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What the color object does is allows you ways to apply color and alpha effects to movieclip objects much in the sense of a filter. When applied to a movieclip object, it is applied to everything within that movieclip.
October 27,
2006
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This operator is also used to shorten if tests. It is used in the case that: if something is true, then 1 (or 0) thing happens, otherwise 1 (or 0) thing happens. Usually, we would write it like this:
October 26,
2006
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In this tutorial I will explain how to pass variables to flash and what
October 25,
2006
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There's a very useful shortcut in if...else tests when you test whether a variable equals 0 or not. But you have to know how to use the ! operator. This operator is used to invert a boolean.
October 24,
2006
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To make a duplicate of an array proves more difficult than it seems. For instance, if you try this piece of code:
October 23,
2006
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First: what does increment mean? When I say that I increment a value by 1, it only means that I add 1 to this value. There are several ways I can do that, the obvious one being:
October 20,
2006
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There are several times when I found it helpful to get the position of an item contained in an array. This quest becomes especially useful when you are dealing with multiple arrays with items in one array corresponding with items in another array.
October 19,
2006
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_root is an alias, just as _parent and this. It is used to access the root of the current level. For instance, if you write this in the first frame of your movie:
October 18,
2006
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We have talked already about scope issues and addressing. They're tricky. Well there's very particular issue I want to talk to you about: the use of _root.
October 17,
2006
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One of the first problems programmers encountered when switching from Flash 5 to Flash MX was the variables scope. What I mean by variables scope is: where do I define my variables? And from where can I have access to them. In Flash 5, everything was quite simple.
October 16,
2006
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