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This is very important when working in flash and large amount of content. Flash movies tend to be fixed in width and height usually. If we have much content based on text or images and we have to fit that all in the same flash movie then here is what content scroll in flash will help us in doing it.

Flash Scroll bar

Custom Scroll bar With easing motion of content controlled by actionscript.

Download Flash Scroller

Simple Text Scroll

Very simple scroll controlled by two buttons.

Download Simple Flash Scroll

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Flash Mouse Effects

Hiroshi — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:39:39 +0000

In this section lets play with mouse cursor in Flash. You can do the following:

Mouse hide, show in Flash
Mouse Trailers in Flash
Creating Custom Mouse Pointer in Flash

Mouse hide, show

You can show or hide mouse by using following scripts.

Mouse.show();

Mouse.hide();

Mouse Trailers

Name Trailer

At blank stage place this action script.

Text = "Javed Khalil Hiroshi";
letters = Text.split("");
letterformat = new TextFormat();
letterformat.font = "Verdana";
letterformat.align = "center";
letterformat.size = "10";
spacing = 8;
speed = 3;
for (var LTR = 0; LTR<letters.length; LTR++) {
mc = _root.createEmptyMovieClip(LTR+"l", LTR);
mc.createTextField(letters[LTR]+"t", LTR, LTR*spacing, 10, 20, 20);
with (mc[letters[LTR]+"t"]) {
text = letters[LTR];
setTextFormat(letterformat);
selectable = false;
}
if (LTR) {
mc.prevClip = _root[(LTR-1)+"l"];
mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += (this.prevClip._x-this._x+5)/speed;
this._y += (this.prevClip._y-this._y)/speed;
};
} else {
mc.onEnterFrame = function() {
this._x += (_root._xmouse-this._x+10)/speed;
this._y += (_root._ymouse-this._y)/speed;
};
}
}

Creating Custom Mouse Pointer

Action on first frame

startDrag("/my mouse", true);
Mouse.hide();

Action on Mouse movieclip

onClipEvent (load) {
Mouse.hide();
}

While my mouse is mouse pointer movieclip name.

Download Custom Mouse Pointer Example

Download Mouse Trailers

Mouse Following Objects – Download Examples

Download Duplicate Movieclip Example

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Google Search From Flash Using ActionScript

Hiroshi — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:57:22 +0000

Here is a method to search Google from flash. AdSense users can also use this script.

Download Google Search From Flash Example

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Flash Hit Counter Using ActionScript and PHP

Hiroshi — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:45:44 +0000

We can create a simple hit counter using flash and PHP script which uses text file for storing hits. I have used a blank count.txt file, and php file. Create a dynamic text field in flash movie and name it count and you are done. Name the flash movie counter.swf or whatever you like.

PHP File Code (counter.php)

 
//Reading the file
$count = file_get_contents("count.txt"); //Increasing the count
$count = explode("=", $count);
$count[1] = $count[1]+1;
//Writing to file
$file = fopen("count.txt", "w+");
fwrite($file, "count=".$count[1]);
fclose($file);
//Returning the count
print "count=".$count[1];
?>

Flah Movie – Dynamic Text Field Count Scripting

this.loadVariables("counter.php");

Download Flash PHP Hit Counter

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Swap Depth In Flash

Hiroshi — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:37:38 +0000

Swap depth is changing order of movie clips. You can bring some movie clip at top level of other movie or behind it using Swap depth. Using ActionScript here is an easy example to do it.

Take two movie clips named as A and B and you can move them up or behind each others by swap depth.

Download Script

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Create Flash Slide Shows Using ActionScript – Example Downloads

Hiroshi — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:01:18 +0000

I have two very cool examples to share with you related to slide show in flash using ActionScript which offer smooth cross fading and sliding transition animations.

Slide Show 1 (Cross Fade)

Download Slide Show 1

Slide Show 2 (Sliding Effect)

Download Scroller Slideshow Example

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Flash Window or Movie Move – Dragable Content Using ActionScript

Hiroshi — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:53:39 +0000

Drag-able content is flash looks very sexy. Suppose you created a movie clip that had all the sound controls in it. You can enable it to drag freely across the main movie or within fixed parameters. I used it once at sound control panel. I had to create a movie clip that is able to appear and disappear and also it was able to move within fixed parameters. Its so cool.

Simple Movie Drag

Create a movieclip and name it d or whatever you like. In movie clip create a button and put actionscript on it.

on (press) {
startDrag("/d");
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}

Download Drag Script

Drag with Parameters and Control

To apply restrictions for specific area in which movie clip is drag able consider this example.

on (press) {
startDrag("_root.window", false, 92, 92, 458, 308);
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}

92, 92, 458, 308 are left, right, top and bottom parameters boundries window cant cross. Window is movie clip name which is concerned.

Download Script

Multiple Objects Drag Example

Movie Properties Control

Move movie clip right, left, up, down, resize, rotate, brightness, contrast etc

Download Movie Properties Control Example

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