I’m starting to get the look & feel for my intro sequence for To Kill A Mockingbird. Still not quite sure about the typography, but I am probably going to go with a classic serif, possibly Baskerville. This is a still frame from the first scene; calm, slow paced, falling leaves, and birds somehow interacting [...]

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As you might be able to tell–I’m still at the very basics of Flash. I’m doing a 60 second title sequence for a fictitious remake of To Kill a Mockingbird, and these spastic bird shaped things will hopefully be part of it. The flapping of the wings is a simple two-frame movie clip in the [...]

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This project demonstrates timeline navigation, key stroke detection, a basic URLRequest, context menu modification, and how to make an object annoyingly trail the mouse cursor. The code follows after the jump.

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An EventListener listen for clicks for each of the four buttons, executing the corresponding function, which manipulates the X or Y value by 10. Is there a more efficient way to do this? btn_left.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, nudge_left); btn_right.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, nudge_right); btn_up.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, nudge_up); btn_down.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, nudge_down); function nudge_left(e:MouseEvent):void{ black_circle.x -= 10; } function nudge_right(e:MouseEvent):void{ black_circle.x += 10; } function nudge_up(e:MouseEvent):void{ [...]

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The EventListener listens for every time Flash enters a new frame, and executes the function fly, which manipulates the X values of three objects on the stage.

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