Integrating Flash with Microsoft VB.NET Part-1

Introduction:

Graphical User interfaces once used to be a non-important feature of corporate applications, the developers used to emphasize more on logic, efficiency & the time of development of the applications. They didn’t put much effort in creating a better user interface, this approach resulted in ugly looking application interfaces that where created after spending hundreds of hours of hard work and a very large amount of money. But now-a-days, good GUI does matter. For years, desktop applications have had very awkward looking dark blue or gray interfaces. This doesn’t mean that developers don’t want to create good looking applications.  Often the reason is, to create an appealing interface of any application, the developer has to do a lot of programming so that he can create some non-conventional interfaces. Even to create a star like button, a C/C++ developer has to write loads of C++ code to achieve the task.

More drawing in Flash with ActionScript

More drawing in Flash with ActionScript

In the previous article Drawing in Flash with ActionScript, I introduced you to the drawing API in Flash. We looked at how you could create simple shapes like squares, circles and ellipses using ActionScript 1.0. We created an empty movie clip to hold the shapes and used code to change the line style and fills.

The drawing API is more useful if you create functions that you can reuse throughout your Flash movies. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create reusable functions to draw squares, rectangles, triangles, circles and ellipses. We’ll finish by creating new movie clip methods so you can draw shapes over and over again by including an external ActionScript file.

We’ll create functions to draw a:

• Square
• Rectangle
• Diamond
• Triangle
• Circle
• Ellipse

At the end of the tutorial, we’ll convert these to methods of the MovieClip in an ActionScript file.

As with the previous article, I’ve used ActionScript 1.0 for the examples in the tutorial so you’ll need at least Flash MX to complete the exercises here. Again, I’ve assumed that you’ve got some experience in working with ActionScript and that you know how to add code to the Actions panel.

You can download the finished files from the blue Properties box that contains the article PDF. There's a heading titled Code Download and you can click the Details link next to it to get the zip file containing all of the samples.

We’ll start by writing a function to create a perfect square.

Free! - Flash Album Generator the movie

About Flash Album generator
Have you ever had the need to whip up a very fast image gallery? Not only fast but a bit flashy as well? The newest extension released by DMXzone allows you to do both. Flash Album Generator is the type of album that keeps you on the same page--no moving from page to page to see each image.

Everything is all right there. In this tutorial I'll show you how incredibly easy it is to build an album. Then I'll show you how you can jazz it up and make it even cooler.

Watch the Movie now!

This video tutorial is all about our latest extension Flash Album Generator the video is diveded into three parts;

» Part 1: Generating the album This video shows you how to startup your extension and how to create your own photo album (turn on your speakers).» Part 2: Editing your album Joyce shows you how you edit the properties of the photo album using the property inspector of Dreamweaver.

» Part3: Styling your album The final movie shows you how to enhance your photo album using Fireworks.

An Audio/Video messaging application with Flash MX 2004 & Flash Communication Server-Part 2

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• A summary from the previous article
• Sending the E-mail – Working with Flash
• Sending the E-mail – Working with PHP

• Displaying the received message to receiver – Working with Flash
• Displaying the received message to receiver – Working with PHP
• Conclusion

Introduction:

In first episode of this article, we created an application that enables us to record our Audio/Video message using Macromedia Flash Communication server.  In this second and final episode of this two-article series, we will send that recorded message to the receiver, in addition to this; we will also create a flash movie that will display the received message to the receiver.

I have divided the whole process in four main areas:

1)       Send the information of the message, message receiver & message sender, to the server-side language (i.e. PHP in our case).

2)       Write a script in PHP that can receive information from the flash movie & can send a detailed e-mail to the desired person in accordance with the information provided to it.

3)       Create a flash movie that will receive information about the video message from the server-side language & will show that message to the receiver.

4)       Write a PHP script that will be used to display the video message to the mail receiver & this script will also provide some information to the flash movie that is responsible to display the received message.