Flex Bar Preloader – when you are tired of standard Flex preloader this file is perfect for you. It is a custom Flex Preloader, really easy to use! You can embed it into your application in 60 seconds! Just type preloader=”MyPreloader” in the main application tag and that’s it!

tweetmeme_url = ‘http://www.blog.mpcreation.pl/video-player-flex-mxml-component/’; I have just uploaded on FlashDen my new product: Flex Video Player, you can easly add it to your project as a MXML component, customize the autoPlay, autoRewind, start Volume and source FLV . You can easly change the design or color. The UI is gerenated by actionscript code, also if you play around a litle bit you can change the width and height of the player.

Adobe has released a migration cookbook for those of you who want to change from AS2 to AS3 :) This cookbook is great it contains many useful information about as3 and huge amount of examples. You can download it here in pdf format. I have switched from as2 a year ago, It was worth it! All of you eventually will have to switch to as3. I think sooner is better :) Please tell me what [...]

XML Retro Gallery supports images, flv’s and swf’s. Very easy to edit. Clean and simple design, beautiful! Easily edit the gallery colors through the XML file! Features : Easy to edit. Simple design. Full Screen You can control the whole gallery through the xml file you can even setup the color of each button with the xml file! PDF help file included, very detailed! Comments in the code! Nice and simple preloader. Image, video, swf [...]

We already know how to load xml data, use event listeners and tweener ( if you are not fallowing along I recomend to read the previous tutorials: part 1, part 2 , part 3). Now it’s time to combine this knowlage in one project. We will make simple animated news reader that will display the title, date and description of our news. The data for this component will be loaded from xml file, we will [...]

[digg-me]There are many ActionScript code editors but which one is the best? We will talk about: Adobe Flex Builder 3, Flash Develop, Se|py ActionScript editor, TextMate and JEdit.

Simple XML Horizontal Menu. This menu is placed within one MovieClip. It has very smooth animation. You have full control over the menu through XML file, you can specify: button background color/alpha animated bar color/alpha font color space between each button height of buttons (width is automaticly adjusted to the length of the button name) the name of each button and the url that it will navigate too after click

Today we will learn how to load xml files into our projects. We will use xml file containing some text data. If you haven’t read the previous parts of AS3 Basics here they are: part1, part2, also if you don’t know what is XML check out wikipedia.

[digg-me]I have posted about this action few months ago but It was in Polish so this is the English version :) Today Lee Brimlow has posted about this on his blog and I though this message has to be spread! There is a way to get Flex Builder 3 for free. If you are a student just go to the freeriatools.adobe.com and submit scan of your student ID. I have done it few months ago, [...]

[digg-me]Yesterday I run into a problem, I was developing some project that was connecting to the Data Base placed on my server through amfphp, when I tested it from my computer everythink worked fine but when I uploaded it to my server and tried to run it, the script didnt work at all. The problem was I needen the crossdomain.xml file on my server. Sometimes to work with amfphp or some other server side scripts [...]