Category Archives: Flash

Adobe Video – Copying animation as ActionScript 3.0

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Another of the novelties of Flash CS3 is the capability of copying one animation to another object. That can also be done in ActionScript, as this video exemplifies: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0126 By the way, Flash uses E4X to handle animation data in … Continue reading →

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Using ActionScript 3.0 Components

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Nuno Correia

This Adobe PDF is very useful for programming ActionScript 3.0 components: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/flash_as3_components_help.pdf This is a very practical introductory HTML tutorial: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/getting_started_ui_components/ Note the links in the end of the article: Using the Button component Using the Label component Getting started … Continue reading →

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Adobe PDF – Programming ActionScript 3.0

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Nuno Correia

This Adobe PDF is extremely useful for programming in ActionScript 3.0: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/flash_as3_programming.pdf

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gotoAndLearn – Flash Video Tutorials

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Nuno Correia

I found this interesting site with Flash video tutorials: http://www.gotoandlearn.com/

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Exporting library symbols in ActionScript 3.0

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Nuno Correia

One of the important changes from ActionScript 2.0 to 3.0 is exporting library symbols. Now, when you export a library symbol, you are creating a new class. This Adobe tutorial provides an interesting insight on this topic: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000215.html

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Rich Internet Applications Topic Center

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Nuno Correia

This is Adobe’s Rich Internet Applications page. Very much centered around Flex: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/ria/

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E4X – ECMAScript for XML

Posted on September 2, 2007 by Nuno Correia

ActionScript 3.0 includes support for E4X – ECMAScript for XML. A reminder: ActionScript is part of the ECMAScript family standard. “ECMAScript for XML (E4X) offers new ways to retrieve data from XML in Adobe Flash applications. (…) you can use … Continue reading →

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Essential ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock

Posted on May 20, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Colin Moock has been writing excelent ActionScript books for O’Reilly, and Essential ActionScript 3.0, coming out in June, should also be worth buying: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596526948/ Colin Moock links: http://moock.org/ http://www.moock.org/blog/

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Flash Video Encoder

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Nuno Correia

One powerful tool for working with video in Flash is the Flash Video Encoder. Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder is a stand-alone video encoding application that lets you encode video in Adobe Flash video (FLV) format. (…) You can batch-process … Continue reading →

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Flash books

Posted on May 13, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Recommended books for Flash and ActionScript: Macromedia Flash 8 ActionScript: Training from the Source by Derek Franklin, Jobe Maker, Erik Bianchi Macromedia Publishing (let’s hope the Adobe CS3 version comes out soon) Flash CS3 Professional Advanced: Visual Quickpro Guide by … Continue reading →

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