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Global Variables

Global variables are useful when you want a variable to be accessible from anywhere in your movie, even in different scenes.

Views: 494 | | by Troy
Flash - Actionscripting

Var Declaration

This is not a very important issue for small movies, but it is a good thing to think about it.

Views: 519 | | by Jarry
Flash - Actionscripting

Variable Scope

One of the first problems programmers encountered when switching from Flash 5 to Flash MX was the variables scope.

Views: 531 | | by Isac
Flash - Actionscripting

Relative Addressing

We have talked already about scope issues and addressing. They're tricky. Well there's very particular issue I want to talk to you about:...

Views: 488 | | by Marry
Flash - Actionscripting

_root, _parent, and this

_root is an alias, just as _parent and this.

Views: 490 | | by Donald
Flash - Actionscripting

Incrementation or Decrementation

First: what does increment mean? When I say that I increment a value by 1, it only means that I add 1 to this value. There are several ways I can...

Views: 512 | | by Jarry
Flash - Actionscripting

Getting an Index Position from an Array

There are several times when I found it helpful to get the position of an item contained in an array.

Views: 500 | | by Amy
Flash - Actionscripting

Array Duplication Made Easy

To make a duplicate of an array proves more difficult than it seems.

Views: 524 | | by John
Flash - Actionscripting

Tertiary Operator

This operator is also used to shorten if tests. It is used in the case that: if something is true, then 1 (or 0) thing happens, otherwise 1 (or 0)...

Views: 493 | | by Daniel
Flash - Actionscripting

Easy Random Color

An easy method to randomizing colors.

Views: 441 | | by Daniel
Flash - Actionscripting

Color Object

What the color object does is allows you ways to apply color and alpha effects to movieclip objects much in the sense of a filter.

Views: 395 | | by Mark
Flash - Actionscripting

The Drawing API

Using the drawing API is not the easiest thing in the world, but once you get the hang of it, you can produce very easily lots of cool all-code...

Views: 429 | | by Daniel
Flash - Actionscripting

Dynamic Event Handlers

Now dynamic event handlers are really one of the best things that Flash MX brought, as they allow us to change a handler at run time. You may...

Views: 519 | | by Sarah
Flash - Actionscripting

For...in Loops

for...in loops are tricky to use. What they do is simple though: they reference everything they find in an object and put it in an array.

Views: 365 | | by Donald
Flash - Actionscripting

Random Numbers

In programming, it is nice to be able to create numbers that occur unexpectedly

Views: 417 | | by Isac
Flash - Actionscripting

Solve Cache Problems when you Load a Movie

When you load a movie, variables, or a text, what you load is put in the cache of your computer by your browser. This can cause problems because if...

Views: 458 | | by Amy
Flash - Actionscripting

Building Protoypes

Basically, a prototype is a function, but the difference is that you can apply it to an object. This is where the fact that Flash Actionscript is...

Views: 425 | | by Isac
Flash - Actionscripting

The basics of an RPG

The basics of an RPG (role-playing game) in Flash.

Views: 605 | | by Ben
Flash - Games

Advanced Preloader

Here we will make an advanced preloader which determines not only the actual percent, but the Bytes Loaded, Bytes Remaining, and other neat stuff.

Views: 480 | | by Jason
Flash - Actionscripting

Creating a tank track

Tutorial that shows you how to create a tank track that follows a path and how to animate it.

Views: 1045 | | by Mark
3DS MAX - Animation