Monthly Archives: January 2009

Simple AS3 Slideshow Widget: Part 3

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 … Continue reading

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Simple AS3 Slideshow Widget: Part 2

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, … Continue reading

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Simple AS3 Slideshow Widget: Part 1

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 … Continue reading

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Testing Flash Projects w/ Dynamic Variables

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 … Continue reading

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AIR: File NativePath vs. URL

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.  … Continue reading

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