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Easily Create Souped-Up Flash Text Fields With TextArea

December 20, 2011 Tutorial Blog No comments

In this Tutorial I’ll walk you through the steps required to install and use the TextArea component as an alternative to Flash’s native TextField class, and show you how to detect mouse roll over/out events on hyperlinks. I’ll also talk about how you can call custom functions and pass different data types as arguments.

Quick Tip: Launch prettyPhoto from Flash

June 15, 2011 Tutorial Blog No comments

In this Quick Tip, see how to launch prettyPhoto from a Flash movie by using the ExternalInterface class and the prettyPhoto API. In this example, we demonstrate how to open from a Flash movie a single image, a youtube video and a vimeo video with the prettyPhoto lightbox.

Exclusive Freebie: Ten Fab Filter Effects for Your Flash Textfields

April 07, 2011 Tutorial Blog No comments

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If you enjoyed Muhammed Abid’s Tutorial on glassifying your text with Flash filters, you’ll love this Exclusive Freebie from frequent author Carlos Yanez. It’s a set of ten such effects, ranging from gold to bubble gum, which you can easily copy and paste to apply to any text in any of your Flash projects.

Quick Tip: Flash CS5 Text Input and Text Area Components

October 08, 2010 Tutorial Blog No comments

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In this Quick Tip on Flash Professional CS5 tools we are going to look at the Text Area and and Text Input components.

Quick Tip: Introducing the Button and Label Components

September 30, 2010 Tutorial Blog No comments

Welcome to a series of Quick Tip lessons in which we’ll learn about components in Flash Professional CS5. In this week’s Tutorial we’ll be learning about the Button and Label components.