In this lesson, I will explain to you what the ActionScript if/else conditional statement is and how to use it in your Flash movies through a visual example. You will learn:
Click on the dark area in the Flash movie below to see how the conditional if/else statement works behind the scenes to turn the light on and off.
In this lesson, I will show you how to create a an interactive sketchpad on which you and your users can draw. The sketchpad features an interface which allows you to change the thickness and the color of the line.
With this tutorial, you will learn:
Play around with the sketchpad below to see what you’ll learn to create!
In this lesson, I will show you have to make a very useful and widely used element: an interactive map. Whether it be a country map, like the case is here, or an anatomical map of human body, city plan, an engine schema, etc., the method applied is the same. It is very simple, as you’ll soon see.
Click the buttons on the right side of the map situated below and see what do they show you.
In this really easy tutorial, I will show you how to set up a mask via ActionScript and make it draggable.
Click on the rectangle in the Flash example below and drag it around to see what you’ll learn to create.
Ever seen this small piece of interface that can look really cool? A little crosshair-like cursor that shows the mouse coordinates in real-time? Or a similar design in sci-fi movies, like some cyborg’s targeting system, for example?
You’ll see in my tutorial that it is really, really easy to make. Move your mouse over the Flash example below to see an example of that.
In this easy Flash 8 tutorial, I will show you how easy it is to make an attractive and effective promo button. You will learn the following design techniques during the process of making this button:
Below is the actual example of the promo button that you are going to create in this tutorial.
In this tutorial, you will see how easy it is to create an internal preloader for your Flash site, complete with:
Moreover, you are going to learn:
The trace() method is your best friend in ActionScript. In this tutorial, I will show you how to use it so that you can check the values of variables, the number of iterations in a loop and the flow of a conditional statement. You will also learn what are comments in ActionScript and how to use them. Dive in!
In this lesson, I will show you how to create a background for your Flash document using no design tools at all! Besides being far more easy to change then a drawn graphic, this background created with ActionScript will adapt itself automatically to any size your movie may have. But more on that later.
The examples below show what you’re going to achieve at the end of this tutorial.
In this tutorial you will learn to create an interface that will enable your users to change the looks of your flash site with a simple mouse click.
This makes for a more appealing and interesting site. Also, if a user has any preferences over colors used in your site, or finds it easier to read text at a different size or color, you will enable him to do exactly that, thanks to some simple ActionScript code.
Look at the example below – try clicking the three buttons in the top right corner and see what happens. Slick, huh?