HYPE Framework for Flash
As you all know, Flash with ActionScript 3.0 is very powerful in creating Flash applications. But its a bit tough for newcomers to get used to it so fast in case of coding and creating something very exciting.
To make things simple for Flash beginners, HYPE Framework is introduced.
"HYPE is a creative coding framework built on top of ActionScript 3. A major goal of HYPE is to allow newcomers to Flash and ActionScript to creatively play and express themselves while they are learning how to program."
Inorder to start with it, you just need to know basic programming concepts like loops, variables, conditional and functions etc.
Here is just a quick demo of HYPE:
Using Motion Editor in Flash CS4
Motion Editor is one of the new Features of Adobe Flash CS4. This helps us in creating animations of nice quality, accuracy yet with a minimal of effort compared to the conventional way of animation we used to see until Flash Cs3.
Till now, if we had to create any animation, we have to create keyFrames, apply Tween, apply Ease if needed. If we had to remove the tween Undo Tween or Remove Tween. It was all a bit tedious one. But with new Motion Editor, all these tasks are made simple and quite fast with good accuracy.
Creating Dynamic Accordian Menu in Flash CS4 with ActionScript3.0 and XML
Recently i came across a very nice tutorial for creating a 'Dynamic Accordian Menu using Flash CS4 with ActionScript3.0 and XML' by Mario Santos.
Its totally dynamic as in all the menu Items can be configured in an XML and you can load text or image or a SWF in the opened state.
Final Output:
You can get source files for this turorials as well...
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