Simple but effective button transition in AS3

Thought I would show you how to create a simple button animation created totally in actionscript, which recreates a button animation I saw posted on a Cartoon Smart.com tutorial which was originally created on the time line. This method is very simple and easily customizable. The artwork for the button is created in the Flash [...]

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Creating a custom Event really is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Until recently although I knew you could do it, I had never really needed to create a custom event for a class that I had created. So when in a current project I needed to get my class to fire an event that would effect my document class I knew that this would be the [...]

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Creating a clock in Actionscript 3.0 with the Date class.

After seeing a recent application, for some reason recently created and built in AS2!!?? I thought it would be great to create a similar application in AS3 to show how simple, effective and great this would be. As you can see from the code, I have created an instance of theĀ  Date class to ascertain [...]

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