Flash Training Videos – Tutorials

Creating Flash components using data stored in XML format is a common task. For example, Flash galleries are often designed in such a way that the selection of images can be changed without having to alter the .fla source file itself; loading the image data in via XML is an ideal solution in this case. ActionScript has built-in libraries for processing XML documents, although there are significant differences between ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0 in this regard……

Tweening is one of the basic building blocks of animation. An animation is basically a sequence of images combined and displayed in a way that makes it appear to the human eye like a moving image. Tweening is one of the processes used to accomplish this….

There are two main ways to create a dynamic text field in Flash, one using the flash interface and the other using ActionScript, this flash tutorial will give you a fundemental understanding of this works….

When you open the Flash authoring environment, you’ll see a number of different sections displayed. In addition to the default display, various other controls are accessible if you choose the Window menu from the top toolbar. Don’t feel overwhelmed by the interface, to begin creating Flash movies you’ll really only need to worry about a few parts of it; the rest you’ll gradually familiarise yourself with as you work along……

Given that Flash is used primarily on the Web, database driven components are a common requirement. In order to use data in this way within your Flash movies, you will need to use some sort of server-side scripting language, such as PHP. We use server-side scripting to communicate with a data source on the server, and Flash has some built-in capabilities for handling the data at the client-side…