Tuts

Flash ActionScript 3.0 Tutorials

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AS3: Contact Form Learn how to create an email contact form for your website. Added on August 9, 2010 AS3: Changing Colors

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3date/

Using the Date Class in AS3

By Riyadh Al Balushi | Flash CS4 | ActionScript 3.0 | Beginner This tutorial will teach you how to use the Data Class in AS3 to retrieve all information related to time (includes dates and days). This tutorial will teach you the basics on how to use and manipulate the date class to retrieve this type of information. This is a beginner level tutorial that doesn't require any advanced knowledge of ActionScript. This tutorial is divided into the following sections: Basic usage of the date class.

AS3 Tween Class

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3xml/

XML Basics

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3preloader/

Creating a Flash Preloader

AS3 - Custom Context Menu

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3contextmenu/

<a href="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=brd&FlightID=5268367&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=1704" target="_blank"><img src="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=bsr&FlightID=5268367&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=1704" border=0 width=300 height=250></a> By Blue_Chi | Flash CS3 | ActionScript 3.0 | Beginner The default commands in the Flash context menu (the right-click menu on Windows or the control-click menu on a Mac) let the user change zoom and playback settings in a way that could alter the flow of a Flash movie in a manner not desired by the original developer. This tutorial will teach you how to customize the context menu by removing the default items and adding your own items instead.

Loader Class

<a href="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=brd&FlightID=5268367&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=1704" target="_blank"><img src="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=bsr&FlightID=5268367&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=1704" border=0 width=300 height=250></a> By Blue_Chi | Flash CS3 | ActionScript 3.0 | Beginner The Loader Class is an ActionScript class that lets us load external assets (such as images and Flash files) at run time onto a Flash movie. Using such technique makes our Flash movie more efficient as you load specific files only when needed instead of embedding them regardless of whether the user ends up watching them or not.

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3loader/

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3timer/

<a href="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=brd&FlightID=5268367&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=1704" target="_blank"><img src="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=bsr&FlightID=5268367&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=1704" border=0 width=300 height=250></a> By Blue_Chi | Flash CS3 + ActionScript 3.0 | Beginner The Timer Class in AS3 lets you execute any code repeatedly over specific time intervals.

Timer Class in AS3

Text Fields and Formats

http://www.republicofcode.com/tutorials/flash/as3text/

Functions

<a href="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=brd&FlightID=5268367&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=1704" target="_blank"><img src="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=bsr&FlightID=5268367&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=1704" border=0 width=300 height=250></a> By Blue_Chi | Flash CS3 | ActionScript 3.0 | Beginner Functions are fundamental tools used in ActionScript to reduce the amount of written code, save time, and add a logical structure to your code.

AS3 Masking

By Riyadh Al Balushi (Blue_Chi) | Flash CS4 | ActionScript 3.0 | Beginner A mask is an object that limits the visibility of an object to the shape of the mask applied to it. This tutorial will teach you the basics on how to apply masks dynamically using ActionScript 3 along with a number of tricks related to masking. This is a beginner tutorial that does not require any advanced skills.

<a href="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=brd&FlightID=5268367&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=1704" target="_blank"><img src="http://bs.serving-sys.com/BurstingPipe/adServer.bs?cn=bsr&FlightID=5268367&Page=&PluID=0&Pos=1704" border=0 width=300 height=250></a> By Blue_Chi | Flash CS3 | ActionScript 3.0 | Beginner This tutorial will teach you how to use the AS3 SharedObject Class to store small amounts of data on the end user's machine. This stored data could be used to store a game's highscore, a user's login data, or any other information that you need to be remembered when the user visits your Flash movie again.

SharedObject Class (Flash Cookies)

Filters

By Blue_Chi | Flash CS4 | ActionScript 3.0 | Beginner This tutorial will teach you how to use ActionScript 3.0 to link from your Flash project to another webpage using the navigateToURL() method. Using the navigateToURL() Method

Linking to Another Webpage

By Blue_Chi | Flash CS5 | ActionScript 3.0 | Intermediate Using real interactive maps is one of the best ways to to illustrate location. This might be a cumbersome task if you had to create the whole map from scratch, luckily a number of companies such as Google and Yahoo have opened up the API to their maps and allow 3rd party developers to take advantage of these maps in their own projects.