Archive for Flash

  • Flash CS5 for Designers: Using TLF Text as a Button

    It should come as no surprise that you can use TLF text as a button to kick off an event in your movie. For example, you could have a text block on the stage that talks about a visit to Times Square in New York, and when the user clicks the phrase Times Square, a photo appears on the stage. In this ...

  • Design and Develop a Fantastic Flash Shooting Gallery Game – Active Premium

    Plenty has been happening in the world of Tuts+ Premium lately, so let’s keep the ball rolling with another cracking tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. Here’s a brilliantly entertaining AS3 game tut, courtesy of Carlos Yanez. Take a look at (and play around with) the f...

  • Open Mike: Brackets

    Allman or K&R? This is Open Mike, a series of discussion posts to throw the cat amongst the pigeons. These posts are all about you — we want to hear your opinions, ideas, and thoughts. To kick things off, let’s talk about brackets. 1: Do you Cuddle? “Cuddling” braces m...

  • Layout for Silverlight User Interfaces

    Silverlight lays out user interface elements in Panels with various capabilities ranging from fixed, pixel-based layout through to flexible, fluid designs. You can make use of the existing layout mechanisms or build your own Panels to supplement what’s available. Let’s take a look at what...

  • Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day Two

    By day two at FITC it had become obvious to me that I had underestimated Flash as a tool for deploying all sorts of interactive digital experiences on the desktop as well as in public. It seems you have to see and hear first hand the different logic and technologies that go into creating these exper...

  • Introducing the Tuts+ Marketplace – Making Premium Accessible to Everyone

    We’ve just launched the Tuts+ Marketplace, where Premium quality tutorials – both from our Tuts+ Premium program and from unaffiliated authors – are available to purchase individually. Our Tuts+ Premium program will still stay exactly the same – you’ll get all the same ...

  • Flash CS5 for Designers: TLF and ActionScript + Win 1 of 3 Signed Copies!

    A lot has changed between how text was handled in Flash CS4 and Flash CS5. We think now is a good time to pull up a stool, sit down, and review, in very broad terms, what one needs to know about TLF before “wiring up” an exercise or project using ActionScript. The following is an exerci...

  • Using AS3XLS with the Flex Framework: Excel Import

    This tutorial will cover implementation of the AS3XLS ActionScript 3.0 library for the Flex framework. We will demonstrate loading an Excel .xls file into Flash and parsing the data into a Flex datagrid. View Screencast Don’t like ads? Download the screencast, or subscribe to Activetuts+ s...

  • Create an Epic War Game in Flash: Part 1 – Active Premium

    In this two-part Active Premium tutorial we’ll be building a top-down war game from scratch. Creating a game is definitely one of the most involved tasks in the world of programming and my mission here is to help Premium members make this process a little bit easier. We run a Premium membersh...

  • Should You use Legacy or Flash Media in CS5?

    InDesign CS5 has more interactive features that ever, but you should be careful with the media that you use....

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