Macromedia Flash Tutorials

Behavior 5: Toggle AutoSize

Behavior 5: Toggle AutoSize
The Toggle AutoSize behavior allows you to add code to a button so that it toggles the component’s au …

Behavior 6: Toggle Play/Pause

Behavior 6: Toggle Play/Pause
The Toggle Play/Pause behavior allows you to add code to a button so that it toggles between play and pau …

Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Progressive Fl ...

Creating a Dynamic Playlist for Progressive Flash Video
There’s been a strong outcry for an article demonstrating an XML-driven p …

Exploring the Video Player Interface

Exploring the Video Player Interface
This section explains the structure of the finished player and walks you through creating the inte …

Setting Up Flash Media Server

Setting Up Flash Media Server
This article assumes that you are running Flash Media Server locally, but the application setup would be …

Writing the Client-Side ActionScript

Writing the Client-Side ActionScript
This section explains how to parse the XML document and create the dynamic playlist.
As I mentione …

Generating Dynamic Thumbnails

Generating Dynamic Thumbnails
The playlist so far is pretty snappy, but let’s not stop there. Jazz it up even more with thumbnail …

Testing the Application

Testing the Application
In the beginning of this tutorial, you copied your FLV files to your Flash Media Server installation. You will …

Why Progressive Video?

Why Progressive Video?
Comparing the pros and cons of embedded, streaming, and progressive video is beyond the scope of this article. H …

Understanding Your Thumbnail Options

Understanding Your Thumbnail Options
The greatest hurdle in adapting this application for progressive streaming is creating the thumbna …

Using Mini FLV Files

Using Mini FLV Files
The down-and-dirty approach to grabbing thumbnails without any extra files is to attach the FLV file to a scaled-d …

Creating JPEG Thumbnails

Creating JPEG Thumbnails
A more bandwidth-conscious way of displaying thumbnails is to create scaled-down JPEG files for each video fil …

Changing the NetStream Code

Changing the NetStream Code
You have to makeonly one simple change to the VideoSourcePro.as ActionScript to convert it from streaming t …

Setting Up Your Environment

Setting Up Your Environment
To follow this code walkthrough, you will need on_demand_player.zip, the sample file download that accompan …

Nice Free Desktop Computer Wallpaper Theme

Retro Paper! Create a retro style wallpaper effect!This tutorial will show you a simple method to create an effecive wallpaper th …

Creating Shape Tweens

Creating Shape Tweens
By tweening shapes, you can create an effect similar to morphing, making one shape appear to change into another …

Using Shape Hints with Shape Tweens

Using Shape Hints with Shape Tweens
To control more complex or improbable shape changes, you can use shape hints. Shape hints identify …

Creating Frame-by-Frame Animations

Creating Frame-by-Frame Animations
A frame-by-frame animation changes the contents of the Stage in every frame and is best suited to a …

Editing Your Animations

Editing Your Animations
In Flash 8 you can use various tools to edit your animations, such as commands to insert frames, modify keyfram …

Using Timeline Effects

Using Timeline Effects
Flash includes prebuilt Timeline effects that enable you to create complex animations with a minimal number of s …

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