Flash Tutorials by simpleflashblog.com

hitTest() method is very useful for flash developers especially when creating games or elearning applications. In this tutorial I will give a simple example on how to detect collision between two movie clips using hitTest() method.

Sometimes the users don't need the whole information available on your flash movie. When you create Flash applications it will take much more time to load if you have the whole content in one file than if you load the content user wants from external sources.

This tutorial is about how to load some content from a XML file in a flash project. It will be loaded a random text from the XML file.

Flash preloaders are very useful in keeping the audience involved while the main content is loading. That is why the preloaders should be fun and attractive.

It’s nice to have displayed current date on your website. A way to do this is to fit in a Flash banner. In this tutorial I will show you how you can display date in the format Wednesday, September 19, 2007 using ActionScript language.

Typewriter effect in flash can be useful in creating banners or presentations. This tutorial explaines how to create a flash type writer effect using ActionScript.

This tutorial is about how to create cool tabs for a Flash 8 menu directly in Flash. For this I use gradients and Gradient Transform Tool. I will try to describe in detail how these work in flash.