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Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D – Part 3

Step by step guide for creating a PicLens type 3D photo viewer with Flex and Away3d. This is step 3, of a 3 part tutorial that will sweep many useful techniques used in web application design, Flex, and Flash 3D design.

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Simulating PicLens with Flex and Away3D – Part 1

This tutorial article is a Step by step guide for creating a PicLens type 3D photo viewer with Flex and Away3d. This is step 1, of a 3 part tutorial that will sweep many useful techniques used in web application design, Flex, and Flash 3D design.

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Extending the AS3/Flash9 Slideshow with XML

In this second part tutorial we're going to add some more features to the slideshow application. Those would be forwarding and rewinding slides, play and pause the slideshow and linkable slides. If you haven't read the first part tutorial yet, you should do it before continue. You can read it here.

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Expanding the AS3 Videoplayer

Alright, here's the second part of the video player tutorial. We will be adding the following new features: - Playlist support - Fullscreen support - Save volume - Clickable progress/volume bar

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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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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 Flickr Viewer using Flex

In this tutorial, you will learn how to integrate photos from Flickr in your Flex application, using as3flickrlib.

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Creating A Downloader For YouTube with Flex/Air

YouTube’s mixed easy movie access with community uploads to create a startling new service. The online problem is that you can only access YouTube when you are online. How can you access those movies when you are offline? Let’s solve that problem by building a downloader with Flex and AIR. In this article we will build a cross platform application that searches for YouTube videos and then provides a mechanism to download those videos and view them locally. You will be able to take your favorite YouTube videos with you wherever you go.

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