Flash Otaku Blog

This post is Part 2 of the Flash Components Mashups series. In this tutorial I will make the application a little more interactive.  I'll let the "Auto Slideshow" feature activated, but this time I want to be able to jump to different slide when I click on a thumbnail. For this example I will use the StackFlow and the Slideshow components. Click on the bellow image to see… Continue reading

Today I'll begin a series of posts about how you can integrate two or more components together in order to create more complex and interesting flash applications. As you will see, this is very easy to achieve. I'll start with a very basic example in which I will create an image gallery (slideshow + thumbnails). For this example I need to use the Slideshow component and the Thumbnail Scroller

Any of the flash components available at FlashOtaku.com gives you the possibility to create a custom preloader or a temporary clip, to be more precise. The temporary clip will act as a re-placer for the content of the item until the content is completely loaded. By default, a simple temporary clip is created for you with a specified color and transparency and there are also 5 built-in preloaders from… Continue reading

As promised in the previous tutorial, in this tutorial I will show you how to add a tooltip to one of the FlashOtaku components. I will use the StackFlow component as an example but it is applicable to the other flash components as well. Here's how the final result will look like: First we need an XML file that will contain the source and the title of each item… Continue reading

In a previous tutorial, I've described how you can open an URL when a thumbnail is clicked. It was not difficult to do but you would need to parse the XML file again and create some Array instances to store the additional data. With the new components, however, this becomes much easier to do. In this tutorial I will use the Carousel component, but it's the same for each… Continue reading

Lately there were some questions about the possibility of adding new elements to the XML file when working with the Slideshow or Thumbnail Scroller components. The answer is yes, you just need to parse the XML file again. Two weeks ago I made a tutorial on how you can add new elements to the Thumbnail Scroller component. It's pretty easy to do it, once you know how to work with XML in AS3. Continue reading

This time I will show you how you can add an auto slideshow feature to the Slideshow component, using the Timer class. It's pretty easy to do this, if you know how to use the Timer class, so I will just show you the code without explaining each step, but if you have any specific question, fell free to ask. Also make sure to read the documentation for the Slideshow component. Continue reading

Adding this feature to the Thumbnail Scroller Component is pretty easy but requires some knowledge on working with XML. In this tutorial I will show you how to do this using Actionscript 3. Continue reading

In this tutorial I will create another image gallery. This time I will show you how you can create image galleries using only code. This gives you more flexibility when you use these components in your projects. Continue reading

In this tutorial you will see how easy it is to add a roll over effect to the ThumbnailScroller Component. For this example I will add a blur effect using the Tweener class. Continue reading