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msantos - who has written 8 posts on Flash Platform and ActionScript Tutorials.
Mário Santos, Portuguese and actually working in Luxembourg on Internet/Intranet Development (some time as free-lancer), is an Adobe Flex 3 with AIR Certified Expert. Works with Flex daily for the past 2 years and with php for almost 8. As a Flex 3 addicted, he have already published for free on his blog 2 e-books about Flex and Action Script 3 written on his native language (PT_pt). Last 8 months started to work also with advertising and design for print.
Create an intelligent XML image Gallery & Slideshow in Flash CS4 (+PHP) – Part I/II
In this article you will learn how to build an image gallery that will load images from a web server. I decide to call it "Intelligent" because you don't need to configure any XML or flash file. Just put the Flash movie and the images on a server and they will be loaded automatically. Nice ah?
Continue reading...Build a Creative “Swirl Animated Menu” with Flash CS4
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Flash it's a powerful application and can be really complex, but even beginners can create a cool menu for demonstration or for use in a personal site. The menu that we will create is simple, but the swirl animation is something that you don't see everywhere, for that I've decided to explain one way to make an animation of growing swirls without any Action Script code.You will also learn how to import artwork from illustrator where I've pre-made the graphics, the work is very simple and the result will be very cool.
Continue reading...Flash Builder 4 – Deep Look Into Improvements!
Friday, June 26, 2009
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.
Continue reading...Build a Dynamic Accordion Menu in Flash CS4 with ActionScript 3.0 and XML
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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.
Continue reading...Build a contact manager in Flex 3 with ZendAMF; Part Two – Coding the CRUD & Final Release
Monday, June 15, 2009
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.
Continue reading...Create real water effects with Flash CS4 & ActionScript 3.0
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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 water effect in whole image, and the other one in a waterfall using a more [...]
Continue reading...Build a contact manager in Flex with ZendAMF; Part One – Layout; From Photoshop to Flex
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
The complete result of this 2 part tutorial is a contact manager built in flex that uses ZendAMF to store data in mysql. In this first part we will learn how to build our own layout in photoshop and implement it on Adobe Flex. We will use a simple layout and you will learn some few tips to keep in mind when designing a layout in photoshop and using it in Adobe Flex.
Continue reading...Integrate Flex Builder 3.0 & Php easly with the fresh ZendAMF
Monday, May 11, 2009
In this article I will explain how to build a simple adobe flex application that communicates with php using remote objects calls to the new AMF php implementation suported by adobe and called ZendAMF.
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