This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here I have a mash-up of 3 very useful techniques: Create an array of all children inside any Movie Clip or DisplayObjectContainer Shuffle that array Animate all the items in that array in sequence And oh yeah, no instance names.Read More

This swf illustrates a basic scenario of outputting various elements in an Array in a continuous loop. This movie requires Flash Player 9 Let’s not waste any time. I’m going to show you how to take all this function nextDay(e:MouseEvent):void { if (count < numDays - 1) { count++; } else { count = 0;...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 I’m going to show you how to make a super simple sound toggle with ActionsScript 3. GreenSock’s MP3Loader and Volume Plugin drastically minimize the amount of code you need to worry about. You’ll be in and out of here in a matter of minutes. No Sound(), SoundTransform(), SoundChannel() or...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 I was “walking by” a tv that was showing American Idol the other night and was mesmerized by this mega screen of pulsing tiles that was behind the performers. I was instantly compelled to try to build the effect with Flash. With a little timer, loop, conditional logic and...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Here is a fun little technique to get your brains spinning. This simple scroll technique can be used to scroll any number of items in a continuous loop. Use the “toggle mask” button in the swf above to see how the end clips are being lobbed off and sent...Read More

This movie requires Flash Player 9 Back on topic. Got a real doozy for you today. This simple lesson can have some huge impact on the integrity of your Flash or javascript apps. I recently found out that I’ve been using a faulty random number function for ages. Take a look and see how one...Read More