Flash Examples at Macloo.com

Simple Animation

Martini
Boats
Bouncing Ball (with sound)
Guide Layer (motion along a path; two examples)

Flash Authoring Notes

Dynamically Loaded Articles: Importing plain text and HTML from external files
Fonts in Flash: Using dynamic, static and input text; small sizes; device fonts and pixel fonts
Loaded Sound and Attached Sound > pop-up window

Miscellaneous

Still photo used as "video" intro (41 KB) > pop-up window
Photo backgrounds
Buttons to control the Timeline
Mask and flying text
More mask effects: A spotlight and a draggable mask
Scrolling text boxes
Simple slide show (230 KB)
Pop-up windows

Flash Replaces Powerpoint

Teaching Journalism, Teaching Technology (August 2002)
Navigation Online

Flash Journalism

Scripting

Flash 8 video (April 2006)
Overcoming the Microsoft IE 6 ActiveX problem for Flash content (April 2006)
Disable buttons | SWF | FLA (12 KB) | Click a button and it disables itself; the rest become enabled (Nov 2003)
Remember what you did: Cookie equivalent > pop-up window (June 2003)
Hide the mouse cursor, drag an object (uses text from an XML file)
Put sound in your movie and control it with Stop/Play buttons
Drag and droptarget > pop-up window / FLA (May 2003)
Drag with a mouse replacer > pop-up window / FLA (May 2003)
System capabilities > pop-up window (May 2003)
Collision test > pop-up window (May 2003)
Math object: Rotation > pop-up window (June 2003)
Date object, dynamic text > pop-up window (May 2003)

My current favorite sites for learning about Flash:

These files document my learning adventure with Flash MX. Except for one movie that I made in August 2002, all of the files here were created since December 2002 in my efforts to master this application. In Spring 2003, I taught Flash for the first time to journalism students in a university course. Two years later, in April 2005, my book Flash Journalism was published by Focal Press.

I created many of these files in the first six months or so of my self-education in Flash. In spring 2003 I took a very good online course at HWG.org -- it was taught by Stephane Richer, and I learned a lot about ActionScript from him!

These files are posted here mainly so that I can refer to them when I remember some ActionScript I wrote once but have since forgotten. I come in here, get the FLA, and copy my old ActionScript. It saves me having to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. I do not add anything new to this page now. It's not really designed for other people to use, but if you find something helpful here, that's great.

Just don't steal anything and claim that you made it yourself, okay? Everything here is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.

For more examples and downloads, see my JToolkit site.

--Mindy McAdams (June 2007)

Simple Animation Martini Boats Bouncing Ball (with sound) Guide Layer (motion along a path; two examples) Flash Authoring Notes Dynamically Loaded Articles: Importing plain text and HTML from external files Fonts in Flash: Using dynamic, static and input text; small sizes; device fonts and pixel fonts Loaded Sound and Attached Sound > pop-up window Miscellaneous Still photo used as "video" intro (41 KB) > pop-up window Photo backgrounds Buttons to control the Timeline Mask and flying text More mask effects: A spotlight and a draggable mask Scrolling text boxes Simple slide show (230 KB) Pop-up windows Flash Replaces Powerpoint Teaching Journalism, Teaching Technology (August 2002) Navigation Online	Flash Journalism The Companion Web Site The Publisher's Page for the Book What Is Flash Journalism? Scripting Flash 8 video (April 2006) Overcoming the Microsoft IE 6 ActiveX problem for Flash content (April 2006) Disable buttons \| SWF \| FLA (12 KB) \| Click a button and it disables itself; the rest become enabled (Nov 2003) Remember what you did: Cookie equivalent > pop-up window (June 2003) Hide the mouse cursor, drag an object (uses text from an XML file) Put sound in your movie and control it with Stop/Play buttons Drag and droptarget > pop-up window / FLA (May 2003) Drag with a mouse replacer > pop-up window / FLA (May 2003) System capabilities > pop-up window (May 2003) Collision test > pop-up window (May 2003) Math object: Rotation > pop-up window (June 2003) Date object, dynamic text > pop-up window (May 2003)
My current favorite sites for learning about Flash: Kirupa.com gotoAndLearn.com
These files document my learning adventure with Flash MX. Except for one movie that I made in August 2002, all of the files here were created since December 2002 in my efforts to master this application. In Spring 2003, I taught Flash for the first time to journalism students in a university course. Two years later, in April 2005, my book Flash Journalism was published by Focal Press. I created many of these files in the first six months or so of my self-education in Flash. In spring 2003 I took a very good online course at HWG.org -- it was taught by Stephane Richer, and I learned a lot about ActionScript from him! These files are posted here mainly so that I can refer to them when I remember some ActionScript I wrote once but have since forgotten. I come in here, get the FLA, and copy my old ActionScript. It saves me having to reinvent the wheel, so to speak. I do not add anything new to this page now. It's not really designed for other people to use, but if you find something helpful here, that's great. Just don't steal anything and claim that you made it yourself, okay? Everything here is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 license. For more examples and downloads, see my JToolkit site.
--Mindy McAdams (June 2007)