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Creating a Basic Flash Video Player

2.4 years ago on December 15, 2009
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So now that we have our video we can open up Flash and start working on the player. Flash makes creating components easy with the Components and Component Inspector panels. We could write the ActionScript to generate these components from scratch or we could take advantage of these and drag and drop them to the stage.

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Creating a Flash Clock

1.7 years ago on August 21, 2010
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Creating a Flash clock can be a fun and epic experience. All you need is a little bit of ActionScript and a few simple lines. I have seen JavaScript clocks which are very similar but do not require a Flash player, those are a little more complex since they interact with HTML and do not take advantage of our easy drawing tools. Although it is possible, this won't be a pure ActionScript clock as all of our design components will be hand-drawn. Please note that basic Flash drawing skills are required and not covered.

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Date Difference in ActionScript

1.1 years ago on March 26, 2011
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Here's one way of calculating and displaying the difference between two dates in ActionScript. This example attempts to extend your knowledge of working with dates in ActionScript (and its cousin, JavaScript). It takes a date format as a string similar to PHP's date function.

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Download Free ISO Codes and Exchange Rates

7 months ago on October 16
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These are some free, regularly-updated ISO code sets downloads compiled from various sources. These include from countries and languages to currencies and exchange rates. All documents have UTF-8 encoding. Save the files to your own server.

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Databaseless Currency Conversion for PHP

10 months ago on July 14
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Google Weather API Class for PHP with Caching

3 months ago on February 9
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A reliable, easy-to-search, international weather feed service is hard to come by. There are lots out there, but they either require a complicated sign-up process, are limited to a single country, or make searching for location weather a multi-step process.

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Creating a Basic Flash MP3 Player with ID3

8 months ago on September 3
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Here's the structure of a basic Flash MP3 player. Song information is retrieved from the file itself through its ID3 tags. For the most part, all functionality is written with ActionScript. There are also drawn components such as the Movie Clip bar fills, which use the ColorTransform class to dynamically alter its color.

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