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.

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 [...]