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The snowing effect we are going to discuss here is similar to the effect being used in Our Flash Form and Flash Menu. A bit of actionscripts are required for the effect.

Sometimes, it is desirable to make your flash movie background transparent. E.g. when you want to achieve the following effect (a movie on top of the text content). Click Show & Hide to play with it.

Calling a flash movie's methods from javascript is very simple. There is a list of flash methods callable from javascript.

Masking is a very useful technique in Flash. By applying a mask on a movie clip, you can restrict the visible area of the target clip to the mask area.

To add sound to your flash movie is very easy. Just import a sound file (in whatever format the flash editor can handle, e.g. mp3, wav... etc), and pull it onto the stage!

If your flash movie needs to send and load dynamic data to/from your web server, you have to write some actionscripts. Since Flash MX, the LoadVars Object provide a handy way to send and load data to/from your web server.

We used some actionscripts to achieve the scrolling effect.

Want to alter your flash movie's runtime behavior without re-exporting it? Then you should consider parameter passing in Flash.

Creating a TextField in your flash movie is very easy. Basically, you can do most of the settings via the Flash editor UI, e.g. change the text color, font size...

A mask can restrict the visible area of the target clip to the mask area. So, what if the mask can move?