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10 Minutes with Flash: ActionScript You'll Never Have to Write Again Feb 6, 2004 Robert Hoekman, Jr. is just as tired of writing code as you are, so he offers up some timely tips on storing ActionScript and loading it on-the-fly in this fourth installment of "10 Minutes with Flash."

10 Minutes with Flash: Bitmap Video Effects Dec 5, 2003 In the first of a bi-weekly series of articles called "10 Minutes with Flash," Robert Hoekman, Jr. demonstrates how to make reality pretty again with faux video effects using simple bitmaps.

10 Minutes with Flash: Collision Detection for Flash Games Mar 26, 2004 Spend 10 minutes with Robert Hoekman, Jr. to learn how to create collision detection for a Flash game.

10 Minutes with Flash: Creating a Custom Panel Jul 23, 2004 In only 10 minutes, Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how to create a custom panel that pulls up Flash tutorials faster than you can say "Resources."

10 Minutes with Flash: Creating a Loader Component for Flash Player 7 Jun 25, 2004 Don't like writing the same script more than once? In just 10 minutes, Robert Hoekman, Jr. will show you how to turn a pre-loader script into a reusable component.

10 Minutes with Flash: Custom, Portable Color Palettes Apr 9, 2004 Want to get rid of that pesky Web 216-color palette that Flash uses by default? Spend 10 minutes with Robert Hoekman, Jr. to learn how to replace it with your own custom color palette that can be reused in other projects.

10 Minutes with Flash: Graphics Tablets and Flash MX 2004 Apr 23, 2004 Step away from that mouse right now! In 10 minutes, Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how to make the best use of your graphics tablet while working with Flash.

10 Minutes with Flash: Quick Tricks May 28, 2004

10 Minutes with Flash: Quick Tricks, Part 2 Jun 11, 2004 Didn't get enough tips and tricks in the last "10 Minutes with Flash" article? Fret not. Robert Hoekman, Jr. has a few other tricks in his arsenal, and each can help you work more efficiently and make you a happier Flash geek.

10 Minutes with Flash: Repeating History through Commands Dec 23, 2003 Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how reliving the past with History and Commands can help you automate your life.

10 Minutes with Flash: Streaming Video with Flash MX 2004 Professional May 13, 2004 Robert Hoekman shows you how to use the media display component included within Flash MX 2004 Professional. This component allows you to enable your video to play external Flash Video (FLV) files without having to do any Actionscript coding. Using this component, the external videos will actually stream to your users.

10 Minutes with Flash: SWF-to-SWF Communication Dec 17, 2004 In the world of complicated web applications, there's often a need to communicate between multiple SWF files and to transfer data from one to another. In only 10 minutes, Robert Hoekman, Jr. gets you headed in the right direction with SWF-to-SWF communication.

10 Minutes with Flash: The World According to Shared Libraries Jan 9, 2004 In 10 minutes or less, Robert Hoekman, Jr. can show you how to share assets between movies during development or on the fly.

10 Minutes with Flash: Using LoadVars to Send Form Data Mar 12, 2004 In the latest installment of his 10 Minutes with Flash series, Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how to package up form data and send it to the server.

10 Minutes with Flash: Writing Custom Behaviors Jul 9, 2004 Don't you wish Flash MX 2004 came with more built-in behaviors? In only 10 minutes or less, Robert Hoekman, Jr. helps you create your own behaviors and save yourself lots of grief.

8 Tasks in Flash MX Jul 26, 2002 David Emberton walks you through eight common tasks in Flash MX that demonstrate some of the biggest reasons why you should upgrade to the new version.

A Beginner's Look At ActionScript Dec 9, 2005 ActionScript 2.0 offers new features unavailable in the previous version. This chapter explains what ActionScript is, and how 2.0 allows for greater customization of behaviors and scripts for Macromedia Flash animations.

A Critical Look at Flash MX Jun 14, 2002 Venture beyond regular software reviews and get some practical advice on what Flash MX has to offer you. David Emberton cuts through the "marketese" to discover the real Flash 6.0.

ActionScript 2.0: A Real Programming Language Dec 19, 2003 Matthew David illustrates how ActionScript 2.0, the new name for the new version of ActionScript, improves significantly over its predecessor.

ActionScript 3.0 and Math Aug 10, 2011 In this chapter, you'll learn all the basic arithmetic operators that you'll use in ActionScript. Also, there are some convenient shortcuts to make working with math easier that you'll cover as well.

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