The NextPrev tutorial deals with pagination in Flash, a situation I seem to run into more and more these days. My usual course of action was to serve up the data to a PHP/HTML page and let it deal with paginating the results. But Flash has so much more to offer than the traditional html page, that I decided to recreate the process in Flash, which is a bit ironic in these days of Mr Jobs pushing HTML5 to do everything Flash does, only better. The resulting code was a natural for a Class, or at least it was after I copied and pasted it into a few different projects. This tutorial started out to be of average length, but as I got into it, I realized that there is quite a bit going on in the demo file that really needs to be explained. I am always muttering about the author leaving unexplained the one part I really wanted to know about, so, not wanting to do that, it's a bit longer than usual.  And, if there are things I haven't explained to your personal satisfaction, my inBox is always open!
 

Last weekend I had some spare time for writing an article I got in mind from long time ago, this is about Elastic Collisions, pretty much simple concept but apparently there are some people implementing it in the wrong way (I heard about some crazy exceptions, many bugs and problems people have) and in most of these cases it is because of they are detecting collisions in a wrong workflow. When we speak about elastic collisions we are speaking about the response of it after the collision happens and not when it actually happens (its detection), you must be careful in the way how you detect when the collisions occur, one think is detecting when the collision happens and other completely different is what happen after it.

In this article, you will learn how to make your own reusable classes that will enable you to add custom dropdown menus to your Flash projects. You will be able to make the menu and the buttons any size or color you want, using the font of your choice, just by sending the class the information it needs to construct it for you. Best of all, learning the techniques used to put this together will help increase your skills at making custom classes in general, as you start thinking more in terms of "programming for programmers."

This article demonstrates how to create interactive dashboards in Adobe Flex. We create a weather dashboard from ground-up and include gauges and other data visualization components. The weather data is received from Yahoo! Weather RSS feed.