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 [...]

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]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 [...]

In part 1 I have covered some basics of AS3, I talked about where to find help when you have any kind of ActionScript 3.0 problem, I posted some usefull links but we havent done anythink practical (if you havent read the part one here it is) :) In part 2 we will make  simple AS3 menu (see it) that uses the Tweener for animaction.

Hi guys, yesterday friend of mine came to me and ask if I could teach him basics of ActionScript 3.0, He didn’t have much experience with flash but while a go he did some basic stuff with timeline and as2. So I though it will be cool to make series of articles/tutorials about basics of AS3. This series will be perpoused for people who have some experience with flash, but don’t worry if you don’t [...]

I have notisted that not many of you know about that. You can call an Event handler function normaly without the dispatchEvent. For example you have the button Click handler function: private function buttonClick(e:MouseEvent):void { trace("button click"); }   /*If you write a function like this and you will call the buttonClick(); you will get an error that you havent provide the the Event.*/   private function buttonClick(e:MouseEvent = null):void { trace("button click"); }   [...]