Flash > ActionScript

Second part of my Flash actionscript 3.0 tutorial on how to draw via the graphic api. So here you will see how to draw straight lines defined by 2 points.

This tutorial shows how to use the new XML features in AS3 by creating a simple RSS reader.

apply dropshadow dynamically through your code with flash actionscripting.

learn the basics of how to draw stuff using Flash actionscript 3 graphic api

Learn how to catch mouse events like mouse move and clicks with flash actionscript 3

How to load one flash file content into another dynamically with actionscript.

Of the more popular kinds of recreational, or even professional "applications" you see out there today, either desktop based or web based, you will find image viewers or image galleries at the top of the list. These can be XML-based, or reading from a directory of images on a local or remote drive. Some even show or manage files that have been dragged and dropped into the viewer itself.

Web developers love AIR because it leverages web technologies, like HTML/JavaScript and Flash, to develop desktop applications. This lets web developers develop applications for the desktop using the same tools and same practices used when developing content for the web.

Gradient masks are an every-day designer trick to gradually fade the opacity of an object. Just about every bitmap software application (notably Photoshop) has offered them for years, but Flash has never supported them. Designers have traditionally worked around Flash's limitation by importing semi-transparent PNGs or by fudging the effect with layered semi-transparent shapes, but true semi-transparent masks in Flash have never been a possibility. That is until now with Flash 8.

How to build your own simple functions using Flash actionscript 3.0

I rewrote the 3D sphere v1 post in AS3. Coding in ActionScript 3 is not much different as far as the mathematics and functions goe. Though you will notice all the extra sythax and coding necessary to acheive the same effect. It's all worthit though; AS3 compiles using AVM2 (ActionScript Virtual Machine 2) and the code runs much much much faster. You can run both side by side and notice how fast teh AS3 is even when it has double the amount of clips to render.

learn to use actionscript 3 to make a simple hit test in flash

how to use actionscript to make a nice button click effect.

In this flash tutorial you will learn how to make a very useful alpha tween effect controlled by flash actionscripting

If you want to be a programmer or just write some simple lines of code, you will need to know some math and how to use it. Here you will see how to work with mathematics in Flash actionscript.