Welcome to The Flash Connection! Do you have an eye for design, but also believe that it shouldn't necessarily take a rocket scientist to write a few scripts for Flash and make it do some "cool stuff?" Me too! This site is devoted to creating tutorials to help beginning to intermediate Flash designers and developers find their creative foothold.

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Better Flash Navigation using AS3 Classes

Thu, 01/14/2010 - 9:34am — Jody Hall

In this article, you will learn a much better, more object oriented way to structure a Flash application than the typical "frames on the main timeline" scheme that you see so often everywhere. This better way might be summed up in a few words as "MovieClips as screens." This is so far superior to "Frames as screens," that I think you will be as amazed as I was, when I line out for you exactly why. Read on!

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Variables

Mon, 12/21/2009 - 8:46pm — Jody Hall

This article on variables may be somewhat different than the kind you are accustomed to seeing. Rather than focus on what is an int, what is a Number, what is a String (and so on...), I instead choose to focus on certain aspects of variables that I consider more "off the beaten path." Also, I want to stay Flash-centric and not just about programming in general. In other words, stuff that you don't see elsewhere!