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Quick Tip: Guide to Creating and Using SWCs

Quick Tip: Guide to Creating and Using SWCs

on Jul 27th 2009 with 17 comments

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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Create a Shuffle Gallery in Flash Using XML and ActionScript 3.0

on Jul 24th 2009 with 38 comments

In this tutorial I’ll explain how to access and use the Display List whilst creating an XML based image gallery with ActionScript 3.0.

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Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!

Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong!

on Jul 22nd 2009 with 7 comments

Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong! – Free 37 Page Preview!

For web designers and developers who want to ensure they’re using the very latest, best-practice CSS techniques.

Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong! is an eye-opening exposé on CSS as we know it today. You’ll discover a fresh approach to coding Cascading Style Sheets where old hacks and workarounds are just a distant memory. You’ll learn how to start taking full advantage of the very latest CSS techniques while still catering for older browsers and discover what’s put the final nail in the HTML table-based layout coffin.

Offered Free by: SitePoint

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Creating a Feed Reader Widget with Adobe Flex 3

on Jul 22nd 2009 with 16 comments

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create your own Flex feed reader application. In this case, the final result will be a simple feed reader which can be used in your blog or site to display your favorite feeds.

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Simple AS3 Contact Form Using PHP

on Jul 20th 2009 with 36 comments

This contact form class is super-customizable and simple to use. I’ve used it in lots of projects and it’s easy to make it look different every time. Pretty much everything can be easily customized including all the colors and text and validation copy. Requires a server running PHP for the email to send.

Free for any use other than reselling.

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Introduction to Unit Testing

on Jul 20th 2009 with 17 comments

Unit testing is relatively new to ActionScript projects. Although FlexUnit has been around for a while it wasn’t intuitive to set up and there were a lot of inconsistencies with the documentation. Lucky for us, FlexUnit is now built into Flash Builder 4. Although the documentation is still sparse, this tutorial will be a good primer for setting up a Test Suite, going over several unit test examples and showing how to run/analyze them.

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Create a Realistic Vector Portrait Using Flash

on Jul 17th 2009 with 35 comments

Flash isn’t only about mathematics and complicated action scripts, it’s also about vectors. One of Flash’s most under-utilized options is its ability to create realistic vectors from scratch.

For all you hopeful vector artists out there who don’t have the pocket change to purchase another software application, or for those who just want to try vectoring the Flash way, this is the tutorial for you. Grab a cup of coffee and let’s get started!

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AS3 101: Branching – Basix
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AS3 101: Branching – Basix

on Jul 15th 2009 with 46 comments

In our third installment of AS3 101, we meet the brains of the operation. All applications need to have at least a little logic built in, so that is what we’re talking about: branching. We’ll meet the if statement, the switch statement and a little something called the lookup table (or hash map).

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This entry is part 3 of 18 in the AS3 101 Session
Best of Tuts+ in June

Best of Tuts+ in June

on Jul 13th 2009 with 4 comments

We’ve collected the top 5 tutorials and articles from each Tuts+ site in June, covering web development, Photoshop, vector art, audio production and music, After Effects, Flash and 3D. Now would be a good time to explore a part of the Tuts+ Network you’ve never seen before!

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Dynamic Advanced Long Lists with Flex

on Jul 13th 2009 with 10 comments

This tutorial demonstrates how a developer can easily extend the prepackaged Flex library classes to achieve superior user interface results.

In this case, we’ll be creating an advanced datagrid which can make insanely long lists into manageable chunks and display them as paged lists. This tutorial deals with primarily AS3, but has a dose of php and mySQL to support back end functionality. The application will be able to store and recall the list’s shown columns, current page, sort orders and sort fields. Let’s go..

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