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Developing a Flash Music Player, Part 1

Developing a Flash Music Player, Part 1

Music or podcast players are popping up on some important ecommerce sites. These audio players might offer samples of music fro... 0 Comments | Read More »

Custom Flash Preloader, Part 2

Custom Flash Preloader, Part 2

In Flash, a preloader can give a user good information about the progress of a download. Last week, in Part 1 of this series, ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Building a Custom Flash Preloader, Part 1

Building a Custom Flash Preloader, Part 1

For the next couple of weeks I'll be explaining how to build a custom preloader that will display the progress of an image as i... 0 Comments | Read More »

Create a Custom Toggle Button with Adobe Flash

Create a Custom Toggle Button with Adobe Flash

A typical toggle button has two states: on and off. It's useful when you want a user to choose one of two options. The most c... 0 Comments | Read More »

Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 4

Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 4

If you have been following this series of tutorials, "Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch," your slider should be... 0 Comments | Read More »

Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 3

Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 3

This tutorial is third part in an ongoing series created to demonstrate how to develop a powerful, Flash content slider. If yo... 0 Comments | Read More »

Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 2

Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 2

Content sliders help many developers solve overcrowding on a home page. This is the second article in a four-part series abou... 0 Comments | Read More »

Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 1

Build A Flash-Powered Content Slider from Scratch, Part 1

Content sliders are an extremely popular feature in modern website design, particularly for online retailers. These sliders are... 1 Comment | Read More »

Custom Cursor Effects in Flash

Custom Cursor Effects in Flash

I'd never suggest changing the cursor just because you can, but with Flash you can. Changing the user's cursor will, in a man... 0 Comments | Read More »

Using JavaScript and ActionScript Together

Using JavaScript and ActionScript Together

I recently worked on a site where I needed to display HTML forms in Flash. The solution I came up with was Shadowbox, a web-ba... 0 Comments | Read More »

Sources for Learning Flash and ActionScript

Sources for Learning Flash and ActionScript

Adobe's most recent promotional campaigns have focused on the "freedom of choice" that its solutions provide for developers, a... 1 Comment | Read More »

Creating A Dock Menu Effect: Part 2

Creating A Dock Menu Effect: Part 2

Apple's Mac OSX dock is one of the most attractive computer user interfaces of the past several years. In "Part 1" of this tw... 0 Comments | Read More »

Creating A Dock Menu Effect: Part 1

Creating A Dock Menu Effect: Part 1

I've seen a lot of Mac OSX style docks out there. Some of them are very well made, and some not. Perhaps the popularity of the ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Embedding SWF with jQuery Flash

Embedding SWF with jQuery Flash

The Flash plug-in for jQuery is a very lightweight option for embedding Flash movies. I typically use swfObject, but I decided ... 0 Comments | Read More »

Embedding Assets in Flash

Embedding Assets in Flash

A common way to make assets, such as graphic, audio and video files, available at run time is to import the assets into your Fl... 0 Comments | Read More »

Embedding Fonts in Flash

Embedding Fonts in Flash

Embedding fonts in Flash can be tricky and can really bloat the size of your SWF file if you're not careful. Large SWF files ... 1 Comment | Read More »

Google Maps API for Flash

Google Maps API for Flash

Google Maps is one of the best things to hit the web since video tutorials. If you're developing for a multi-channel merchant t... 1 Comment | Read More »

Augmented Reality Using FLARManager and Papervision, Part 2

Augmented Reality Using FLARManager and Papervision, Part 2

In part two of our augmented reality (AR) video tutorial, I'll create a custom AR scene. Using the custom pattern I created in... 0 Comments | Read More »

New Flash Content Switcher Spices Up Site Design

New Flash Content Switcher Spices Up Site Design

CU3ER is a Flash-based, three dimensional content switcher that provides smooth, spin, flip, slice, and shade-image transitions... 0 Comments | Read More »

Augmented Reality Using FLARManager and Papervision

Augmented Reality Using FLARManager and Papervision

Augmented reality mixes real-world and computer-generated imagery. In ecommerce solutions, it is often used to simulate the e... 0 Comments | Read More »

 

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