| SWFObject and Best Practice Implementation |   |
With more and more full screen Flash web sites appearing on the internet, it’s important to understand how to properly embed the Flash movie in the browser window.
In this tutorial we will cover best practice embedding of SWF movies using SWFObject with a custom function for adding browser scrollbars for smaller browser windows.
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| Giveaway – O’Reilly Books!!! | |
We want to thank you for the great support you have been giving to The Tech Labs. We are now publishing articles on regular basis, and we are trying to implement new features to enable this community to grow.
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| Flash Builder 4 – Deep Look Into Improvements! | |
Adobe released early June 2009 the Flash Builder 4 and we took the chance to look deep into this awesome program.
The news are many…. starting in IDE improvements to native Action Script handling, many other things were added. In this article we will show you some examples distributed in topics about some of these new features.
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| Create a 3D Bowling Game with JiglibFlash and Papervision 3D | |
Possibly the hottest thing to hit the Flash community since the advent of several excellent 3D engines is the recent debut of 3D physics engines. Here we’ll examine a way of using one of the more popular 3D engines, JiglibFlash, in conjunction with the prominent 3D engine Papervision3D to create a bowling game.
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| Create a Dynamic Event Calendar in Flex Builder 3 with Actionscript 3.0 | |
This tutorial will allow readers to create an Event Calendar application using Flex. The final user will be able to plan over a daily, weekly or monthly plan.
You will learn on this step by step Flex tutorial, to create from scratch those Graphic User Interfaces, integrate them, and create a complete Rich Internet Application with a professional look.
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| Web Roundup: 21 Creative Flash Portfolios | |
Flash portfolios are a great way to showcase what you’ve done and how you did it. Besides, as Internet have no boundaries, the geographical barriers are avoided, being your work accessible world wide.
Your Flash Portfolio should be one of your best works. Every single detail can count on whether a customer will contact you or not.
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| Build a Dynamic Accordion Menu in Flash CS4 with ActionScript 3.0 and XML | |
In this tutorial you will learn how to build an accordion style menu from scratch that can be configured by using an external file.
The menu items can bet totally configured in XML with label and can load text, image or swf on it’s open “state”. Just follow the tutorial, it’s quite simple. At the end you will see a secon example achieved by this procedure.
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| Build a contact manager in Flex 3 with ZendAMF; Part Two – Coding the CRUD & Final Release | |
The complete result of this 2 part tutorial is a contact manager built in flex that uses ZendAMF to store data in mysql. In the this second part we will code all the application and backend functions using Flex 3 + ZendAMF + Php 5 + MySql. This part will use a general crud system (Create, Read, Update and Delete) that is similar to the most applications needs. You will be able to write you own application from scratch.
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| Giveaway: 5 licenses of Rainbow Live – XML Editor + CMS | |
James McNess of Code and Visual has generously offered up 5 licenses worth $99 each for the Rainbow Live XML Editor + CMS!
In James’ own words “Rainbow Live provides most of the key functions of a lightweight CMS, without the overhead of complex server side scripts and SQL databases. Rainbow Live was specifically built for Flash based websites and components which typically use external XML data to provide their content”.
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| Freebie: lynda.com offers Free Access to Adobe Flash Catalyst Training | |
The well known online training company lynda.com launched a complete set of free video tutorials on Flash Catalyst. As mentioned by Steve Johnson, in this “Flash Catalyst Beta Preview, Mordy Golding demonstrates a workflow that emphasizes the intuitive nature of the tool, and shows how to achieve results in a short time. Meant to bridge the gap between designers and developers, Flash Catalyst allows the designer to work with familiar applications, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, while automatically generating the necessary code in the background for the developer.”
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| Create Random Torn Photos with Actionscript 3.0 | |
One of the most powerful sets of classes in ActionScript 3 revolve around BitmapData and pixel manipulation. In this tutorial we are going to look at dynamically creating a photo with torn edges by compositing several images together.
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| Exploring runtime styling with the Native Window Explorer in Adobe AIR | |
In this Adobe AIR tutorial you will use runtime styling to create a dynamic native window in AIR. We will show you how to load and unload styles, performance concerns and best practice while also showing you the value of knowing your environment.
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| Create real water effects with Flash CS4 & ActionScript 3.0 | |
In this Flash CS4 tutorial you will learn a advanced technique called perlinNoise to create a realistic water effect into any image. We will show you how to apply it in two different situations, one in a river, creating the …
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