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Preloading in ActionScript 3.0, the Easy Way

no@spam.com (Christopher Skyi) — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:00:00 CST

Difficulty: Easy
Time Needed To Work Through This Tutorial: 40 - 50 minutes.

Introduction: With ActionScript 2.0, the details about how to build a good preloader evolved over time to a point where it became relatively easy and painless to add a preloader to your application that worked in just about all the browsers.

Boy, did all of that change with the introduction of ActionScript 3.0.

If you want to take the basic ActionScript 2.0 approach and re-work it for ActionScript 3.0, you can do that -- but it's a lot of work.

If, however, you’re looking for something easy, fast, and reliable, you’ve come to the right place.

ActionScript 3.0, Classpaths, Packages and Project Organization and Management

no@spam.com (Christopher Skyi) — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:30:00 CST

If you’re brand new to Action script 3.0 and the new Adobe Flash CS3 or CS4 IDE, you may find yourself having some questions about basic project & file organization-management. For example, you may be wondering how best to organize project resources (e.g., class and other files). Further, you may be wondering how a particular project & file organization-management scheme will effect symbol linking and the importing of classes.

This tutorial will take you through three levels of project file organization – each more complex than the next. At each level, I’ll talk about symbols & classes and instances of those symbols & classes and how to “link” (or bind) them. I’ll also talk about packages. Everything a beginner needs to know.

Advanced Actionscript 2 Computer Graphics Particle Systems and Object Oriented Class Design

no@spam.com (Christopher Skyi) — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:00:00 CDT

Written by: Brooklyn Sky Design, [email:christopher@brooklynskydesign.com]
Difficulty Level: Intermediate to advanced Actionscript.
Requirements: Flash MX 2004
Topics Covered: 1) The basic idea behind "Particle Systems" as the basis for complex animations, and 2) an object-oriented design approach to building this type of animation.
Assumed Knowledge: Actionscript 2.0 and introductory knowledge of class-based algorithms.
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