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12
Dec

Grids: Image Gallery


Making image galleries in flash is very common. There are lots of different approaches, but the basic concepts stay the same. They’re usually XML driven and they usually have external image files that are dynamically loaded into Flash. This post contains an image gallery shell that builds off of the Grids: Arranging Clips post. This post assumes you are familiar with that post, and with AS3 XML parsing. We won’t be building this image gallery from scratch. Instead, I’ll walk you through the key aspects of the code This post also contains source for the shell with some TweenLite animation added.

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14
Dec

Sending Data from AVM2 to AVM1


In Chapter 13, we showed how to use a LocalConnection to communicate between an AS3-based movie in Flash Player’s AVM2, and an AS2-based movie in Flash Player’s AVM1. The example was basic, using functions to stop and start an animated movie clip. In this first of future additional examples, we’ll pass data into a function in the AVM! movie.

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