Category Archives: AS3

Image Generation with AS3 and PHP – Tutorial @ FlashKit

A new tutorial – Image Generation with AS3 and PHP – is now available at FlashKit. You’ll learn how to capture an image, a screen shot of a MovieClip in your Flash Application as BitmapData. You’ll learn how to encode … Continue reading

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Passing URL variables into Flash using FlashVars and SWFObject – Tutorial @ FlashKit

A new tutorial – Passing URL variables into Flash using FlashVars and SWFObject – is now available at FlashKit. You’ll learn how to pass variables from the URL into Flash, using SWFObject and FlashVars. The tutorial is available here.

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Listing image files in a directory with PHP – Tutorial @ FlashKit

A new tutorial – Listing image files in a directory with PHP – is now available at FlashKit. You’ll learn how to read the contents of a folder full of images and to create XML dynamically using PHP. Then, you’ll … Continue reading

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Flash Clock with the server’s time using PHP – Tutorial @ FlashKit

A new tutorial – Flash Clock with the server’s time using PHP – is now available at FlashKit. You’ll learn how to display date and time in Flash, using the Date Class. You’ll also learn how to output the time … Continue reading

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Drag and Drop game with ActionScript 3 – Tutorial @ FlashKit

A new tutorial – Drag and Drop game with ActionScript 3 – is now available at FlashKit. You’ll learn how to drag and drop objects in AS3. You’ll learn how to calculate the distance between two objects and use the … Continue reading

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Flash Mail Form with Swift Mailer – Tutorial @ FlashKit

A new tutorial – Flash Mail Form with Swift Mailer – is now available at FlashKit. You’ll learn how to send emails using the Swift Mailer PHP library and how to do this using an SMTP server (including GMail’s as … Continue reading

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Creating a SWC with FlashDevelop

In order to create a SWC using FlashDevelop you can use the ExportSWC plugin. This makes the process really simple. I was wondering how I could create a SWC like the one available in the AS3 Core Lib for example. … Continue reading

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Animated MovieClip on MOUSE_OVER, MOUSE_OUT

If you want to have better looking animations in buttons, you don’t use a Button, you use a MovieClip. This means that you’ll have to use some code to control the MovieClip. Play it forwards … Continue reading

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