This is the final post in a three part tutorial detailing the creation of a Flash slideshow widget using ActionScript 3.0. Have a look over Part 1 and Part 2 before moving ahead. In this post, we are examining the two methods which actually handle image loading and display within our module. private function switchImage(e:TimerEvent):void […]
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In Part 1, we had a look at the basic structure of what we are working toward, including a PHP file to read images from a directory and return a list of images to Flash, the setup of our FLA, and the basic construction of our document class. This widget, being so simple, will only
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This is a simple example of how to build a dynamic slideshow widget in Flash using ActionScript 3.0 such as the one seen here. The first thing you’ll need to do is set up an FLA with the properties you’d like to exhibit. Stage resolution is set to 500×300 with a black background. This will
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Many of the Flash modules and widgets I write are part of a larger system. Normally, some sort of ID or other variable piece of data will need to be passed in as flashvars upon initialization to allow the SWF to function correctly, making the appropriate data calls and so forth. When testing in the
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This would have saved me some time had I read the documentation a little better. When looking at the members of a flash.filesystem.File object, I was initially using “nativePath” to discover the location of the file on a users system. Knowing that path formatting differs between operating systems, I had a little logic in there
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