Example:

First Of All
Open SwishMax 4 set your movie properties to
Black Background.
width = 500
Height = 450
Frame Rate = 35.

here is an animated gif of a firework which we will be using in ths tutorial.
save this to your project folder, right click | save as.

once you have saved the firework gif to your hard drive we need …

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Preview:

Step.1
Open Swishmax 3
using the text tool create a dynamic text box name output_txt Var: output
click Insert | Movie Clip to insert a blank movieclip, name it test add the following code
onFrame (2) {
/*
detect if mouse if moving swishscript.
by Craig Lowe
www.loweonline.co.uk & www.swish-designs.co.uk
© craig lowe 2010
*/
curent=_parent.state;
}
group the text box and the test movieclip together as a …

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Radio Example:

Open Swishmax 3
set you movie properties as follows
fps (frames per second) 25
width 264
height 74
export swf 10

Step.1
Click on the components tab | Controls | Lists | Combo_silver.

drag this list box onto your stage over to the left

don’t worry if your list box does not look like mine shown in the image as we need to …

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Example:

this tutorial did not get finished before publishing for some reason i forgot about it, i will finish this next week.

a small tutorial on how to make a character blink using script for a totaly realistic blink, rather than just on a loop.

on the eyes you have created for the blink action, name the movieclip blink and add the following script to the movieclip

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onSelfEvent (enterFrame) {
//blink code by craig lowe www.loweonline.co.uk – www.swish-designs.co.uk
ran=random(35);
if (ran==3 && …

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Creating advanced graphics in swishmax without the expense of other graphic editing software. (swishmax 3 has been used for this tutorial.) you can follow along in 1 and 2 the only difference is in 1 a movie clips is a sprite.
Example:

Note: i will be doing this example using swishmax 2, if you are following along …

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if this small tutorial i will explain how to display a browsers curent url in swishmax.
i am not sure if this is supported across browsers but in firefox it is.
Example:

Step.1
Using the text tool create a dynamic text box to fit the width of your movie, name it output and the var as outputVar

Step.2
Click on scene_1 …

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