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Timers are important in all sorts of Flash/Flex applications. Any screen that updates frequently can make use of a timer. Games where elements change on a regular basis can use a timer. Timer objects in Actionscript are relatively easy to program. In this demonstration, Mark will show you how to create a Timer() object, a listener and call back function.

Events are serious business in Actionscript– When the user clicks, double clicks, focuses on an object, right clicks, etc., an event is generated. Dealing with those events is a large part of successful Actionscript programming. In this video, Mark will teach you the basics of events and also take a look at the event object and how you can use it to write more efficient code.

Getting started with Flash Builder (Flex) is easy! Flash Builder (Flex) allows you to build complex web applications using MXML and Actionscript. Due to the impressive and extensive Actionscript API, Flash Builder (Flex) applications can do almost anything. From streaming audio and video applications to games to impressive data visualizations, Flash Builder provides programmers with enormous power.

Actionscript 3 has a convenient, yet powerful, drawing API. It is easy to learn and use and allows you to draw lines, shapes and curves. You may need to do custom charting or drawing for data visualization or perhaps you need to use the drawing API of a video game you are creating.

This tutorial video shows you the Actionscript code necessary to create drawings in Flash, Flash Builder, and Flex. This tutorial discusses drawing lines, curves, controlling shapes and fills and drawing geometric shapes.

In this fifth and final tutorial on creating an Mp3 player with Flash CS5 and Actionscript, we'll add a simple visualizer for the sound. We'll also take a look at buffering sounds as they load with the SoundLoaderContext() class.

In part four of the Mp3 player Actionscript tutorial series we'll create a counter to display how long the song is and a counter to display how long the song has been playing.  We're going to use the Timer() class in order to update the user interface regularly.  We'll also write a function that converts milliseconds to a familiar time format.