Flash MX 2004 comes with several components designed to help speed up the development time of performing the most common functions. In this tutorial we're going to be working with the ProgressBar Component and the Loader Component. They work hand-in-hand in creating preloaders.
In this tutorial, we'll be building a Drop-Down Info Box in Flash MX 2004. This box will "roll out" when a user moves their mouse over the button that triggers the behavior. When they move off of the button the box will "roll" back up.
Before you can create much of anything in Flash, you first have to learn how to draw with Flash's tools. Luckily, Flash has a lot of great tools to help you draw vector graphics and fill them will solid colors or gradients. In this tutorial, we'll be creating a simple bat image.
This is a cool little effect that you can easily create with Flash using nothing but ActionScript. What this effect does is randomly change the opacity of the movieclip to make it appear like it is blinking.
One of the things you'll find yourself often having to do is create scrolling text fields for your Flash movies. Luckily this is something that is fairly easy to do. If you used Flash MX you were probably aware of the Scrollbar Component, however this component is no longer available with Flash MX 2004. But it's still not a big deal to create scrolling text as you will see.
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