1. Start by creating a new document in Flash.
2. Press F9 to open the Actions Panel of your movie.
3. You will notice some of the buttons are greyed out, they will be selectable when you type some code.

Through the next few issues we are going to take this FLA and deconstruct the file showing you exactly how it's made and how you can make a similar-style site. I have always been a fan of this FLA because of it's clean design and load time. This FLA File is actually made up of several FLA'...

To keep visitors waiting for your animation to load you should always display a preloader and advise users how long they will have to wait. In Flash you have to program the preloader manually using getBytesLoaded, getBytesTotal and gotoAndPlay functions. Fortunately Flash Designer does the ActionScr...

1. You need to make the object transparent in this project.
2. Create a new file.
View > Rulers
View > Grid > Show Grid
View > Grid > Edit Grid (10 X 10 px)
3. Drag the horizontal & vertical guide lines to get the center.
View > Guides > Lock Guides

Ok, imagine the scenario where you have a number of movies on the page, and each movie has to have the capability of sending and recieving data from and to any of the other movies. To achieve this with LocalConnection you have to use a little bit of trickery, because LocalConnection only allows one ...

Open a new movie in Macromedia Flash Import the picture you want to apply the effect to Go to Modify>Trace Bitmap... And use these settings...

We are going to show the most characteristic uses of code ActionScript in the different objects existing in Flash 8. This way we'll understand it better and why not: we'll save much effort having many of the already prepared codes here to use in our movies.

How to Close Browser Window From a Flash File Without Prompt

To create the text animation:
Launch Flash Designer. Choose "Frame" > "Frame Size" to set movie dimensions. Choose "Text" tool and click on the frame. Type the text (for example "Text Animation") and click OK.
Choose "Edit" > "Align" > "Center on Page" to center the tex...

This is a simple effect that let's you replace the user's cursor with a custom one (it can even be animated).