Flash CS5 for Designers: Using TLF Text as a Button
Sep 3, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
It should come as no surprise that you can use TLF text as a button to kick off an event in your movie. For example, you could have a text block on the stage that talks about a visit to Times Square in New York, and when the user clicks the phrase Times Square, a photo appears on the stage. In this example, you are going to click some text, and a yellow star you will create on the stage starts spinning. The following is an exercise from Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers by Tom Green & Tiago Dias.
Tags: Actionscript 3.0, activetuts, basix, code, freebies, Silverlight, star, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials, web design
Design and Develop a Fantastic Flash Shooting Gallery Game – Active Premium
Sep 2, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
Plenty has been happening in the world of Tuts+ Premium lately, so let’s keep the ball rolling with another cracking tutorial exclusively available to Premium members . Here’s a brilliantly entertaining AS3 game tut, courtesy of Carlos Yanez. Take a look at (and play around with) the final result we will be working towards: This Premium Tutorial is Packed with Design and Development Tips Using the Flash Tools we’ll create good looking graphics that will be powered by several ActionScript 3 classes like MouseCursor, Tween Nano, Sprite, Timers and other Events. The user will be able to input a player’s name and destroy a predefined number of dartboards before the game ends.
Tags: code, Design, facebook, Flash, freebies, games, mobile, premium, tools-amp-tips, workflow
Open Mike: Brackets
Sep 1, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
Allman or K&R? This is Open Mike, a series of discussion posts to throw the cat amongst the pigeons. These posts are all about you — we want to hear your opinions, ideas, and thoughts. To kick things off, let’s talk about brackets .
Tags: actionscript, Actionscript 3.0, activetuts, AIR, code, Flex, freebies, premium, Silverlight, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials, web design
Layout for Silverlight User Interfaces
Sep 1, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
Silverlight lays out user interface elements in Panels with various capabilities ranging from fixed, pixel-based layout through to flexible, fluid designs. You can make use of the existing layout mechanisms or build your own Panels to supplement what’s available. Let’s take a look at what’s involved.. In this video, we’ll examine the Panels available and the various properties around alignment and sizing that come into play when you’re laying out elements for Silverlight UI.
Tags: actionscript, basix, Flex, games, mobile, premium, Silverlight, Tutorials, videos
Franci’s FITC San Francisco Diary: Day Two
Aug 31, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flash Catalyst, Flex, General, Tutorials
By day two at FITC it had become obvious to me that I had underestimated Flash as a tool for deploying all sorts of interactive digital experiences on the desktop as well as in public. It seems you have to see and hear first hand the different logic and technologies that go into creating these experiences to actually realize that you might be able to pull it off yourself.. I’m talking about most of us who have experience with Flash and AS3 and a bit of extra creativity in store. FITC has given me a fresh set of ideas and opened up a new playground I can experiment in.
Tags: actionscript, activetuts, basix, Design, download, Flash Catalyst, mobile, Tutorials, videos, workflow
Introducing the Tuts+ Marketplace – Making Premium Accessible to Everyone
Aug 31, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
We’ve just launched the Tuts+ Marketplace , where Premium quality tutorials – both from our Tuts+ Premium program and from unaffiliated authors – are available to purchase individually. Our Tuts+ Premium program will still stay exactly the same – you’ll get all the same things, for the same price. But now, non-members will be able to purchase selected Premium tutorials on a one-off basis, without a Premium membership . Hey! Look for this link! So far we’ve added nearly half our Premium tutorials to the Tuts+ Marketplace, and will be adding more over time.
Tags: Actionscript 3.0, activetuts, articles, basix, Design, facebook, Flash, marketplace, news, Tutorials
Flash CS5 for Designers: TLF and ActionScript + Win 1 of 3 Signed Copies!
Aug 30, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
A lot has changed between how text was handled in Flash CS4 and Flash CS5. We think now is a good time to pull up a stool, sit down, and review, in very broad terms, what one needs to know about TLF before “wiring up” an exercise or project using ActionScript. The following is an exercise from Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers by Tom Green & Tiago Dias. If you’re feeling lucky, enter the Activetuts+ competition to win one of 3 signed copies! (Of course, you can always purchase a copy ..) Introduction With the new TextLayoutFramework (TLF), text is found in these things called containers .
Tags: articles, basix, class, configuration, container, freebies, library, Silverlight, stage, Tutorials, web design
Using AS3XLS with the Flex Framework: Excel Import
Aug 27, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
This tutorial will cover implementation of the AS3XLS ActionScript 3.0 library for the Flex framework. We will demonstrate loading an Excel .xls file into Flash and parsing the data into a Flex datagrid. View Screencast Don’t like ads? Download the screencast, or subscribe to Activetuts+ screencasts via iTunes!
Tags: actionscript, Actionscript 3.0, AIR, basix, Flash, games, Silverlight, tools-amp-tips, Tutorials, videos
Create an Epic War Game in Flash: Part 1 – Active Premium
Aug 26, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
In this two-part Active Premium tutorial we’ll be building a top-down war game from scratch. Creating a game is definitely one of the most involved tasks in the world of programming and my mission here is to help Premium members make this process a little bit easier. We run a Premium membership system for $9 a month (or $22 for 3 months!) which gives members access to extra tutorials, like this one! You’ll also get access to all other Premium content (Psd Premium, Net Premium etc.) and whilst logged in, your favorite Tuts+ sites are all completely ad-free ! This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips Our war game will implement many different concepts from building a background based on xml data to breaking colors into separate channels using bitwise operators. The game itself will not be like some MMORPG (it would probably take several volumes of a book to describe the process of complicated game creation).
Tags: actionscript, AIR, basix, facebook, Flash, Flex, freebies, games, premium, Tutorials
Silverlight and XAML
Aug 25, 2010 AIR, Actionscript 3.0, Flash, Flex, General, Tutorials
XAML is a key part of Silverlight development – it allows you to declaratively define your user interface and it makes it easy for tools such as Visual Studio and Expression Blend to share that UI definition. In this video we take a look at some of the key features of XAML that you’ll encounter whilst working with Silverlight and also a little around how XAML ‘works’ in your Silverlight applications. What’s Covered? Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s covered in this screencast: The alternative to XAML Anatomy of a XAML document Visual Studio design and code views Naming and accessing elements Element properties XML namespaces Custom types within XAML Resource dictionaries View Screencast Don’t like ads?
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