Flash Professional tutorials and articles
Exploring the new 3D features in Flash CS4 Professional
Mariko Ogawa (Mar 23, 2009)
Get an overview of 3D: controlling rotations, animating with motion tweens, programming effects with ActionScript, and more.
Using timeline labels to dispatch events with the ActionScript 3.0 TimelineWatcher class
Bobby van der Sluis (Mar 16, 2009)
Use the TimelineWatcher class to programmatically monitor the timeline while keeping it separate from your application logic.
Getting started with Flash CS4 user interface components
Bob Berry (Feb 16, 2009)
Use Flash components to help you accelerate development of your web pages by providing elements that you can easily plug in and customize.
Embedding metadata with Flash
Tareq AlJaber (Feb 16, 2009)
Use the [Embed] metadata tag to work with embedded files in SWFs, such as graphics, symbols, fonts, and XML.
Code in Flex, test in Flash
Tareq AlJaber (Feb 15, 2009)
Ensure a smooth workflow between application design and development by coding your project in Flex and testing it in Flash.
Creating a simple animation in Flash
Doug Winnie (Feb 09, 2009)
Import artwork into Flash CS4 Professional, create an animation, and change an animation after you've created it.
Examining the ActionScript 3 Flash video gallery source files
Adobe (Feb 02, 2009)
Take a look at the source files for this popular video gallery project.
Creating the Kuler panel for Flash CS3 Professional
Ben Pritchard (Feb 02, 2009)
Examine how this panel, based on the online color theme-sharing tool, is constructed; and learn how the panel uses kuler APIs to extend the Flash authoring environment.
Debugging ActionScript 2.0 code: Lifting the blindfold
David Stiller (Feb 01, 2009)
Learn the ins and outs of debugging SWF files when variables and properties may change over time or in response to user input.
Flash CS4 Missing Manual excerpts: Video, testing and debugging, optimization, and sound
Chris Grover (Jan 06, 2009)
Read these chapters from O'Reilly Media to add sound to your animations, present video, test animation playback at a variety of connection speeds, and optimize your animations.
Creating a simple document in Flash CS4 Professional
Adobe (Jan 06, 2009)
Never used Flash before? Follow these simple steps to create a FLA file, add a simple animation, and publish your work in Flash CS4 Professional.
Google Analytics for simplified tracking of rich media websites
Nick Mihailovski (Dec 22, 2008)
Learn about the Google Analytics Tracking for Adobe Flash component, which makes it easy to implement website traffic analysis in your websites and RIAs.
Click and zoom 3D carousel
Lee Brimelow (Nov 10, 2008)
Learn how to create a true 3D carousel, so your objects will be sorted correctly in Flash Player 10. (35:28)
Interactive 3D video flip
Lee Brimelow (Oct 31, 2008)
Learn in this presentation how to use the 3D features in Flash Player 10 to create a 3D video flipper. (22:38)
Writing and running functional tests for Flash with Selenium RC
Paulo Caroli, Henrik Lindahl (Oct 28, 2008)
Extend the functionality of the Selenium web testing tool for testing Flash and Flex web applications.
Displaying images with the TileList component
Bob Berry (Oct 28, 2008)
Learn about the ActionScript 3 TileList component, which presents images or other display objects as tiles that are arranged in rows and columns.
Flash 411: Getting your video questions answered
Lisa Larson-Kelley (Oct 26, 2008)
Take the fear out of using Flash for delivering outstanding video on the web by watching these introductory overviews.
Using the Label component
Peter deHaan (Oct 15, 2008)
Explore the Label component, which displays a single line of text and is typically used to identify some other element or activity on a web page.
Filtering and formatting data in the DataGrid component
Peter deHaan (Oct 15, 2008)
Learn to use data grids to filter items in a data provider, align text in columns, alternate background colors in a data grid, set background color based on a row's data, and embed components into data grid cells.
Customizing and sorting the DataGrid component
Peter deHaan (Oct 15, 2008)
Learn how to customize data grid columns, sort data grid columns numerically, format numbers in data grid columns using a custom label function, and specify a custom text format for both data grid headers and data grid rows.