In the good old days of AS2, if you needed to create a banner for click tracking, all you had to do was tto palce this simple two line AS code in the first frame of your banner after creating a button MovieClip and that would do the job.
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Away3D
Away3D Features Away3D is a realtime 3D engine for Flash in ActionScript 3.0. Started in 2007 by Alexander Zadorozhny and Rob Bateman. The engine is Open Source under the Apache 2.0 license and is free to use for any purpose, also commercial projects.
Introduction to Arrays in ActionScript 3.0
This tutorial will teach you the basics on how to use arrays in AS3. Arrays are lists of data which are, unlike simple variables, capable of storing store more than one item at the same time. This use of arrays makes it easy to gather items of the same type in a single container to …
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Facebook App Development
A facebook web application is really a webpage loaded into an iframe in their interface. You can also develop desktop and mobile apps using some of the available tools and SDKs. For this post I will talk about the facebook web app that I created. I had previously created a flash game so I decided …
Flash AS3 XML tutorial
One of the major changes in AS3 is how you deal with XML content. While a lot of similarities carried over from the AS2 days, there are new time-saving niceties in AS3 that make working with XML files easier. One of the introductions is Ecmascript for XML, known as E4X for short. In this tutorial, …
Using Facebook Graph API In Flash AS3 (1.5)
This article is a beginner’s How To use the Flash Facebook API (facebook-actionscript-api), in particular in authenticating user and loading the user’s name in Flash applications.