This Flash tutorial will teach you all you need to know about displaying a movie that resizes to a  full browser. It’s a simple 5-step tutorial that’s easy to follow and apply.

Here’s the tutorial overview:

* Step 1: Setup
* Step 2: Loading And Playing A Video
* Step 3: Resizing
* Step 4: Running the code
* Step 5: The Final Touch

Start the tutorial and if you have any problems, just leave a comment. Also, be sure to visit Firecode’s portfolio for other great Flash resources you can use.

There are Flash galleries that only allow you to add a limited number of images, by default. If you want to add an unlimited number of pictures to your gallery and load them in Flash, then there are a few simple steps that will help you do that.

This tutorial will teach you how to load unlimited images using Actionscript 3 and a XML file. The source code is included, so all you have to do is copy&paste a few lines of code and you’re done. Start the tutorial here and let me know if you have any problems.

For other step-by-step Flash tutorials, be sure to visit Firecode’s portfolio.

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If you like using cool effects in your projects, then this Flash tutorial will help you learn how you can create a magnifying glass effect in ActionScript 3.0.

It’s an easy two-steps tutorial that shouldn’t take you more than 15 minuted to complete. Download the source code and start creating the effect.

Don’t forget to visit Firecode’s portfolio for other excellent tutorials and Flash components.

This awesome component made by FWDesign might come in handy for those of you who are looking for a free Flash photo gallery with scrollable thumbs.

The cool thing about this gallery is that no Flash knowledge is required for setting it up, since it’s XML driven. Another great feature is that the images will adjust according to the screen resolution.

Use this download link to get the file. Source Code Included!

A useful flash tutorial for beginners where FireCode will show you how to deal with large amounts of text by creating a scrolling text box with a custom scroll bar. You can find the tutorial and the source files here.

You will learn 2 methods of scrolling a text:

• using the scrollV propriety of the text fields
• masking the text field

Time to complete: 15 minutes!

If you are just starting out with Flash, FireCode has published a step by step Flash tutorial where he explains exactly how to incorporate HTML and CSS in Actionscript 3.0. You can find the tutorial and the source files here.

Although it`s a very easy to follow tutorial, you need to familiarize yourself with AS3 Event Handling and Loaders because data will be loaded from external sources.

During this tutorial you will learn:

- how using HTML and CSS inside our flash applications can sometimes simplify our work, especially when we are using a large amount of text fields, each one with it’s own formatting.
- how to load external text

To make things even easier, FireCode has also included the source code for you to use in this tutorial.  Head on over to the tutorial section of the website to start.

Time to complete: 20 minutes.

With over 6,000 downloads, this AS3 image scroller has got it going on. Use this download link to get the file and use it in your project. If you like it and want more where that came from, head on over to FWDesign’s profile and check out his huge collection of creative files.

Flash websites are becoming easier to embed, navigate and handle by the minute. One great feature that you can use to present your business to clients is deep linking. This allows you to get a unique link for every section of the template, which is dynamically generated based on the section name.

How is this useful? Well, if you want to send a client the link for a specific image, you can do that just like with a regular HTML site.  To see how it works, here are three awesome Flash templates developed by FWDesign that you can use if you are passionate about your business and want it to grown, but don’t have the technical programmer skills to do it yourself.

Flash Template Web Deep Linking

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FlashXpert has released a free version of his awesome Flash video players series. This one is fully functional and you can try out the video player and its features before going for the commercial version that also includes the source files.

Click here to download the player and be sure to visit FlashXpert’s portfolio for the complete list of features that his excellent video players include.

In this tutorial we will use XML , URLLoader, URLRequest, Loader, Timer,  Events classes to develop the xml driven banner in AS3.  This is an easy-to-develop type of banner that you can use to showcase your products and services.

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