The other day I was asked to demonstrate how to setup AMFPHP in Flash. As I’ve already done it many times in Flash 8 with little or no problems I felt relaxed about it. The machine I was to demonstrate on only had Flash CS3, no problem I thought and fired up an Actionscript 2 project. The extra components you are required to install in Flash 8 are probably already integrated by now I thought and copy pasted code from an older project, hit ctrl-enter and got a debug window complaining about a lot of missing classes. Apparently you have to copy that stuff from somewhere in the Flash 8 program dir tree and put in the corresponding place in the Flash CS3 dir tree. We didn’t have any Flash 8 installed though…... Read More

Yesterday I had to figure out a way to make an extendable banner in Flash that when extended covers the content. The main idea with the approach I took is to load the shockwave in a div tag that is positioned above the content and have a movieclip in the shockwave for instance move down when the mouse is positioned over it.... Read More

See the prior tutorial on what kind of information the ActionScript in this tutorial needs and how it is generated.... Read More

Update 01/11/2008: There is now a new Flash only version that works properly with version 10 of the player.... Read More

Argh what a horrible morning, fighting with the virus. It all had to do with this shockwave, it would not load properly in IE, not even version 7.... Read More

This resource is provided as is, hopefully it will be useful for some Flash developer. Most probably it will just be a curiosity. The nerd factor is very high.... Read More

Flash Source Movie... Read More

Source code can be found here.... Read More