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14. August 2008

Expanding the AS3 Videoplayer

Alright, here's the second part of the video player tutorial. We will be adding the following new features: - Playlist support - Fullscreen support - Save volume - Clickable progress/volume bar

30. July 2008

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How to build a AS3 Videoplayer

Today we explain you how to create a videoplayer with some basic features like this one. These are: - Play/Pause - Stop - Preloading - Scrubbing - Volume handling There will be another tutorial, which will extend this player. So be sure to check it out. Requirements Adobe Flash CS3 Try / Buy Source Files Download Constants As always, we begin with setting [...]

23. July 2008

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Create a AS3 Slideshow with XML

This tutorial shows you how to create a simple slideshow using as3/flash and xml

How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML - Part 2

17. July 2008

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How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML - Part 2

In this second, and final, part we'll be learning how to save and edit the file and how to setup the bindings between the xml and our component.

Creating a Weather Widget with XML and AS3

16. July 2008

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Creating a Weather Widget with XML and AS3

In this tutorial I'm presenting you a little weather widget, that could come handy for travel websites, or our personal page. If you make some changes on the code, you could show a different interface on your website, according to the weather on your city. Pretty cool stuff. We gonna connect weather.com XML data file with our flash widget. Weather.com offers us a free service to do that.

14. July 2008

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The Tech Labs at Adobe Feeds

The Tech Labs are now available through the Adobe Feeds aggregator. If it is the first time you are reading about The Tech Labs, then let us make a small introduction to you. The Tech Labs is a blog/tutorial site for web designers and developers. We run tutorials on technologies, skills and techniques to improve how you design and build websites or desktop applications. We cover Air, Flash and Flex.

Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

9. July 2008

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Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

In this tutorial I will show you how to build a simple 3D photo album in AS3. We will build an application similar to this one. I will use two AS3 libraries: FIVe3D and TweenLite, both open source. Five3D is a lightweight 3D library written by Mathieu Badimon. TweenLite is one of the many libraries available for script based animation in AS3. It was created by Jack Doyle from Greensock. It's principal characteristic is that it's small (hence it's name) and simple to use. FIVe3D and TweenLite work very well together!

Create a AS3 MP3 Player with papervision3d spectrum display

6. July 2008

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Create a AS3 MP3 Player with papervision3d spectrum display

As we've already promised you, here's the tutorial about how to create a 3d spectrum display from a sound file with papervision3d and flash. On this tutorial, we'll focus on the 3d part. If you're not comfortable with the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum method then you should read the previous tutorial.

Make your own Flickr search engine with Flash and AS3

21. June 2008

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Make your own Flickr search engine with Flash and AS3

Flickr stores on their servers, photos form all their users around the world, and they have an open api so you could interact with it, and make your own developments, like PicNik.com, the photos online editor, where you could import your Flickr photos and make it look really cool. Now in this tutorial I'm gonna show you how to interact with the flickr data base, making your own photo search engine, looking for tags on the photos.

17. June 2008

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Create a Flickr Viewer using Flex

In this tutorial, you will learn how to integrate photos from Flickr in your Flex application, using as3flickrlib.

11. June 2008

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Create a Card Flip Effect For Flash Player 10 using ActionScript 3

It surprises me that one of the most commented upon and downloaded classes from my blog is a card flipping effect. With that in mind, I thought it might be an interesting exercise to recreate this effect targeting Flash Player 10. As of the writing of this article, Flash Player 10 Beta (Astro) and the corresponding API documentation have been released. This article will step you through the classes used to achieve a card flipping effect using the new rotationY property that exists in Flash Player 10.

28. May 2008

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Create a AS3 / Flash 9 MP3 Player with spectrum display

In this tutorial, we’re going to build a Flash mp3 player with a spectrum analyzer written in AS3. We’ll focus on the spectrum analyzer and build just the basic functionality for the player itself.

24. May 2008

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How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML

This will be the first part of our first tutorial: How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML. For the first part of this tutorial we’ll be reading, parsing and searching an XML into an AIR application and going through the whole getting it to compile and exporting a release version.

See more articles in the archive

Expanding the AS3 Videoplayer

How to build a AS3 Videoplayer

Create a AS3 Slideshow with XML

How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML - Part 2

Creating a Weather Widget with XML and AS3

The Tech Labs at Adobe Feeds

Building a 3D album with FIVe3D and TweenLite

Create a AS3 MP3 Player with papervision3d spectrum display

Make your own Flickr search engine with Flash and AS3

Create a Flickr Viewer using Flex

Create a Card Flip Effect For Flash Player 10 using ActionScript 3

Create a AS3 / Flash 9 MP3 Player with spectrum display

How to build a contact manager in AIR using XML

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