In this Flash tutorial you will learn how to make the cannon on the tank rotate wherever the mouse is pointing and shoot whenever the left mouse button is clicked. Topics covered in this tutorial: mouse angle detection, onMouseDown event, duplicateMovieClip, rotation and actionscript controlled motion.

Flash plugin detection is very easy to implement in Flash 8. Its actually built-in. In this tutorial I will show you how to activate Flash plugin detection for whatever version of Flash that your Flash document requires.

A tutorial on how to pass parameters to a flash movie using query string. A second part about calling flash method is added.

A few examples on calling Flash Methods from javascript. There is also a previous section about passing parameters from javascript to flash. Example flash fla are available for download.

This tutorial shows you how to integrate an exisitng flash form into your own flash movie.

As soundboards become increasingly popular, you can see exactly how to make your own using Flash. This tutorial makes use of tools, buttons, sounds and keyframes. A small amount of Flash knowledge is needed for this tutorial.

Content Manager Flash and PHPcreate an external admin panel to modify content of a Flash movie without the need to edit an .fla file.

This tutorial will teach you 2 ways of making flash file transparent. First in HTML code and second inside Macromedia Flash itself.

Flash Remoting is a way Flash uses in order to talk to servers. This communication need to use ColdFusion, or install server side extensions in .Net or Java based servers. AMFPHP is a new proyect that offers the best of Flash Remoting in a free, open source PHP envinronment. This tutorial is a first step to build your own service trough a versy simple example. Also there's a page dedicated to those running Mac OSX

Learn how to create a Photo slideshow in Flash 8.0 using the in-built Flash Photo Slideshow template.