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| Top |Actionscript
Create a scroll menu, let an object move whatever you want to move, get the basic script here.
In this tutorial it will be explained how to create tweens (fading, moving, width and color change) using actionscript.
Here is an application, which uses several of the tweens shown in the tween tutorial. Enjoy!
In this little tutorial you learn how to create a menu where submenues come in or disappear with fading using actionscript. In this file we create three different submenues, which are movieclips and give them names.
This is a script for a simple drag and drop action, which involves hittest. The scripts are shown for the drug icon and the growth factor. I took this tutorial from my cancer web site and it shows a biological application.
Keep childnode still while dragging parent
Usually a movieclip within a movieclip inherits the properties of the parent clip. Thus when dragged it will move with the parent. This script shows how the child will stand still when the parent is moved. All what it is is a bit of calculation meaning when the x and y values for the parent change the x and y values for the child change too but in the opposite direction.
Illusion of continous movement
This tutorial makes use of the above tutorial to keep the child movieclip silent while dragging and moving the parentclip. By creating a simple actionscript mask you can achieve the illusion that an object moves continously.
| Top |Memory Clips
Press button - keep color changed
If you ever want to mimic the effect of a visited link in a browser look at this tutorial.
As it says, this very simple tutorial shows how to give one button two functions or more if you want.
Shared Object: Creating a memopad
This tutorial shows you how to create a daily memopad using the shared object, a kind of cookie.
| Top |Text
Change the size of text and scroll text using buttons.
How do you get the scrollbar back to the top after a new text has been loaded?
This tutorial shows how to create an XML file with html tags.
Text in language other than English
English is not the only language in this world and other languages have different characters. Learn how to present other languages in Flash using the LoadVars Object.
| Top |Utilities
Opening window with javascript
This tutorial shows how to create and open a new browser window with javascript.
This tutorial shows how to change the framerate
Here is shown how to run a movieclip backwards and forward continously.
This tutorial shows without much actionscript how to create a rotating banner ad. The tutorial is suitable for those who just started using flash.
Adjusting movie to screen size
This is a set of scripts, which will either resize a movie to the screen resolution or call a movie according to a certain screen resolution.
| Top |Slideshows
This is a complete slide show tutorial, which shows you how to preload, to advance and manage slides from external files.
This is a tutorial for a simple slide show to start with. In this slide show only the next picture is preloaded while the user looks at a slide. This avoids unnecessary loading of many pics.
| Top |Preloaders
This tutorial shows how to make a preloader for jpgs or swfs for slideshows for example.
This tutorial is about a simple preloader for a simple movie. You can also download sample files, which show how to make a preloader for a movie with components or other clips exported in frame 1.
| Top |XML General
This is an xml viewer which allows to show native xml.
In this tutorial you learn some basics of xml and how to make a collapsable menu.
Basic Flash/XML Tutorial: Creating a Database
This is a basic flash xml tutorial, which shows how flash parses xml using as an example how to build a database.
| Top |XML Searchable Databases
This tutorial is about creating a local database using xml, part I.
This is part 2 of the XML-Based Searchable Database and this is about integrating URLs and Frame numbers.
Part III: list matches and more...
This part of the xml-searchable database incorporates the listbox to list more than one item found by a search. There is also a preloader introduced for movies with components.
Here is a different version of the XML search engine. There are asfunctions in the individual text files, which can load pics, texts or html files. Another new feature is that individual text fiels can further be searched for keywords.