Flash Tutorials by flashvalley.com

The event system has been revamped in actionscript 3.0, for the best of your future applications but for the worse if you still don't understand how to use it. Hopefully this little tutorial should bring some light on your knowledge.

If you are looking to create fancy effects for your games or Flash intros you have many options. Wondertouch particleIllusion 3.0 could be one of them. In that tutorial we will try to see if that little program dedicated to the creation of special effects can be of any use for us Flash users.

In this tutorial I would like to show you how we can use the BitmapData class in a practical and simple way to create a little color picking application just using a couple of methods and very little code.

If you want to create a game will probably reach the point where you need to animate a little sprite on the screen, the following tutorial is very simple, I will show you how you can control a sprite using the arrow keys.

You are probably very familiar with the tweening than can be assigned to a movie clip at authoring time but did you know that you could apply tweening to movie clips with easing effects just with code ?

In the world of Flash interactvities and multimedia applications it is always important to let the user know what is happening when the application needs to be paused while a fairly large amount of data is being loaded. To do that nothing's best than a nice preloading system.

Flash is mainly known as a program dedicated to producing animations and applications for the web that run in a web browser. This situation has evolved over the past few years...

In many occasions you might want a SWF to be able to retrieve data from another domain, by loading variables from a text file for example, or you might want to send data from a Flash email form to a PHP script that is sitting on another domain.

The localConnection class is not used a lot because a lot of Flash developers are not just aware of its existence. That class lets you communicate between 2 or more SWFs running on the same machine. This can be useful to develop complex interactivities between multiple movies running in the browser

Our world of Flash interactivities will suddenly shrink if our mouse was taken away from us, the mouse is with the keyboard a very important input device that let us converse quickly and efficiently with our Flash applications. Fortunately actionscript has some built in methods, properties and event