Tag: actionscript

In this Quick Tip, you’ll learn how to detect when the user has been inactive for a determined time. Keep reading to find out how!
Step 1: Brief Overview
Step 2: Set Up Your Flash File…

Imagine a chain of particles animating in symphony together: A train moving as all attached compartments follow suit; a puppet dancing as its master pulls its string; even your arms, when your parents hold your hands as they lead you in an evening walk. Movevment ripples down from the last node to the origin, abiding to constraints as it goes. This is inverse kinematics (IK), a mathematical algorithm that calculates necessary motions. Here, we’ll use it to create a snake that’s a little more advanced than the one from Nokia games.

Do you want to keep your SWF exclusive to your site? In this Quick Tip, we’ll look at how to use a site lock to stop people downloading your SWF and embedding…
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An Internet Protocol Address (IP Address), is a unique number assigned to every device connected to the Internet. For different reasons, it can be useful to get the user IP address, like blocking a spammer user in a chat application for example. In this tutorial, I will show you how to get and display the user’s IP address using PHP and ActionScript.

Euclidean vectors are objects in geometry with certain properties that are very useful for developing games. They can be seen as points, but they also…
Euclidean Vectors in Flash
Actionscript
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Learn how to use key codes in ActionScript 3.0 to detect when the user presses a specific key. Final Result Preview Let’s take a look at the final…
Quick Tip: Using AS3 Keycodes

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Google AJAX API with ActionScript 3 to create a nice looking translator application.

During this tutorial I will demonstrate how to make a custom timer which supports counting up or down to a specified amount of time. Final Result

Sometimes you have a set of items – could be Strings, could be Numbers, could be Objects, whatever – whose order you want to randomise. This is..
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Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Activetuts+. This tutorial was first published in May,