Flash Tutorials by jordan82

Since we can change the location of sprites by changing the x or y coordinates, animation is easy. All that we have to do is constantly change the x or y positions.

Earlier we looked at the text format object as a way of doing simple formatting. What if you need more control? This is where you can use CSS to get a lot more flexilibity over your formatting.

In the toolbox there is a symbol that looks like a T this is for typing text on the stage.

Learn how to make a button that has a better interface using Flash/Action Script

In this tutorial, we are going to make a few sprites on the stage. Then we are going to add some sprites on to the other sprites. This will get us a lot closer to being able to make some nifty games with depth.

An external CSS file allows you to store your style definitions outside of the code. This has a few benefits.

Sometimes, when you have a text field you want to change how the text is display. Perhaps, you want the color to be red, or you want to change the font size? How can you do this? In the flash.text package there is a class called TextFormat that allows you to change the formatting of text fields.

These methods require you to set all properties like coordinates and fill colors as we did before with graphics.beginFill. Then a single drawing method is used to process the data and draw the shape.

ActionScript contains a lot of methods for drawing all sorts of graphic primitives. With these graphic primitives, we can draw anything complicated that we want. We could make a drawing application very similar to MS paint. It wouldn't be hard to make something even better than paint.

I am going to show you how to make a simple GUI with Flash and add some action script code.