ActionScript 3.0 Tutorial

In this Flash CS3, CS4 Tutorial I am going to go over the method hitTestObject. This is a more advance Flash Tutorial, so is you get lost feel free to check out some of the earlier flash tutorials. You have already learned how to drag and drop and object. Now, you need to be able to detect if that object has hit another object. In this flash tutorial I will be using the mouse events, but you can easily change the code to work with keyboard commands.

Flash Contact Form, What professional looking website doesn't have a great contact form. I mean lets face it a simple mailto link is second rate. But how does one create an email form in flash? This tutorial will teach you the proper way to create a great email form.

If you use the code provided in this Flash Tutorial you will find that the headers of you email are properly formatted. That means the your email will actual say the name of an email not just some strange ip address. Better yet your headers are properly formatted so you can simply click the reply button.

For an added bonus if you purchase the source code you will receive the source files for an email form that lets you specify the sender as well as the receiver.

Users hate to wait, and there is a good chance the will leave your site without every actually seeing your hard work if your site takes to long to load. In this Flash CS3 and CS4 Tutorial, I am going to show you how to make a Preloader using ActionScript 3.0. A Flash Preloader will tell users to be patient the site as working and will finish loading soon. A Flash Preloader is reasuring to the user, where as a blank white screen is scary. Often a user will feel that a blank white screen means that a site is broken. And why should a user wait for a broken site if they can just go somewhere else. The trick to keep the user from leaving is to simply use actionscript to create a short, simple, fast loading, animation that entertains the user. ActionScript Preloaders need to be small. Preloaders need to load quickly or there is no real point in creating one. So remember a simple nice looking preloader will work better then a fancy complex animation.

The concept of a Flash Preloader is rather simple. You tell Flash using ActionScript to compare the amount of data loaded with the total data in the movie. Then as this comparison value changes go do something, in the case of this Flash Tutorial that something is to fill a box.