Corrupt Movieclip?

Yesterday I faced this problem. When I imported a audio file into a movieclip of a heavy flash file, It imported the audio but it was truncated (the end portion of the audio is missing) I even tried importing the audio into new flash file and drag and drop it in the...

Problem importing sound?

When our flash file becomes big and complex we often face this problem. When we try to import the audio we get “One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them” even when you are sure that the audio format is flash compatible....

Dedicated Project Explorer

It is always better to keep all our current project files under projects folder in properly named sub folders particularly in a collaborative environment. Also you may be keeping your project files in a server. In such cases the following tip really helps! You can...

Reducing the file size of Your FLA file

If your flash project includes sound, import the audio as a MP3 file instead of Wave files (convert your wave files to mp3 in your audio editing software). This not only helps to reduce the file size of your .fla file, also reduces the time taken to publish an swf...

Cloning objects

In ActionScript we cannot pass objects by value. It always passes objects by reference. If you need to create a perfect copy of an object you can make use of the following code. I have modified Flash Guru’s clone with support for Array Objects [UPDATE] included...