User manual MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH SAMPLES

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[. . . ] On the Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Applications/ Macromedia Flash 8/Samples and Tutorials/Samples/ActionScript/ CustomizingContextMenu. Filters with ActionScript This sample shows how to apply filter effects to images with ActionScript. You can apply different filters to several images, and then manipulate their properties at runtime. The ActionScript code shows how to apply filters and manipulate the filter properties using components. You can find the sample source file, Filters. fla, in the Samples folder on your hard disk. In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Samples\ActionScript\Filters. On the Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Applications/ Macromedia Flash 8/Samples and Tutorials/Samples/ActionScript/ Filters. 24 ActionScript Animation with ActionScript This sample provides an example of programmatic animation using ActionScript. It shows a simple game where instances are animated across the Stage at runtime. You create a custom mouse pointer, and you can tally scores by manipulating strings and using operators to write equations. You can find the sample source file, animation. fla, in the Samples folder on your hard disk. In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Samples\ActionScript\Animation. On the Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Applications/ Macromedia Flash 8/Samples and Tutorials/Samples/ActionScript/ Animation. The Tween class, the TransitionManager class, and progress bars This sample shows how to script animation using the Tween and TransitionManager classes, which provide an easy way to animate instances using code. You can find the sample source file, tweenProgress. fla, in the Samples folder on your hard disk. In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Samples\ActionScript\Tween ProgressBar. On the Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Applications/ Macromedia Flash 8/Samples and Tutorials/Samples/ActionScript/ Tween ProgressBar. The Tween class, the TransitionManager class, and progress bars 25 ActionScript data types This sample provides an example of converting data from one type to another. You can find the sample source file, datatypes. fla, in the Samples folder on your hard disk. In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Samples\ActionScript\DataTypes. On the Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Applications/ Macromedia Flash 8/Samples and Tutorials/Samples/ActionScript/ DataTypes. Bitmap caching with ActionScript This sample demonstrates the benefit of using bitmap caching when you animate complex vector shapes. Click the button on the Stage to see the vast improvement cacheAsBitmap has on the animating movie clips. You can find the sample source file, cacheBitmap. fla, in the Samples folder on your hard disk. In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Samples\ActionScript\CacheBitmap. On the Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Applications/ Macromedia Flash 8/Samples and Tutorials/Samples/ActionScript/ CacheBitmap. 26 ActionScript Drawing with ActionScript This sample demonstrates how to draw lines and create, fill, sort, and remove shapes with ActionScript. You can find the sample source file, drawingapi. fla, in the Samples folder on your hard disk. In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Samples\ActionScript\DrawingAPI. On the Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Applications/ Macromedia Flash 8/Samples and Tutorials/Samples/ActionScript/ DrawingAPI. ActionScript arrays example This sample illustrates array manipulation using ActionScript. The code in the sample creates an array and sorts, adds, and removes items of two List components. You can find the sample source file, array. fla, in the Samples folder on your hard disk. In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Samples\ActionScript\Arrays. On the Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Applications/ Macromedia Flash 8/Samples and Tutorials/Samples/ActionScript/ Arrays. ActionScript arrays example 27 Interaction between the browser and Flash Player This sample demonstrates how to use the External API (ExternalInterface class) to create interaction between the browser and your SWF file. In this sample, HTML form controls on a web page let you manipulate and display information about an FLV video that plays in a SWF file. [. . . ] For more information about how this sample was constructed, see "Text field example application" in Developing Flash Lite Applications. You can find the sample source file, input_text_example. fla, in the Samples folder on your hard disk. In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and Tutorials\Samples\FlashLite. On the Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Applications/ Macromedia Flash 8/Samples and Tutorials/Samples/FlashLite. 44 Flash Lite Movie clip menu sample This sample demonstrates how to create a simple menu out of movie clips. For more information about how this sample was constructed, see "Creating a simple menu using movie clips" in Developing Flash Lite Applications. [. . . ]