffectiveUI
Cyberspace Nova 