About the Tween Class The Tween class enables you to move, resize, and fade movie clips easily on the Stage. The following code is from …
About Continuing Animations What if you want to move the ball after the initial animation completes? There are at least two ways you ca …
Creating Animations That Continue Endlessly You can even make an animation continue animating back and forth along the X-axis without s …
About Applying Easing Methods to Version 2 Components Another use for the various easing methods is to apply them on version 2 componen …
Combining the Transition and Tween Classes You can generate some interesting effects when you combine the Transition and Tween classes. …
Getting back into Flash Now you are ready to bring your 3D star animation back into Flash. You will want to import it as an image seque …
Achieving Amazing Easing Effects in Flash In previous versions of Flash, motion tweening was a difficult and time-consuming way to give …
Skinning the Flash MX 2004 Components The Macromedia Flash MX 2004 components have come a long way in functionality from previous versi …
Benefits of the New Skinning Architecture The Flash MX 2004 components are based on the Version 2.0 component framework, the latest fra …
Building an image-viewing widget with ActionScript 3.0Along with the launch of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 back in 2003 came ActionScript …
Installing the sample files I’ve created all the sample code for my upcoming book, tentatively titled Essential ActionScript 3.0, …
Moving from ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScript 3.0 Upgrading ActionScript 2.0 code to ActionScript 3.0 entails some mandatory changes to …
Debugging ActionScript 2.0 Code: Lifting the BlindfoldProgramming can be a bit like navigating blindfolded in a petting zoo. Sure, you …
Meet the Output panel Your first stop is the Output panel, which displays text that is output either by Flash or by you. To view the Ou …
Meet the Debugger panel Ready to step up? The Debugger panel provides a much more comprehensive, interactive view than trace() of the i …
Debugging SWF files in a browser Debugging a SWF file from the comfort of Flash is one thing; debugging from the confines of a browser …