tips

The book includes various tips, some of which are provided here. These are very, very basic. The book is for Flash beginners, after all.

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> Tip 1: Open an HTML pop-up window from within Flash.

> Tip 2: Use a button in Flash to go to (link to) a new Web page.

> Tip 3: Change the colors of the ScrollBar component.

> Tip 4: Get the Flash MX ScrollBar component for Flash MX 2004.

> Tip 5: Put "curly quotes" into your Flash text.

> Tip 6: Make a toggle on/off button for audio.

> Tip 7: Use the Color Mixer to apply gradient fills to shapes.

> Tip 8: Use the MX 2004 Media Playback component to stream video.

> Tip 9: Make an empty movie clip to load external files.

> Tip 10: Make an invisible button.

> Tip 11: Dim a button and make it inactive.

> Tip 12: Fix a NaN error or other errors in ActionScript (1.0 vs. 2.0).

> Tip 13: Create an infinite scrolling background.

> Tip 14: Do you need to care about ActionScript 2.0 (or 3.0)?

> Tip 15: Get a look at some pixel fonts.