Preloader Testing in Flash can be a headache sometimes, but there is a hidden feature built into the Flash Test Movie window that makes troubleshooting much easier! The Bandwidth Profiler.

1. Open your Flash movie and test your movie to bring up the test movie widow.

2. Open the “View” menu, find “Bandwidth Profiler” and enable it.

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No more easing with Motion Tweens. These 3 lines of code are (in my opinion) the most important for ANY flash user:

This code creates realistic high quality tweens with easing and can be applied to any movie clip in your Flash movie. Using actionscript to animate greatly reduces the file size of your flash movies (which makes your load times much quicker) because it eliminates the need for a timeline to execute the tween. You should get to know these 3 lines of code intimately. If you are a beginner at actionscript, this can look scary at first, but I promise you, it will save you endless hours of work. Download the examples and play with the code. Each example on this page is a single-frame flash movie. Read the rest of this entry »

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