http://www.good-tutorials.com/user/flashvalley flashvalley's submitted tutorials on Good-Tutorials.com. en-us <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19048.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> Shared objects are to the Flash player what cookies are for the browsers, they can be used in many circumstances and are very useful to retrieve data between sessions. flashvalley Wed, 23 May 2007 11:00:10 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19048/using-shared-objects http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19048/using-shared-objects <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19046.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> This tutorial shows you how to load variables from a text file using the LoadVars class instead of the deprecated LoadVariables and LoadVariablesNum. flashvalley Wed, 23 May 2007 11:00:05 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19046/loading-variables-from-a-text-file-with-loadvars http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19046/loading-variables-from-a-text-file-with-loadvars <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19056.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> You tried the demo of Flash and you really want to learn more about it ? Good choice Flash is a wonderful piece of software, Flash is a door that opens on a land of wonders now you need to unlock that door. This article will hopefully help you to find your own keys. flashvalley Wed, 23 May 2007 01:30:01 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19056/learning-flash-the-ins-and-outs http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19056/learning-flash-the-ins-and-outs <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19059.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> Flash is mainly known as a program dedicated to producing animations and applications for the web that run in a web browser. This situation has evolved over the past few years with a couple of programs known as SWF wrappers, Flash wrappers or SWFtoEXE programs, that open the door of desktop application development to a lot of Flash developers and Flash designers. flashvalley Wed, 23 May 2007 01:30:01 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19059/creating-desktop-applications-with-flash http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19059/creating-desktop-applications-with-flash <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19051.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> Are you an organized Adobe Flash developer or designer ? here are some tips and tricks that might help you to improve your productivity. flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 21:30:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19051/organizing-and-structuring-your-adobe-flash-projects http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19051/organizing-and-structuring-your-adobe-flash-projects <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19043.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> There is plenty of reasons why you would like to create a grid in Flash, if you are creating a sudoku a crossword activity or a chess game you will surely need to create a grid with cells that need to be interactive and able to display some kind of data (graphics or text). flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 20:00:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19043/creating-a-grid-dynamically-with-actionscript http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19043/creating-a-grid-dynamically-with-actionscript <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19049.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> Learn how to create a simple address book in Flash using shared objects and the list component. flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 20:00:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19049/creating-a-simple-address-book-using-shared-objects http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19049/creating-a-simple-address-book-using-shared-objects <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19039.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> In the world of Flash interactivities and multimedia applications it is always important to let the user know what is happening when the application needs to be paused while a fairly large amount of data is being loaded. To do that nothing's best than a nice preloading system. flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 19:32:09 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19039/preloading-movies-and-pictures-with-the-moviecliploader-class http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19039/preloading-movies-and-pictures-with-the-moviecliploader-class <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19042.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> The localConnection class is not used a lot because a lot of Flash developers are not just aware of its existence. That class lets you communicate between 2 or more SWFs running on the same machine. flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 19:32:09 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19042/communicating-between-swfs-using-the-localconnection-class http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19042/communicating-between-swfs-using-the-localconnection-class <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19050.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> This article will give you some tips and tricks that will help you to optimize your Flash content to be sure that your SWF will run fast and smoothly on most computers. flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 19:30:05 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19050/optimizing-your-flash-swfs http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19050/optimizing-your-flash-swfs <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19047.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> learn the ins and outs about arrays in actionscript. flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 19:30:03 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19047/using-arrays-in-actionscript http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19047/using-arrays-in-actionscript <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19044.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> Learn how to create advanced drag and drop activities in Flash. flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 17:00:02 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19044/advanced-drag-and-drop-in-flash http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19044/advanced-drag-and-drop-in-flash <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19040.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> In many occasions you might want a SWF to be able to retrieve data from another domain, by loading variables from a text file for example, or you might want to send data from a Flash email form to a PHP script that is sitting on another domain. flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 16:30:01 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19040/transferring-data-across-domains-using-crossdomain-xml http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19040/transferring-data-across-domains-using-crossdomain-xml <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19041.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> In this tutorial we are going to examine more precisely the properties _xmouse and _ymouse, the mouse events onMouseMove, onMouseUp, onMouseDown and onMouseWheel as well as the method Mouse.hide and Mouse.show. flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 16:30:01 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19041/mouse-control-and-actionscript http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19041/mouse-control-and-actionscript <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19037.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> In this tutorial I would like to show you how we can use the BitmapData class in a practical and simple way to create a little color picking application just using a couple of methods and very little code. flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 16:00:05 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19037/color-picking-with-the-bitmapdata-class-and-the-getpixel-method http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19037/color-picking-with-the-bitmapdata-class-and-the-getpixel-method <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19038.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> You are probably very familiar with the tweening that can be assigned to a movie clip at authoring time but did you know that you could apply tweening to movie clips with easing effects just with code ? flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 16:00:05 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19038/dynamic-tweening-using-the-tween-and-easing-classes http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19038/dynamic-tweening-using-the-tween-and-easing-classes <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19045.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> Although it is very easy to format your text at authoring time, it is not the case when you want to load text dynamically in a dynamic text field. This tutorial shows you how to load HTML-formatted text in a dynamic text field. flashvalley Tue, 22 May 2007 10:30:05 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19045/loading-html-formatted-text-in-a-dynamic-text-field http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19045/loading-html-formatted-text-in-a-dynamic-text-field We all make mistakes and this is good because it is how we learn. I thought it would be a good idea to try to set up a little list of common mistakes that I regularly see in Flash development. flashvalley Mon, 21 May 2007 15:02:00 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19058/common-mistakes-in-flash-development- http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19058/common-mistakes-in-flash-development- <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19057.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> 5-6 years ago there was the phenomena of &quot;Flashmania&quot; all over the web. Big corporate names, especially in the car industry, were all going for full Flash websites. But where have they all gone ? It looks like most of these companies are now back to the old HTML way of doing things. What happened ? Well it looks like things have just been put into place. flashvalley Mon, 21 May 2007 15:01:17 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19057/flash-versus-html-a-real-debate- http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19057/flash-versus-html-a-real-debate- <img src="http://www.good-tutorials.com/images/icons/19036.jpg" height="40" width="40" /> Using basic shape tweening for animation. flashvalley Mon, 21 May 2007 09:56:54 +0000 http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19036/shape-tweening http://www.good-tutorials.com/tutorial/19036/shape-tweening