I recently posted a couple of ActionScript button tutorials that made use of the Tweener class instead of the traditional Tween class, so I thought…
Tutorial – ActionScript 3 Buttons
In a previous tutorial, I demonstrated how to create a Movie Clip button in Flash. Movie Clips are much more flexible than Button Symbols, so it…
Flash CS3 Tutorial – Movie Clip Buttons
(Also see our tutorial on coding animated Movie Clip Buttons in ActionScript 3 that don’t rely on timeline animations.) Many Flash beginners stick with using button symbols…
Flash CS3 Tutorial – ActionScript 3 Preloader
There is very little that will push users away quicker than a bulky Flash website with no preloader. Without a preloader, your users will have…
ActionScript 3 Tutorial – What Happened to getURL?
For those of you who are new to ActionScript 3, you might be wondering what happened to the getURL() function. It used to be so…
Tutorial – Using Sound in ActionScript 3
Lately it seems that everyone has become somewhat of a music snob. Everyone is convinced that his or her taste in music is perfectly objective…
Flash CS3 Particle Effect Tutorial
7. Randomize the size and opacity. Randomizing the size and opacity of our particles involves just a couple simple lines of code that we’re going to…