2 September 2010

Design and Develop a Fantastic Flash Shooting Gallery Game – Active Premium


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Plenty has been happening in the world of Tuts+ Premium lately, so let’s keep the ball rolling with another cracking tutorial exclusively available to Premium members . Here’s a brilliantly entertaining AS3 game tut, courtesy of Carlos Yanez. Take a look at (and play around with) the final result we will be working towards: This Premium Tutorial is Packed with Design and Development Tips Using the Flash Tools we’ll create good looking graphics that will be powered by several ActionScript 3 classes like MouseCursor, Tween Nano, Sprite, Timers and other Events.

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3 August 2010

Display Suggestions in a TextField using AS3 and External Files


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Suggested Terms is an excellent usability element which helps the user select a better option or just increase search speed. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create and display suggested terms in a Flash application.

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23 July 2010

Interface Between Two Files Using the LocalConnection Class


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In this tutorial we will use the AS3 LocalConnection class to send and receive data between two different SWF files. Today we will use this to detect mouse movement in one SWF and mirror it in another. Final Result Preview Let’s take a look at the final result we will be working towards.

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12 July 2010

Handling Screen Architecture: The Painless Way!


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Ever thought screen architecture was a needlessly painful and tedious task?

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10 July 2010

Resizeable Deeplinking XML Events Calendar


Resizeable XML Events Calendar ,Vector based and resizeable, Full deeplinking function ,Full search …

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8 July 2010

The Bistro Restaurant Template (Retail/Hospitality)


The Bistro Restaurant Template is an XML -driven, Flash template designed for small restaurant websites. It includes four distinct sections: Home, Menu, Events and Contact. Key Features XML -driven, easy to customize settings Liquid layout that resizes itself to your browser window Customizable background color HTML text formatting for text fields (special characters included) Scrollbars to allow for lengthy text content (including mouse wheel functionality) MP3 player with sound waveform visualization Multiple image rotators PHP contact form with e-mail address validation Interactive location map Customizable XML Settings Following are some of the settings that can be modified via the included XML files… Background settings (background color, visibility of decorative vines, visibility of lights) Your custom logo and all images Your custom location map image MP3 track(s) Text content for each section (HTML formatting) List of typical special events (shown on the Events page) Contact information (shown on the Contact page) Optional footnote and copyright notice Additional Notes FLA file in CS3 /CS4 format, ActionScript 3.0.

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23 June 2010

The Software as a Service (SaaS) Pattern Explained


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(Reprinted courtesy of O’Reilly from the Book “Web 2.0 Architectures”. Purchase book here ) The Software as a Service (SaaS) acronym has confused many people as vendors have abused the term to hawk anything with a network capability.

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20 May 2010

Flash Player 10.1 Beta launch at Google IO


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Surprise! Today at Google I/O Vic Gundotra, Google VP Engineering announced Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe AIR 2.5 running on FroYo. The launch today represents a milestone that we’ve been working towards for some time, and all of us at Adobe are hugely excited to see Flash Player 10.1 finally get into the hands of consumers. The beta is now waiting on the Android Market for Nexus One and Motorola Droid users with Froyo to test out

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