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Playing YouTube Videos In Flash Using ActionScript 3.0
This tutorial will teach you how to play a YouTube directly inside your Flash movie without having to navigate to the YouTube website. This is possible to do by using the YouTube API provided by Google for developers to their own websites and applications on top of YouTube. The example below shows a YouTube video…
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Thinking in Commands: Part 1 of 2
Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Activetuts+. This tutorial was first published in March, 2010, and is the first part of a series. Simple, maintainable code is beautiful. However, when we have a sequences of actions that need to trigger each other, our code can…
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Fixing Bugs in AS3: Introduction
In this tutorial, I’ll describe some of the basic information you need to debug your Flash applications. Finding and resolving errors in your ActionScript is no small task, so this is actually just the first article of a series. In this installment, we’ll take a look at some of the general things you can do…
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Download Files Via SWFs Using FileReference
This Quick Tip covers how to use AS3′s FileReference class in order to download and save external files from Flash RIAs without the need for server side scripts like PHP. All we need is the path of the file that we want to let the user download. View tutorial
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Create an Apple Inspired Flash Preloader
Preloaders are a must have in your Flash applications. They tell the user that the program is running but can’t show any contents until they’re sufficiently loaded. In this tutorial I’ll help you create an Apple inspired preloader MovieClip and teach you how to display some loading information. All this using Flash and ActionScript 3.0.…
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Using ‘Google Maps’ New Features for Flash
After such a positive response to my first tutorial Implement a Map Using the Google Map API for Flash I decided to write a second. Since that first tut the Google Map API has been updated, allowing developers to (amongst other things) add 3D viewing to maps. This is a great feature and during this…
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Detecting Key Combos, the Easy Way
Have you ever been amazed at the variety of attacks in fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Bros, Soul Calibur and others? Now you can learn how to create an engine to detect key combinations and build your own fighting game as well! View Tutorial Source (http://active.tutsplus.com)
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Detecting Key Combos, the Easy Way
Have you ever been amazed at the variety of attacks in fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Bros, Soul Calibur and others? Now you can learn how to create an engine to detect key combinations and build your own fighting game as well! View Tutorial Source (http://active.tutsplus.com)
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Detecting Key Combos, the Easy Way
Have you ever been amazed at the variety of attacks in fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Super Smash Bros, Soul Calibur and others? Now you can learn how to create an engine to detect key combinations and build your own fighting game as well! View Tutorial Source (http://active.tutsplus.com)