Fade-in or other effects for Flash buttons?

July 31, 2008 | Filed under: Action Scripts, Tips and Tricks

I’ve managed to create button areas on a Flash swf file (in Flash 8)with images behind them (so when the mouse pointer goes over a defined area, an image pops up)- only thing is now I need to find a way of making the images “fade in” (or have another good transitional / “soft” effect) when the mouse pointer rolls over the button area. Anyone know how this can be done?

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_root -against- _parent?

July 28, 2008 | Filed under: Action Scripts, Tips and Tricks

Tips on flash levels { _root } against { _parent }. How to go through it.

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Creating a Weather Widget with XML and AS3

July 19, 2008 | Filed under: Action Scripts

In this tutorial I’m presenting you a little weather widget, that could come handy for travel websites, or our personal page. If you make some changes on the code, you could show a different interface on your website, according to the weather on your city. Pretty cool stuff. We gonna connect weather.com XML data file with our flash widget. Weather.com …

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Creating a Weather Widget with XML and AS3

July 14, 2008 | Filed under: Action Scripts, URL

In this tutorial I’m presenting you a little weather widget, that could come handy for travel websites, or our personal page. If you make some changes on the code, you could show a different interface on your website, according to the weather on your city. Pretty cool stuff. We gonna connect weather.com XML data file with our flash widget. Weather.com …

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Embedded MP3 Audio Player

July 11, 2008 | Filed under: Audio, Tips and Tricks

This tutorial uses the Audio Player Wordpress plugin from 1pixelout.

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Using Flash to Load a Random Image

July 8, 2008 | Filed under: Action Scripts, Tips and Tricks

This tutorial will show you how to load a random image onto your web page. Every time a user browsers your page a new picture will display. This can be used to make your site look fresh and dynamic or to deliver different messages or ads campaigns.

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extended Flash XML tutorial

July 2, 2008 | Filed under: Action Scripts, Tips and Tricks

Let’s extend this tutorial a little bit. What I needed was just a small variation on Lee’s gallery. Previous and next buttons change images from 0 index to array length index. When end is reached button don’t do anything. I wanted to change this so when I reach last image in the array click on next button will bring me …

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