ActionScript Posts

ActionScipt No Longer Supported

These blog posts are for ActionScript, which is a programming language for Adobe Flash Player. Unfortunately, Adobe Flash is no longer supported for web applications, so this information is likely not very useful to most developers. We are keeping it for those who still enjoy ActionScript and for posterity. We named our company after it, after all.

Flash Random Scene ActionScript

I recently created a Flash Animation that would randomly play one of three different Flash scenes. Then after each scene, it would go back to the beginning and randomly...

ActionScript – Loading Screen – Part 3

The third part of this ActionScript Loading Bar Tutorial will be putting together everything we have learned so far in this tutorial and making it work. At the end...

ActionScript – Loading Screen – Part 2

The second part of this ActionScript Loading Bar Tutorial will be discussing that ratio between the bytes loaded so far and the total size of the movie in bytes....

ActionScript – Loading Screen – Part 1

Here is a Loading Bar I developed using the ratio of Loaded bytes to total bytes. ActionScript _xscale This script uses three main elements. The first one we will...

ActionScript – this

This ActionScript/Flash Tutorial is like all of my tutorials, quick and to the point. I hope I don’t type too fast for you. 😉 Using “this” in...

ActionScript Basics – Structure

My Last Post discussed ActionScript Variables. Now I’m going to do a quick run down about ActionScript Structure. You will notice that many different programming...

ActionScript Basics – Variables

This post is about variables in AcrionScript (the programming language for Macromedia/Adobe Flash). ActionScript Basics Some very quick basics // <- These two...

Tutorial – Flash ActionScript – Path

Animating with Flash is great! It’s the most fun you can have while making a website. But a flash animation doesn’t become interactive without ActionScript....