Creating appealing data visualization has always been one of Flash’s key features. It allows you to achieve eye candy results with real dynamic data; be it in a preloader, a game, or an office presentation.

This simple tutorial will show you how to build a needle gauge meter. You’ll learn how to apply a “gloss” effect, communicate with XML, and apply a tween engine to rotations.

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During the this tutorial I’m going to take you through building a simple slider that will scroll a personal microsite. We’ll use the GreenSock Timeline Lite class and demonstrate just how straight-forward it can make your Flash animation workflow.

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2010 will see several changes here on Activetuts+, one of which you’ll see implemented across all the Tuts+ sites: Quick Tips. Quick Tips tuts will be short, informative, simple, effective and will demonstrate something achievable during your lunch break!

Bruno is kicking off the Quick Tips here at Activetuts+, with a great tip on creating perfect reflections. Got 5 minutes? Off you go then..

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How you approach a problem is to some extent your key to accomplishing good solid work. This walkthrough will guide you in the six most commonly used methods for button creation and show you in which situations they are best put to use.

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Tired of those old-fashioned animated Christmas cards with Santa Claus laughing, a sleigh flying in the sky with a bunch of trees and sparkling lights?

This year you have no excuse. I’m going to show you how to build a virtual keyboard that plays Jingle Bells. You’ll even be able to extend the concept and add more songs and notes to the piano.

For this tut I’ll be using a combination of Tweenlite, the Flex SDK, the Flash IDE and Flash Develop.

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Ever wondered how design guru Joshua Davis makes those choatic images? I did. With his art as inspiration I grabbed a cup of coffee and set out to mimic his style. This tutorial is aimed at designers and flash beginners, and documents my process of achieving something similar to Joshua’s early compositions.

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In this tutorial I’ll show you how to build a flexible, animatable tagcloud using an Object Oriented Programming approach. I don’t believe in a right or wrong method, but rather several degrees of efficiency. If you have any constructive criticism on my code feel free to comment.

That said, lets start!

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