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Adding code for a clickable button to a URL in Flash

Adding code for a clickable button to a URL in Flash By Ray Villalobos Monday, November 22, 2010 Doing some simple things in ActionScript 3 like adding a button that clicks to a URL have gotten more complicated. Here's a simple piece of code that allows you to make a button click to a URL.

The easiest way to include Adobe Flash SWFs in your sites

By Ray Villalobos Thursday, February 04, 2010 Placing .swf files in your web pages can be complicated. The code that Flash creates when you publish a document can be daunting. I've created a simpler way using JavaScript to place these documents on your web pages.

Extreme Motion-Photoshop to Flash Part II

Extreme Motion-Photoshop to Flash Part II By Ray Villalobos Monday, April 02, 2007 If you've finished the first part of my From Photoshop to Flash tutorial, you learned that transparent PNG's are the best way to export files and bring them into Flash. In this tutorial, I'll take some of the special effects you developed in Photoshop and teach you how to achieve the illusion of extreme motion in Flash.

Programming Overview

By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 A short introduction to the core concepts of Flash ActionScript programming,

Object oriented programming

By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007

Review

In this lesson, we'll get into the concept of Object Oriented Programming. You'll learn about Flash's approach to working with objects and we'll start working on your first project. The breakout game.

Traversing the movie clip

By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 Flash's movie clip hierarchy is one of the key concepts all advanced users must master. Since movie clips can be embedded into other movie clips, it's important to understand how flash organizes the movie clip hierarchy.

Working with variables in Adobe Flash ActionScript 2.0

By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 Variables have a lifetime of their own. They are created and destroyed by flash as it needs them. To understand how programs operate and to prevent you from making mistakes in your development, the concept of the scoping of variables is important.

ActionScript 2.0 sounds in Adobe Flash

By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 You may be used to adding sound to your projects by adding a wav file to the timeline, but there's a better way. With a little bit of code, you can create a sound object that is easy to update and incredibly flexible.

Simulating Physics...movement & friction in Adobe Flash ActionScript 2.0

By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 Today, we'll review our second project, introduce the third project and I'll try to cover how you can use a little math and physics to make your games more interesting without getting too complicated. We'll look at some basic functions that handle basic movement.

How to program sounds in Adobe Flash ActionScript 2.0

By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 There are two ways to import sound using Flash. By inserting sounds into the timeline and by programmatically inserting sounds from the library. The second method is much more flexible. This lesson shows you how to take care of it.

How to hide the Mouse with Adobe Flash ActionScript 2.0

By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 Flash provides a very easy method for hiding the mouse. The mouse, like many things in flash is an Object of the Mouse class. Because it's an object, it posesses methods and properties.

Moving from Photoshop to Flash

Moving from Photoshop to Flash By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 So, you need to bring that Photoshop logo into Flash? Here's the best way to export your files. I'll also teach you how to use some filters and prepare some special effects for your Flash projects.

Learn how to animate typography in Adobe Flash

Learn how to animate typography in Adobe Flash By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 Learn the quickest way to animate anything in flash. This lesson focuses on a typical letter by letter animation on a long word. The techniques can be applied to any graphic as well.

Stoping & Encapsulating Animations

Stoping & Encapsulating Animations By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 Flash animations, by default repeat over and over. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use the Stop() command, and then I'll show you how to grab the animation on your timeline and encapsulate it so that it can be self contained as it's own movie clip.

Reveal Masking with Flash

Reveal Masking with Flash By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 Masks are a great way of revealing artwork. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do a reveal special effect using two versions of a photograph I doctored up in Photoshop.

Extreme Motion-Photoshop to Flash Part II

By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 If you've finished the first part of my From Photoshop to Flash tutorial, you learned that transparent PNG's are the best way to export files and bring them into Flash. In this tutorial, I'll take some of the special effects you developed in Photoshop and teach you how to achieve the illusion of extreme motion in Flash.

Learn to use Actionscript Sound for Multimedia Projects

By Ray Villalobos Saturday, February 24, 2007 So far, we've been using the timeline to insert sounds in our projects. This, however, is somewhat inefficient. Learn to Control Sounds through ActionScript with this Tutorial.

How to insert sounds in Flash dynamically

How to insert sounds in Flash dynamically By Ray Villalobos Saturday, July 29, 2006 I've read a lot of books about Flash and Flash MX and they list different ways of adding sounds to your movie clips. By far, the most useful is to create a sound object and attach a sound to it from the libary.