I have been working hard to compile statistics on my photo blog. Currently I have most visited photos and photos by camera. I wanted to create a dynamic chart and luckily, Flex 3 has a charting component that was easy to use. There were a lot of tutorials out there on Flex Charts (mostly bar [...]
Flex PieChart with XML input
I have been working hard to compile statistics on my photo blog. Currently I have most visited photos and photos by camera. I wanted to create a dynamic chart and luckily, Flex 3 has a charting component that was easy to use. There were a lot of tutorials out there on Flex Charts (mostly bar [...]
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Accessing Imported Objects in ActionScript 3
I learned the bulk of my understanding of ActionScirpt 3 with UNC’s “Bringing Education to Life Campaign”. I rewrote the code for the base flash file 3 different times, each time updating the code with what I had learned. The site was created using modules, in which if we wanted to add something new, we [...]
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How to Track Clicks in Flash Files with
Google Analytics
Recently at the University of Northern Colorado we launched our new brand, “Bringing Education to Life”. As part of the launch the web team was charged with coming up with a landing website for the brand. The site was created in Flash and when you click on different links, it uses the UILoader component in [...]
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Create a Closed Caption Video Player Skin
On Monday we created a closed captioned video player using flash and ActionScript 3.0. For the next part of this tutorial we will take our existing code and change our player into a skin. Right now, the player from Monday can only play our Frontier Airlines commercial. If we want it to play a different [...]
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ActionScript 3.0 Basics
When I was deciding what topics I wanted to write about for my blog I had a hard time determining the difficulty of the tutorials. As a result I thought I would do an intro to ActionScript 3 tutorial before diving into more advanced code.
In this tutorial we will use look at the basic structure of an AS3 document, how it connects to Flash and how it gets compiled. You will need a copy of Flash CS3 or Flash CS4; if you don’t have this you can get a 30 day trial version from Adobe.
