This tutorial will teach you how to create a very simple preloader for your Flash movies using ActionScript 3.0.

Learn how to use SWFObject to embed Flash content into HTML pages.

XML can be used to load external data in Flash to provide an easy method for structuring content so that it is easy to understand, process, and update. This tutorial will teach you the basics on how to create a Flash-friendly XML file and how to load and process this XML file in Flash using the ActionScript XML object. You are assumed to have intermediate knowledge of ActionScript in order to follow this tutorial.

Creating new instances of a class has been greatly simplified in ActionScript 3.0. In previous versions of ActionScript, you needed to call createEmptyMovieClip() or createTextField() if you wanted to create a new MovieClip or TextField. Now, in ActionScript 3.0, you can simply call new MovieClip() or new TextField() directly, as shown in the following web.

I am going to show you how to customize the right-click menu in ActionScript 3 as I have done in my photo gallery. AS3 already provides you with a class that controls the menu: ContextMenu, and classes that handle the properties and events: ContextMenuItem and ContextMenuEvent. It gives you everything you need and nothing you don´t. It´s pretty straight-forward.