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Getting Started With AS3 and Flash CS3

no@spam.com (Victor Gaudioso) — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 00:00:00 CDT

In this tutorial Senior Flash Engineer Victor Gaudioso shows you how to create your first Flash CS3, ActionScript 3.0 project and how to use a Document Class to drive your application. Further he exaplains new AS3 concepts such as the Document Class, namespaces, importing of classes, linking of multiple Objects to one Class, the Display Object and how to add children to it as well as the new syntax for methods, Event Listeners and Event Handlers.

Button Animation with RollOver State that Stays when User Clicks a Button

no@spam.com (Victor Gaudioso) — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 00:00:00 CDT

In the last week I have viewed two posts from users asking how to make a set of buttons that have rollOver states that stay when the user clicks one of the buttons. Further, when another button is clicked they want the other buttons to go to the rollOff state while the button just clicked stays in the rollOver state.

So let's get started!

How to Load Data and Use it From XML

no@spam.com (Victor Gaudioso) — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 CDT

This is a very simple tutorial on how to create an XML document and pull the data from that document into Flash and make use of it.

Time: 10 minutes
Skill Level: beginner

Setting up a Development Environment and Using gProject to Create Custom Classes

no@spam.com (Victor Gaudioso) — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:00:00 CDT

Difficulty: Intermediate
Time: around 20 minutes
Description: This article teaches you how to set up a Flash development environment with best practices as well as how to use GProject to create custom Classes using packages.