Many Flash developers use either the Alert class for debugging, or trace statements due to associations with Flash. Flex does have a true debugger and it’s a great tool. I’m going to demonstrate how to get to grips with it in this tutorial.

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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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As ActionScript 3 becomes a more popular language and Flash Player’s features become more advanced and accessible, it’s important to build a common workflow within your company so that projects can become more agile and, more importantly, get delivered on time. One major issues with ActionScript 2 was bridging the gap between the designer and developer. This often left developers dealing with FLAs which contained hundreds of badly named library items and no one liked that.

With the advances of ActionScript 3 and the ability to code away from the timeline, SWCs have become commonly used items on large projects, but there are still many people out there who don’t know what they are or how to create/use them.

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In this tutorial we’ll quickly create two different Paypal buttons: "Buy Now" and "Donate". All we’ll need is a Paypal Business Account to generate some code for us.

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