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Chad Sweely is a staff writer and Flash Designer for FlashNewz.
Articles by Chad Sweely

March 09, 2012How To Create a Chalkboard Using ActionScript

WEB DEVELOPMENT

In this Flash tutorial, I will show you how to create a simple chalk/drawing board using Flash’s programming language of ActionScript. It may sound hard; however, when I figured it out, it wasn’t that hard at all. Step 1: Creating The Flash Document: After you have created a new Flash document in your version of

 
 
 

January 27, 2012Using Free Transforming To Show Perspective in Flash

DESIGN

In this tutorial, I will show you how to display perspective (near to far) using objects in Flash with help of the Free Transform Tool. For a simple example of this, I will be showing you how to make a car from the distance become near. Step 1: Creating The Flash Document: After you have

 
 
 

October 28, 2011How To Make Your Own Cursor Using Flash

WEB DEVELOPMENT

A while back, I posted an article here on DevWebPro explaining that you can change your cursor type using JavaScript and CSS, and in this tutorial, I will show you how you can change your cursor in Flash with a cursor that you can make yourself. In this example/tutorial, I will be using a blue-circled

 
 
 

September 02, 2011Using Visibility in ActionScript

WEB DEVELOPMENT

For this week’s tutorial, I will show you how to make objects that you place on the stage visible and invisible using the visibility properties in ActionScript. As an example of this, I will be using the idea of turning a light switch on and off. To start this tutorial, create a new Flash document

 
 
 

September 02, 2011Using Visibility Properties In ActionScript

DESIGN

For this week’s tutorial, I will show you how to make objects that you place on the stage visible and invisible using the visibility properties in ActionScript. As an example of this, I will be using the idea of turning a light switch on and off. To start this tutorial, create a new Flash document

 
 
 

August 19, 2011Using Movie Clips and ActionScript to Explain Definitions

Instead of attaching a database to your Flash document to show different parts of an image that you will be using, if the data you want to show is minimal, you can use an embedded movie clip symbol to display the information that you want to communicate. I will show you how to do this

 
 
 

August 10, 2011How to Change Your Cursor Using Both CSS and JavaScript

DESIGN

One of the great benefits of web design is that you can change a lot of dynamics on a website, such as: the font (and its size), the background color/image, and other media that other web designers use to make their website artistic and unique. You can also modify the affects of how you (or your website viewers) can interact with the website that you are creating. One way to do this is to change the cursor to different symbols, and in this tutorial, I will show you how to change this using both CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and JavaScript.

 
 
 

July 29, 2011Creating a Welcome Screen Using Tweening

DESIGN

I’m sure that many of us remember a show that was filmed back in the 1970′s called “The Brady Bunch.” With this show, one of the many visuals that come to mind when people think of “The Brady Bunch” is the opening credits where the family is divided into squares. This can easily be created

 
 
 

July 08, 2011ActionScript Tutorial: Using _visible To Create a Functional Traffic Light

DESIGN

In this tutorial, we will be creating a functional traffic light that you can use on your website. This is something interactive that you can use on your website, and can be greatly utilized if your website needs something to direct a call to action. To make the traffic light function, we will be using

 
 
 
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