In Flash MX you have the capability to load an external mp3 sound file into a flash movie using the Sound.loadSound() method. In the latest release of the Flash 6 Player it is possible to access the ID3 tags embedded in an mp3 encoded file. Unfortuneatley you cannot access the ID3 tags in an mp3 fil...

1. Before we begin creating the whole navigation system were going to have to create a new document depending on how many links you need. In this tutoria.....

1.Create a big rectangle as shown above. 2.Convert the rectange to a movie clip and give it an instance name of rectangle 3.Create a small square button . 4.Create a small text field give variable name hexcode. 5.Give action to the button as below.

Ok.. To start off. Lets set up the Stage of the movie. Set the Size of the stage to: width 400 by height 250. Make the background color Black, and set the Frame rate to 22. Next thing, Lets create the layers. Create 4 ...

Export your movie with either the width or height less than 215 x 138 and the Right-Click settings option will be disabled as above, this could be used to the flash author's advantage, ie.. Create a movie that asks for full permissions domain wide, and then from then on, swfs on your domain can use....

One of my favourite new features of Flash MX, has to be the new event model, it just makes life so much easier and makes coding so much more fun and so much more organised. If you dont know much about it, then now is the time to find out, you really are missing out, but no doubt you are already usin...

Sometimes it is necessary to determine if a file exists using actionscript, for example when you have a preloader cue, that loads a series of .jpgs one after another, if one of the files doesnt exist then the cue wouldnt traverse any further, you could of course use a timeout in that scenario but wh...

All movieclips automatically subscribe to amongst other objects, the Key objects event notifications, this means that you can define any of the Key event handlers within your movieclip, without having to explicitly subscribe to the Key objects, event notifications using the Key.addListener(mymoviecl...

Let's begin. Firstly select the rectangle tool. Draw a rectangle as big as the stage. The colour of the fill should be the colour that you want to your spotlight mask to be. Next select the text tool and type out the text over the box on the stage. Make sure the colour of the text is ....

This tutorial will teach you the fine art of creating your own generic preloader. That is, a preloader that you can drag and drop into ANY movie clip without modifying the code in any way. The preloader in this tutorial includes: - an indication of the percentage loaded - a preload 'bar' that g.....