Tracing & Displaying currentFrame number in Flash ActionScript 3
While working in Adobe Flash, there are times when you want to know the current frame number of the play…
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[AS3] Playing Flash Video using FLVPlayback Component and skinning FLV player
While creating an interactive training application, I had to play video in a box after video image thumbnail click and…
READ ARTICLE →[AS3] Creating a Simple Custom Preloader in Flash using ActionScript
Adding preloader in your Flash file is necessary if your swf file size is large, and in my opinnion, anything…
READ ARTICLE →[Nokia N900 X Terminal] cp: How to fix Omitting Directory, Permissions Denied Linux Command Errors
While updating few files in a game on Nokia N900 using X-Terminal, files did not copy when I used cp…
READ ARTICLE →Google Adwords turns 10! Congratulations and Happy Birthday!!
Google sent an email today to mark AdWords’ 10th birthday by thanking advertisers for advertising with Google with a personal…
READ ARTICLE →[AS3] Dynamically adding styles to TextField Component with TextFormat class in Flash using ActionScript
In AS3, styling the text content dynamically is done using TextFormat class. Create a new Flash AS3 file, In the…
READ ARTICLE →[AS3] Dynamically Adding & Removing Drop Shadow Filter onto MovieClip in Flash using ActionScript
There are number of cool filters available in Flash CS[X] such as Drop Shadow, Blur, Glow, Bevel etc. These can…
READ ARTICLE →[AS3] Dynamically create border around MovieClips in Flash using ActionScript
While working on a project, I needed to highlight the selected thumbnail of an image, and this is how I…
READ ARTICLE →[AS3] Passing variables from HTML using SWFObject JavaScript to Flash
Using FlashVars is a very useful way to load dynamic data from the URL or HTML page containing Flash swf…
READ ARTICLE →[AS3] Replacing Strings in Flash, String Manipulation in Actionscript 3.0
While working on a Flash AS3 application, I needed to manipulate a string and found out that old AS1 and…
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