Drawing in Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8

Drawing in Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8
Numerous drawing features in Flash 8 can help you create drawings that are more complex and detail …

Using Video and FLV Encoding in Flash MX 2004 ...

Using Video and FLV Encoding in Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8
Flash Professional 8 provides several new video features to help you create h …

Using Text in Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8

Using Text in Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8
You can apply new anti-aliasing settings that make normal and small-sized text much clearer and …

Components in Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8

Components in Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8
Flash MX 2004 introduced a brand new component architecture called the v2 (or “version 2& …

Writing Scripts and Creating Applications in F ...

Writing Scripts and Creating Applications in Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8
The scripting improvements in Flash Basic 8 and Flash Profession …

Flash Player Security in Flash MX 2004 and Fla ...

Flash Player Security in Flash MX 2004 and Flash 8
Flash Player 8 has made enhancements to the security model, in which Flash applicati …

Flash 8 Basics: About Flash Files

About Flash Files
The primary Flash file type, FLA files, contain three basic types of information that comprise a Flash document. Thes …

Flash 8 Basics: The Flash Workspace

The Flash Workspace
The following sections provide a detailed introduction to the tools, panels, and other elements of the Flash worksp …

Flash 8 Basics: The Main Toolbar and Edit Bar

The Main Toolbar and Edit Bar
The menu bar at the top of the Flash application window displays menus with commands for controlling Flas …

Flash 8 Basics: Setting Preferences in Flash

Setting Preferences in Flash
Flash lets you set preferences for general application operations, editing operations, and Clipboard opera …

BitmapData.loadBitmap gone in Actionscript 3

BitmapData.loadBitmap gone in Actionscript 3
When playing with the BitmapData API in Flash 8, it was often necessary to work with an im …

Actionscript 3 – New Capabilities

Actionscript 3 – New Capabilities
I dont blame you, after all there is a tonne of new stuff to play with, learn and read about. M …

Creating an analog clock with ActionScript usi ...

Creating an analog clock with ActionScript using no design tools whatsoever!
I am most pleased to be able to show you how to create an …

Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview

Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview
Adobe Flash Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview provides registered users of Flash Pr …

Animated gradient bar button with transparency ...

Making great-looking multicolored bar buttons with transparency, shadow and gradient effects in Flash 8
Before starting, please note th …

Make a professional-looking awesome button

26. With the text field still selected, hit F8 to convert it to a symbol. Make sure to select Movie clip as type and not button. Call i …

Using Bitwise Operators

Using Bitwise Operators
Before you begin reading this section, you might want to download the source files linked to on the first page …

Using Bitwise Operators: Extracting Color Chan ...

Extracting Color Channels
When I first started messing around with manipulating colors in Flash 5, I couldn’t figure out a simple …

Using Bitwise Operators: Manipulating Color Ch ...

Manipulating Color Channels
Color channel values are simply integers that range from 0 (0×00) to 255 (0xFF). As such, you can use …

Flash 8 Documentation: getColorBoundsRect (Bit ...

getColorBoundsRect (BitmapData.getColorBoundsRect method)

public getColorBoundsRect(mask:Number, color:Number, [findColor:Boolean]) : …