Flash Tutorials by Jayanthi

While watching cartoons or certain ads, I always wondered, how do they give this blur effects to depict characters moving fast. I still don't know how they do, but getting the same effect in flash 8 is really simple.

When we say we are enhancing text in flash by implementing â??stylesâ?? to it, We certainly mean we have a styles (.css) page and an HTML page, which is loaded into flash.

We will use 'drawing methods' of 'movieclip class' to draw shapes in the SWF file in response to events. The following are the movieclip class drawing methods.

flash.filters package contains 'BlurFilter' class, which allows us to apply 'blur visual effect' to movie clips, text fields, and buttons at runtime.

Similar to Photoshop and Fireworks, Flash 8 has this new "effects" feature, which includes, drop shadow, blur, glow, bevel, gradient glow and garient bevel effects.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to adjust volume of an externally loaded MP3 file in flash. As we all know, to get this done, we are basically revolving around sound object. The method used to adjust sound volume is setVolume() of sound object.

To load external MP3 files at runtime, we need to use loadSound() method of Sound class.