Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – James Software Development Corner

Adobe Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – How to pass a variable from one flash application to another

Let’s say that I initially passed a parameter called ‘Testee’ to my preloader flash application via the HTML param tag. Now I need to pass this same parameter value from the preloader to the main flash application. Here is the … Read the rest

ASP.Net – How to pass the user.identity.name from your ASP.Net application as a parameter via the client side of your aspx page to a flash program

Say you want to restrict access to your flash application that is called by your aspx page. That is easy enough by adding the aspx page to your your web.config file’s location/authorization section. But what if you want to pass … Read the rest

Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – Flash (AS3) / ASHX (ASP.Net) / SQL Server – Post

This article explains in the most simpliest terms how to use action script to connect to SQL Server via an ashx file in order to post data from your flash application.

First, you build a flash game that keeps track … Read the rest

Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – Flash (AS3) / ASHX (ASP.Net) / SQL Server – Get

This article explains in the most simpliest terms how to use action script to connect to SQL Server via an ashx (ASP.Net) file in order to extract data for display in your flash application.

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Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – Flash (AS3) / PHP / MySQL – Post

This article explains in the most simpliest terms how to use action script to connect to MySQL via a php file in order to post data from your flash application.

First, you build a flash game that keeps track of … Read the rest

Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – Flash (AS3) / PHP / MySQL – Get

This article explains in the most simpliest terms how to use action script to connect to MySQL via a php file in order to extract data for display in your flash application.

First, you build a flash game that keeps … Read the rest

Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – How to save local data to a Flash Shared Object (Flash Cookie)

Create a shared object (Flash Cookie) in Flash to save data for later retrieval. These shared objects are saved with a SOL file extension.

Here are two ways you can find them.

Run the ‘Analyze’ feature of ‘CCleaner’ (You … Read the rest

Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – Giving keyboard focus to an embedded Flash movie

Add to the beginning of the <body> tag, the onload event handler for your flash object. When the page is produced in the browser, the focus should now be on the flash object.

<body onload="window.document.someflashfile.focus();">
        <div id="flashContent">
            <object

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Adobe Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – Registration Point vs. Transformation Point

Flash defines two different types of points for every symbol. Both points are used for reference by Flash, but in different ways.

Transformation point is a tiny circle displayed on the symbol. This point is used when transforming the symbol.

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Adobe Flash CS5.5 and AS3 – How to center flash games in the center of the browser

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" 
content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1?>
  <title>Test
  <style type="text/css">

html {
  height:100%; /* fix height to 100% for IE */
  max-height: 100%; /* fix height for other browsers */
  padding: 0; /*remove padding */

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