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Actionscript and timelines

no@spam.com (Henrik Andersson) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:00:00 CST

A deep down explanation of exactly how timelines, framescripts and actionscript interact.

Twitter application tutorial and source code from Sony Ericsson!

no@spam.com (Youness -) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:30:00 CST

For those of you who are wondering how applications like twitter can be developed for mobile phones like Sony Ericsson devices. Well fortunately Sony Ercisson has recently published a tutorial for this purpose. Though the tutorial focuses more on the use of Sony Ericsson Flash Lite 2.2 UI Components in developing real mobile applications. Developers can still have access to the source files and the supporting MXP plug-ins. The Twitter application of this tutorial allows users to browse and post tweets.

Note: Support for Project Capuchin is required for the application to run on the phone. A list of phones supporting Project Capuchin can be found here.

Sony Ericsson Flash Lite UI components and project Capuchin

no@spam.com (Youness -) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 CDT

This tutorial shows how to use Sony Ericsson Flash Lite 2.0 UI Components in developing real mobile applications.

The MP3 Player application lists MP3 files in the “music” folder on the memory card in the phone, builds a playlist and gives the user possibility to play a selected song or go to next/previous song. The following data is displayed for the song being played: ID3 tag (if available), music length and remaining time.

Note: Support for Project Capuchin is required for the application to run on the phone. A list of phones supporting Project Capuchin can be found at: http://developer.sonyericsson.com/device/searchDevice.do?defaultSearch=true&attributes=e3b7531a-468c-40c5-9e54-8b1ce192ebb3.

Creating a Reflection Effect with AS3

no@spam.com (Jean Andr� Mas) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:30:00 CDT

A full tutorial about creating a reflection effect with actionscript3.

Simple Enemies

no@spam.com (Andy Crockett) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:00:00 CDT

Dynamically creating multiple enemies to 'shoot' with the 'gun' you created in my last tutorial.

Using integrated animation properties in SPAS 3.0

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:30:00 CDT

Difficulty: Easy
Time Taken: 15 minutes
Summary: In this tutorial, we will create a basic effect that can fast be adapted to all kind of applications, such as widgets or tool palettes.
The effect consists in an autonomous “popup” window which is able to show or hide its content when the user clicks on its title bar.

Change text formating of cells in DataGrid

no@spam.com (Tecsi Aron) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:30:00 CDT

Short tutorial of how to change text formatting for individual cells of a DataGrid

Creating AIR widgets using SPAS 3.0 and Flash

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:00:00 CDT

In this tutorial we will see how it is easy to create AIR widgets using SPAS 3.0 "uiobjects" and the Flash IDE.

Taken time: 30 min.
Difficulty: intermediate

Shooting Bullets

no@spam.com (Andy Crockett) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:00:00 CDT

Firing off bullets (or attaching MovieClips with ActionScript in them) is very simple and effective in lots of ways other than just bullets.

Creating multi-player game - TicTacToe

no@spam.com (Prashanth Hirematada) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:30:00 CST

A step by step tutorial making a multi-player game in flash/flex(AS3).