A pack of 33 nice animations for flash preloaders was released.
We tried to offer a wide range of preloader’s styles for you, so you will be able to use at least one animation in your application.
Let us know your ideas about this package. Maybe there is something you would like us to add?
You may use these animations as: progress animation, loading animation, activity animation, process indication and etc.
Read more at 33 flash preloaders animations package page.
Flash and animation are the two things which do not exist separately. I think Flash was created for animations.
In this article, I would like to describe some techniques which you may use to create Flash animations in code, in your AS2 or AS3 code.
What is the animation in terms of code? My definition is that animation of any object is the smooth changing of its properties, which might have effect on object’s location, shape, size, transparency and so on. The task for actionscript developer is to implement that smooth actions.
IDE stands for ‘Integrated Development Environment‘.
IDE is the place where you write your code.
For most of beginning AS developers this is Flash IDE (Flash MX, Flash 8 or Flash CS3). For basic code like gotoAndStop and gotoAndPlay standard code editor is just nothing more needed.
However, when you grow up as a programmer and step deeper into ActionScript classes and language paradigms you will feel that Flash IDE is not what developers might dream about. There is a number of editors which support ActionScript language, however I would recommend the one I use myself.
Continue reading ‘IDE for ActionScript developers. Could it be comfortable?’
Update: New version of Flash preloader component was released with new features and new documentation. Please go to new Free flash preloader component page >>>
The following information is about older 1.0 version.
Free Flash Preloader component provides an easy way to add a nice visual loading indicatior when loading images or external swf files.
You may skin the preloader component and display any flash animation while loading your data.
It is extremely simple to use. Just place an instance of preloader component on the stage:
And set the parameters:
Continue reading ‘Free Flash Preloader Component – simple but featured loading activity indicator.’
This is just a small note for all of those who is still developing using AS2.
The complete DON’T for AS2 classes is:
Never ever do create objects of your members arrays in declaration. Create them in the constructor instead.
Continue reading ‘ActionScript2’s DON’T!’
