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Build a Creative “Swirl Animated Menu” with Flash CS4
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...SWFObject and Best Practice Implementation
29. June 2009
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.
Continue reading...Giveaway - O’Reilly Books!!!
29. June 2009
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Continue reading...Flash Builder 4 - Deep Look Into Improvements!
26. June 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...Create a 3D Bowling Game with JiglibFlash and Papervision 3D
24. June 2009
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.
Continue reading...Create a Dynamic Event Calendar in Flex Builder 3 with Actionscript 3.0
22. June 2009
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.
Continue reading...Web Roundup: 21 Creative Flash Portfolios
19. June 2009
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.
Continue reading...Build a Dynamic Accordion Menu in Flash CS4 with ActionScript 3.0 and XML
17. June 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
15. June 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 Random Torn Photos with Actionscript 3.0
10. June 2009
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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- Build a Creative “Swirl Animated Menu” with Flash CS4
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- Giveaway - O’Reilly Books!!!
- Flash Builder 4 - Deep Look Into Improvements!
- Create a 3D Bowling Game with JiglibFlash and Papervision 3D
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Patrik Hübner 
1. July 2009
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