In this, his first tut at Flashtuts+, Yanko takes you through building a dynamic ‘Hot Products’ list using old favourites ActionScript 3.0 and XML. He also smoothes things out by utilizing the Caurina Tweener class. Enjoy..
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Create an Attractive Digital Clock in Flash
ActionScript 3.0 is a very powerful language, capable of creating anything from simple and light utilities to full-featured desktop applications.
In this tut, we’re going to create something simple, a basic and good looking digital clock in Flash.
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AS3 101: Arrays – Basix
In this installment of AS3 101, we’ll spend the entire tutorial exploring a single type of data available to most programming languages: the Array.
Arrays are ways to keep lists of values. Arrays are useful to keep an arbitrary number of related items grouped together, and can represent complex data structures though nesting. In ActionScript, Arrays have quite a bit of flexibility and functionality, as we’ll see. After the usual abstract introduction, we’ll apply what we’ve learned (whilst also learning some more along the way) by building a rather simple puzzle game.
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This entry is part 4 of 18 in the AS3 101 Session
Create a Responsive Image Scroller in ActionScript 3.0
This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a horizontally scrolling image viewer. It will cover xml parsing, loading and resizing external images, and creating intuitive and responsive scrolling!
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Taking a Closer Look at the ActionScript 3.0 Event Framework
In this tutorial I’ll explain about the ActionScript 3.0 Event Framework. After this tutorial you should have a clear understanding of how events, event dispatchers and event listeners work.
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Using AMFPHP with AS3 and CodeIgniter
It seems that the AMFPHP project has now been laid to rest, unfortunately it never made it past the 1.9 beta version and nor did the tutorials. However, Adobe didn’t give up on it that easily and with the new Flex compilers they’ve included the AMF3 object encoding!
Good news for all you Flexers, but it’s a different story for all you AS3′ers. Flex allows you to quickly and simply build a service that will interact with your AMFPHP code, but you have to get your hands dirty with AS3. So, I’ve decided that it’s time there’s a decent set of classes out there that help Bob build a site with AS3 using the AMFPHP gateway.
And to throw some more dirt into the mix, we’ll be integrating AMFPHP with CodeIgniter so that we have a fantastic PHP framework for the backend.
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Plotting Points Using Yahoo! Maps and RSS
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to get started with the Yahoo! Maps API in Flash. We’ll load a couple of RSS feeds and plot some natural disaster warnings using their longitudes and latitudes.
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Prepare a Network Ready Banner Ad in Flash
When designing Flash ads for deployment over an ad network it’s required for the ad to have tracking capabilities embedded within it. This is accomplished through proper use of the ClickTAG ActionScript statement. ClickTAG will determine the behavior of the ad when the user interacts with it. It will also allow the ad network to track the ad, the number of impressions delivered and the click-through rate.
In this tutorial we’ll learn how to create a Flash ad for deployment.
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Build an AS3 Photo Slider Widget for Social Networking Sites
Today we’re going to build a Photo Slider widget which can be placed on social networking sites like Orkut or MySpace. This widget will be based on Google’s Open Social API and contains a Flash application, which will show all photos from your public photo albums in a slideshow.
"Plug-in classes" will handle the transitions of the slideshow and this tutorial will include writing two of those "plug-ins".
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Create Your Own ActionScript 3.0 Pixel Explosion Effect
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create an effect which has surely caught your eye before (for example in files such as this one), the Pixel Explosion. During the process of making it we’ll learn how to extract BitmapData from a MovieClip, how to use a tweening engine and how to use event listeners.
Let’s get started then!
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