Hi there! This is a basic tutorial about masks in Flash that I wrote especially for Flash beginners. Is you are intersted in masks, how to put a text as mask or how to dynamically create a mask in Flash then this tutorial may be really helpful.

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Drag and Drop activities are commonly found in flash applications, especially in elearning and games development. I’ll explain how to create simple Drag and Drop in Flash, but also some advanced methods about how to drag an object on a restricted area or how to drag on a specified vertical or horizontal line.

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I will explain now how to create a slideshow using JavaScript only. So, prepare 3 awesome pictures for your slideshow having dimensions 400×300. Give them the names picture0.jpg, picture1.jpg and picture2.jpg.

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In a 5 minutes break I did a list with shortcuts in Flash that I use every hour :D

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If you want to put a digital clock on your website you can use the following JavaScript tutorial. I’ll show you how simple is to realize a board with London, New York, Tokyo clocks. This thing can be very useful for business websites.

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According to Adobe (more details on Adobe website) the coverage of Flash player  9 is a little bit over 90% from Internet users in Europe, United States, Canada and Japan.  I see Europe means only United Kingdom,  Germany and France. Anyway I think Europe is a little bigger :D. Pretty cool percent I guess and hope the numbers will  keep growing up.

It’s nice to have displayed current date on your website. A way to do this is to fit in a Flash banner. In this tutorial I will show you how you can display date in the format Wednesday, September 19, 2007 using ActionScript language.

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Gradient mask mean a mask that fades with the MovieClip masked, and not suddenly finished. For being more understandable see in the below how a gradient mask (the left circle) or a  non-gradient mask (the right circle) will look.

Gradient and non-gradient mask in Flash

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Typewriter effect in flash can be useful in creating banners or presentations. This tutorial explaines how to create a flash type writer effect using ActionScript.

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This tutorial is about how to create cool tabs for a Flash 8 menu directly in Flash. For this I use gradients and Gradient Transform Tool. I will try to describe in detail how these work in flash.

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