Last Week on Flashtuts+

Flashtuts+, the “sister” Web site of FlashDen, is part of the envato Tuts+ network, and features some of the best Flash, ActionScript and Flex tutorials on the Web in an easy-to-follow and engaging format.

Each week on FlashDen we will provide a roundup of all the previous week’s tutorials from Flashtuts+ as a reminder to brush-up on your Flash skills or to learn something new.

Create an Apple Inspired Flash Preloader

Jun 19th in Web Design by Carlos Yanez

Preloaders are a must have in your Flash applications. They tell the user that the program is running but can’t show any contents until they’re sufficiently loaded. In this tutorial I’ll help you create an Apple inspired preloader MovieClip and teach you how to display some loading information. All this using Flash and ActionScript 3.0.

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Flash Catalyst Beta: First Look

Jun 19th in Reviews by Mario Santos

June 1st 2009; the date that Adobe released their newest tool aimed at “both designers and developers”. This was almost the slogan for Flash Catalyst, previously code named “Thermo”.

Let’s take a first glimpse at this powerful application which promises designers that they’ll now be able to participate in the development of Flash applications and websites.

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AS3 101: Functions

Jun 17th in ActionScript by Dru Kepple

This is part 2 of the introduction to ActionScript 3.0 series. We’ll be talking about functions. Just like last time, when we focused on variables, we’ll be primarily targeting the neophyte programmer, who has little to no experience with functions. However, even if you’re relatively comfortable with functions, you may want to skim through this tutorial if certain aspects of them – like datatypes and default values – aren’t quite sitting well with you.

We’ll spend the first half of the tutorial covering things at a more theoretical level, then put some of those ideas to use in the second half. We’ll be building a very simple piece with a series of buttons which swap out the content on another part of the page. There’ll be a few functions in use to accomplish this, primarily one that handles the setting of the content. Make yourself comfortable, go and take a look at the demo, then get stuck into the tut..

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Intro to Flash Camo Part 2

Jun 15th in Workflow by Jesse Freeman

Welcome to the part two of my introduction to the Flash Camouflage Framework. In part 1 we built the foundation for our site, components, labels, css parser, and set up our PropertySheet. In this part we’re going to focus on the design side of our site by cleaning up the layout, skins and adding interaction.

Let’s get started.

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