Allows users access to a part of your movie only if they have the password.

An essential part of any web-based Flash Animation. This tutorial will show you how to make a percentage display & progress bar preloader.

This lesson is for the people, who know basic algebra, geometry and intermediate in Flash.We shall create the movie in which a button-movie and its destination point will appear in random places of the scene. If you click on the button, it will move to the destination point by random trajectory and the button size will decrease to 0. After this, the button will call callback function on the _parent, and everything will be from the beginning.Let's discuss design of the button-movie.

Using the color object in Flash 5 you can change the color of your movie clips.

The aim of the tutorial is to learn how to create a menu or other object that slides on and off stage. There a two reasons why you would use ActionScript to move an object. The first is that ActionScript is smaller than animation and the second is that you can move the object from any place to any other other place irrespective of it's starting position. This makes the movement more versatile. In an animation movement must be linear, that is it must follow a pre-defined path. It will go from A to B to C. With ActionScript the object will go any order: A to B or A to C. You may have as many stop position as you want and the flash movie will not get any bigger as it is only a few lines of script.

Tutorial illustrating the many interactive and dynamic scripting abilities of Flash 4 without the use of the Generator.

There are currently 2 versions of Actionscript. Actionscript 1.0 (AS 1.0) is the version that works with Flash MX. Actionscript 2.0 (AS 2.0) is the language that ships with Flash MX2004. Most items in these tutorials will cover both AS 1 and AS 2. Actionscript 1.0 will work with Flash MX2004 but Actionscript 2.0 will not work with Flash MX.

This will show you how to have a Flash movie 'import' and display text from a text file that you create. This can be very useful if you want to update text in a movie, but don't want to edit the .fla file

It's not hard to hack a score post to PHP. If you're posting the data, player = 'Mark' and score = '50' so you can show the top 10 scores on your site, who's to stop someone from changing the posting data from 50 to 10000000000000? One system that I'd recomend as a quick fix is a secret password encrypted with your post. Then, when they check what data is posted they will see a bunch of numbers, that they can't change without your password.

Functions are an essential part of any coding language and thus also in Flash Actionscript. They are very useful too and after you learn to use them you won't ever want to go back to not knowing about em. Functions sound like some StarTrek word that can mean a lot, but it isnt that hard to understand. Functions are like little engines that we can feed some data and the code inside the function will run when we actually trigger that function.