AS3 Quick Tips: Publishing HTML with the Root Path as the SWF Directory

This was something that had been bugging me for a few days.
I Had a SWF that had to load a config.txt file when it loaded, this used a relative link (eg “config.txt”). That all works fine testing in the Flash IDE, but as soon as i embeded it into a HTML doc my relative links [...]

AS3 Math Basics: Add Velocity Physics to a Movie Clip

Hello, So i finally dragged myself away from playing the Left 4 Dead demo and RA3, to bring you yet another AS3 tutorial.

AS3 Basics: Sending Variables from AS3 to PHP

Hello and welcome to another quick AS3 tutorial. As with any client-side application, eventually you’ll want to comunicate with a server, for instance to display scores and such. This is something that Flash has been able to do quite a few versions back, but some of you may not know what the AS3 equivalent is. So Here we go.

AS3 Quick Tips: How to check if a number is odd or even

At some point in a developers life you find the need to check if a number is odd or even. Whether it be to make a staggered output (alternating row colours) or a more complicated calculation. For this purpose there is a special operator called “Modulo” (admit it, it sounds cool).

AS3 Quick Tips: String to Number Conversion (and vice versa)

Hello and welcome to the start of a new line of AS3 articles, focusing on being very short and to the point.

AS3 Basics: Using the Microphone in Actionscript 3.0

While learning Actionscript I’ve found many interesting ways to add user interaction to a flash app. However, in my AS2 days, I missed using the microphone completely, so this is a chance for me to teach you as well as myself. Using the microphone you can add new ways for users to interact with you’re application.

Flash and SEO Not a Lost Cause?

When the worlds of SEO and flash collide, web designers cringe at the thought of developing the two together. The reason? Search engines cannot understand what is essentially an image. If a site welcomed you saying ”click here to view the gallery”, Google & other search engines wouldn’t flinch. They’re dumb robots, after all.
To draw up a solution, let’s start by breaking [...]

AS3 Basics: Detect flash window focus with Actionscript 3.0

Hello again,

I’ve been playing about and discovered a neat simple code snippet to detect if the flash file has focus. By focus i mean if the user has clicked on the embedded flash on a web page.

AS3 Basics: Rotate a movieclip with actionscript 3.0

Just a quick tutorial to go along side my AS2 version of rotation.

AS3 Basics: String Manipulation in Actionscript 3.0

I’ve been developing apps in Flash Actionscript 2.0 (AS2) for about a 1/2 years now. But the other day i finally bit the bullet and decided to start learning Actionscript 3.0 (AS3). AS3 is the next big step in flash application development boasting a complete re-write with faster excecution speed, fully re-vamped event hadling system [...]