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The Flash section is currently under heavy reorganization. In the beginning I started writing separate tutorials for doing separate tasks, but, as the volume of articles increased, I'd now like to give a logic order and reshape the entire section in series. For this reason, the current list is a bit messy.

FIRST STEPS ON FLASH

Adobe Flash Professional

Adobe Flash Builder

Flash Develop

IntelliJ IDEA

   

ACTIONSCRIPT 3.0 BASICS

AS3 - Operators

AS3 - Arrays

AS3 - The garbage collector

AS3 - The rest parameter

FLASH BASICS

Flash - The Document class

Flash - The Stage

Flash - Managing and detecting Focus

Flash - Timers

Flash - User system info

Flash - Sounds

Flash - Dates

Flash - Storing user data

Flash - The Drawing API

Flash - Working with files

Flash - Using the system clipboard

TEXT

Flash - Text

Flash - Setting up a Password Input field

Flash CS5 - Embedding custom fonts

INPUT INTERFACES

Flash - Keyboard Input

Flash - Mouse Input

Flash - Microphone Input

Flash - Camera Input

Flash - Wiimote Input

MOBILE DEVICES

Flash - Accelerometer sensor

Flash - Retrieving Geo location

EXTERNAL DATA

Flash - Loading XML data

Flash - Marshaling and unmarshaling XML data

MATH AND TRIGONOMETRY

Flash - Generating random values

Flash - Sprite point towards the mouse

EVENTS

Flash - The Signals event system

Flash - ADDED_TO_STAGE and REMOVED_FROM_STAGE events

TWEEN ENGINES

Flash - The Tweener library

AI

Flash - Path Finding with A*

PARTICLES

Flash - Particles emitter with Flint Particles

FLASH COMPONENTS

Flash - The Slider component

Flash - The NumericStepper component

Flash - The ColorPicker component

Flash - The List component

Flash - The ComboBox component

Flash - VCAM AS3

NET

Flash - Linking to webpages with navigateToURL

Flash - Loading external images

Flash - PHP-AS3 Communication

Flash - Javascript-AS3 Communication

Flash - Automatic SOAP requests with gofr's AS3 Web Service

FLASH DESIGN

Flash - Shape Tweens

Flash CS6 - Generating Spritesheets and PNG sequences

DEBUG

Flash - Using trace function to debug your code

Flash - Measuring execution time of a snippet of code

Flash - SWF Profiler

EXPORTING AND PUBLISHING

Flash - The right-click Context menu

Flash - Adding a custom Preloader

Flash - Exporting your game as a Flash Projector

Flash CS5 - Embedding SWFobject in your game page

Flash - Setting XMP metadata to your project

UTILITIES

Flash - Printing

Flash - The as3corelib library

THIRD-PARTY LIBRARIES AND APIs

FB Graph API

Kongregate API

Youtube API

Google Maps API

Swiz Framework

 
     

GAME AND GRAPHICS ENGINES

Citrus Engine

as3isolib

Papervision3D

     

REFERENCES

Flash - Flash books round-up