ARCHIVE August, 2010

Swap Symbols: Dynamically

July 15, 2006

Scrolling through the newest posts on actionscript.org, I found someone looking to create a dancing game where users can swap the characters body parts using the arrows keys on your keyboard. Today I want to show you how you can swap animated symbols without losing their place or starting from frame 1. You can scroll [...]

Playing A Timeline Backwards

July 8, 2006

I wrote the following for someone who wanted his animated menu buttons to do the following; onRollOver, play the current buttons' timeline to the end and onRollOut, no matter where you are on the timeline, play the timeline backwards. With that said, lets take a look at how we can use the onEnterFrame method of [...]