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How to build a AS3 Videoplayer

Today we explain you how to create a videoplayer with some basic features like this one. These are: - Play/Pause - Stop - Preloading - Scrubbing - Volume handling There will be another tutorial, which will extend this player. So be sure to check it out. Requirements Adobe Flash CS3 Try / Buy Source Files Download Constants As always, we begin with setting [...]

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Create a AS3 Slideshow with XML

This tutorial shows you how to create a simple slideshow using as3/flash and xml

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How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML - Part 2

In this second, and final, part we'll be learning how to save and edit the file and how to setup the bindings between the xml and our component.

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Creating a Weather Widget with XML and AS3

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 offers us a free service to do that.

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The Tech Labs at Adobe Feeds

The Tech Labs are now available through the Adobe Feeds aggregator. If it is the first time you are reading about The Tech Labs, then let us make a small introduction to you. The Tech Labs is a blog/tutorial site for web designers and developers. We run tutorials on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites or desktop applications. We cover Air, Flash and Flex.

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Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

In this tutorial I will show you how to build a simple 3D photo album in AS3. We will build an application similar to this one. I will use two AS3 libraries: FIVe3D and TweenLite, both open source. Five3D is a lightweight 3D library written by Mathieu Badimon. TweenLite is one of the many libraries available for script based animation in AS3. It was created by Jack Doyle from Greensock. It's principal characteristic is that it's small (hence it's name) and simple to use. FIVe3D and TweenLite work very well together!

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Create a AS3 MP3 Player with papervision3d spectrum display

As we've already promised you, here's the tutorial about how to create a 3d spectrum display from a sound file with papervision3d and flash. On this tutorial, we'll focus on the 3d part. If you're not comfortable with the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum method then you should read the previous tutorial.

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