The new Flash&Flex magazine was released yesterday packed with interesting news and lots of useful information.
Flash&Flex Mag is a Bi-monthly and FREE magazine – the leading source of Flash/Flex practical knowledge. Each issue contains articles, tutorials, listings, codes, promotional offers that may give you many benefits!
I finally joined Active Den formerly know as Flash Den. ActiveDen is an Envato Marketplace. At ActiveDen you can buy and sell royalty-free Adobe Flash and Flex files for just a few dollars. Items are priced on the complexity, quality and use of the file. The site is home to a bustling community of Flash designers and developers and is the largest Flash library on the web.
Envato really hookedup a nice site and a handy resource if you looking for some awesome flash files. There’s also Audio Jungle, Theme Forest, Graphic River and Video Hive. Not only is it a market place but a some really good info about these topics. They recently changed their submission
flCodr is a very cool online source depositary for actionScript 2 & 3. flCodr was born as a repository of code that was centralised in one location, so that everybody can access them. The difference with flCodr is that the code can be accessed from within Flash by using the flCodr panel.
flCodr is two things:
* An online repository of Flash snippets (small bits of re-useable code you can use to save time when developing)
* An extension for Flash which gives you access to the online repository from within Flash, meaning that you never have to leave the autoring environment to get code
For the first time you will be able to access code directly from within Flash using a new extension, which will allow you to connect to an online repository of code snippets.
Check it out here or download the flash extension here.
Add a countdown to 2009 widget for your website. Copy the embed code and paste it in your blog post or HTML. Contact me if you want another date to countdown to and I will supply you with the SWF.
In this quick tutorial I will demonstrate how to create a sun effect with rotating sunrays. We will achieve this with some basic ActionScript and a some flash creativity.
This is what we will create.
So let’s get started.
1. Let’s start off with creating the core of the sun. Use the circle tool and draw the core of the sun in the middle of the stage.
2. Convert it to a symbol and call it sunwhole_mc.
3. Inside the sun symbol create 2 extra layers. One for action, one for the rays and one for the sun. Read the rest of this entry »
A quick and easy way to stream YouTube video into you flash files is by using PHP to grab the stream from the YouTube server and sending it to your flash document. This comes in quite handy if you are strapped for server space or if you want to put less stress on your bandwidth usage. And you also get to stream those classics.
In this example we will grab the file and stream it into flash.
In this tutorial I will show you how to load dynamic text into your flash document and then format it with CSS. This is really useful for a news section or text that regularly needs updating.
Overview
We will create a dynamic text field in Flash. Then load a normal text document formated with HTML tags. Finally we will apply the CSS to the dynamic text field. Read the rest of this entry »
In this quick tutorial you can learn how to add a custom context menu to you flash content. You can add a menu to a specific MovieClip or to the whole Stage area. I will show you both methods. Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been working on a lot of flash video lately and been playing around with building custom players. This is one of them that you can download. I am busy with an XML version with playlist integration. That will be available for download soon. Consider this as version 1.0. Read the rest of this entry »
