I have finally finished up my first full Flash Template Website for sale on Activeden, and its called Origins XML Website – Flash and Mobile Website Template and its a Flash XML Website that also comes with a mobile version of the template. All you have to do is update one set of xml files and it completely generates a mobile version of the Flash website for you. Origins is the accumulation of all my best selling files remastered into one website with added functionality and features. This file was 6 months in the making and its really exciting to finally get it live.

Origins Flash Website is deep-linking for added SEO (allowing the user to go to particular pages by direct links), fully XML driven, and modularly built. Create as many pages as you want, and reuse as many modules as you need. From the main logo and footer text, to the main navigation icons, everything can be changed by simply editing the XML settings files, so no Flash knowledge is needed.

The mobile site uses php to gather its content so the preview is hosted on my site, view the Origins Mobile Website Now!

Features

• Fully Generated Mobile Website
• Fully XML Driven
• SWFAddress Deep Linking Menu (Added SEO )
• 9 Page Modules (see examples and images below)
• Simple Page Module
• RocFolio 1 Page Module
• RocFolio 2 Page Module
• jQuery: PrettyPhoto LightBox Page Module (show images or movies, including YouTube, Vimeo, and QuickTime )
• Piecemaker 2 Page Module
• News Feed Ticker Page Module
• Contact Form Page Module
• Simple Link Module
• Loading Swf Page Module
• Full Music Player
• Page Specific Backgrounds Images
• Autostart Page Feature
• Social Links Menu
• PSD File of 48 Icons Ready for Use
• PSD Website Template File
• Detailed help file for installation and customization

Mobile Version Website

At the present time, Flash doesn’t run well on most hand-held devices. Heck, some devices don’t run it at all! To circumnavigate this, I decided to create a mobile version to accompany the Flash Website. It’s completely mobile-friendly and is created from all of the same XML config files used to create the Flash Site. This means there’s no need to update a ton of other files to create the site; Edit only one set of XML files to update both the Flash and Mobile versions of your site! The mobile website uses jQTouch which is a jQuery plugin for mobile web development on the iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, and other forward-thinking devices. View the Demo Here

Customizable Header Area

In the header section you can easily add your own logo image, and you can either display, hide, or just deactivate the music player altogether. All this is controlled through the XML config files.

Customizable Menu Area

In the menu section, you can easily add and remove as many menu items as you need. You can change the icon, text, text color, and text padding. Then easily assign each menu item to a particular module.

Customizable Footer Area

In the footer section you can easily add your own footer text, and include all of your own social media links with the associated icon.

Simple Page Module

The Simple Page Module is exactly that, a simple Page. You can change the image of the page we well as any text in the scrollable HTML text area. The text area supports changes in text size, color, hyper-links and images all formatted through HTML documentation.

About Page Module

The About Page Module is based off one of my best selling files called RocFolio. This module is perfect for an about page, staff page, or for anyone wanting to display their latest featured work. You can either populate the slides with a RSS feed (or any feed type), or use the sample XML file that’s included. If you use a feed, the content automatically updates when a post is made to that feed.

Portfolio Page Module

The Portfolio Page Module is based off my second version of RocFolio. This module is perfect for a portfolio page, feature page, services page, or products page. Similar to the About Page Module, you can either populate the slides with an RSS feed (or any feed type), or use the sample XML file that’s included. If you use a feed, the content automatically updates when a post is made to that feed. Also, this page module comes with three columns of editable text.

Piecemaker 2 Page Module

The Piecemaker 2 Page Module is built off the Piecemaker 2, a free 3D Flash image rotator gallery. This module is perfect for displaying any type of content including images, swf files, and videos. The Piecemaker 2 includes several new features including improved navigation, tooltips, animated shadows, and unlimited effects. The piecemaker module does not work with the cs3 version of the FLA .

Photos Page Module

The Photos Page Module uses the popular jquery lightbox clone called prettyPhoto. This module is perfect for an image gallery or slideshow. Each image gives you the option for an description field as well.

Videos Page Module

The Videos Page Module uses prettyPhoto just like the photos page module. But for this page module, you can add as many youtube, vimeo, or .MOV video files as you want. Each video gives you the option for a description field as well.

News Feed Page Module

The News Feed Page Module is another one of my best selling files called Flash News Feed Ticker and its compatible with all feed types (RSS and ATOM , directions included on how to handle these feed types). This module automatically grabs the first image in each feed post to display, and updates automatically. If you don’t want to use a feed then you can use the news feed sample XML file. You can easily change the colors, size and several other options all through the XML configuration file.

Link Module

The Link Module allows you to make the navigational item a link to anywhere you like.

Contact Page Module

The Contact Page Module allows you to setup a contact page with email validation already included. There are also two HTML text areas included on this module that are editable.

Music Player

The Musicplayer can be easily customized through an XML configuration file and you can change the colors and add as many songs as you like. The music player shows the song name, the artist name, the album name, and supports album art.

Yesterday, I finished developing another website called The Dreamy Spoon. The Dreamy Spoon is a Self Served Frozen Desserts Store located in Maumelle , Arkansas and it a full flash website that also has a wordpress blog with it. This has to be one the most fun websites I have done in a while, partly because of the silliness of the design (which was done by Cody Scott of  Kinetic Media Solutions ). Some of the special things about the website are they it uses SWFAddress to increase SEO and add the ability to go straight to a specific page, as well as a custom MP3 music player, and all the animations were pretty cool too. The website includes everything from a flavors page, a contact page, and links to the social media websites.

One of the hardest things to code for the website was getting the stage to resize correctly when the user resizes the browser window, because the grassy hills had to stay at the bottom and the cloud background had to scale correctly.

To increase SEO, I created the The Dreamy Spoon Blog (made from WordPress) that the owner could add news posts and I also duplicated the flash pages  into wordpress pages and basically hide them from the user (meaning no actual links to them), but when I submit a sitemap to Google Web Mastertools I will include those links so they get indexed.

This might be the best flash website I have done so far and it was a lot of fun to work on, let me know what you guys think.

Cya

I have just finished working on another file for sale on ActiveDen and its a Flash News Feed Ticker. This is the second version of my News Feed Ticker, and the biggest difference is that I implemented an XML file to style it and for customization reasons, and it has a lot of improvements including:

• It’s compatible with all feed types (RSS and ATOM )
• This ticker automatically grabs the first image in each feed post to display
• It updates automatically
• It is completely customizable through an XML file so there is no need to even open up Flash to edit it
• Completely re-sizable so that it fits to any size container
• Easy to change the number of posts you want displayed

This news feed ticker, or reader as some people call them, includes three different skins or themes: a dark, a light, and a social media skin. Also if you want to customize the look and feel of it, you can do this very easily by editing the colors in the XML settings file or by editing the symbols in the Flash file’s library. Also there is an in-depth help file included.

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As you may know, I have completed quite a few projects and written several posts regarding the integration of Flash and WordPress. In fact, my latest project was a complete Flash and WordPress Website called RocFolio 2.

A few weeks ago I was excited to be contacted by Packt Publishing. They asked me to review one of their books, “WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook”. I was honored that they contacted me and excited for the opportunity to read through their book and see what I could learn. Here is the book information followed by my review.

Book Information

Full Title: WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook
Author(s): Peter Spannagle, Sarah Soward
Pages: 268
Published: April 2010
Publisher: Packt Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-847198-82-2

My Review

The book as a whole is written well and includes over 50 simple and effective techniques on how to control certain tasks relating to Flash content in WordPress. The easy-to-follow step by step instructions, and pictures to help out those of us who are more visual, that accompany the techniques make integrating Flash and WordPress a fairly straightforward process.

This book is aimed at new or intermediate WordPress users who are interested in learning how to create the unique and media-rich sites that using plug-ins and Flash can provide, so much of the book’s content I was already fairly familiar with.  But for the newer user looking to enhance their personal or business sites and blogs, this book definitely contains strategies and techniques to help you do just that. Just remember that a working knowledge of XHTML, CSS, and graphic design is helpful and familiarity with WordPress is required, because the book does not address the basic mechanics of using WordPress itself. Also, any previous experience with Flash is helpful but not necessary.

Honestly, the Cookbook focused more on how to add, edit, and embed Flash into WordPress than an actual integration of the two, which is what I had originally thought it was going to be about. It also mentions several really nice WordPress plug-ins, some of which were strictly for helping you add and control Flash on your WordPress site, while others mentioned are to help you with SEO, Google Sitemaps, and optimizing your WordPress site as a whole. The Cookbook also delves into some Actionscript 3.0 scripting which is followed by examples paired with actual code. Here are links to some of the plug-ins the book mentions that I found to be particularly helpful tools in building a WordPress site:

Kimili Flash Embed Plugin
Dean’s FKCEditor  Plugin
Google Sitemaps XML Plugin
SEO Title Tags Plugin
FLV Embed Plugin

If you don’t know how to use these plug-ins, or have an overall desire to learn more about Flash content within WordPress, the WordPress and Flash 10x Cookbook definitely explains in detail the best way to do so. Overall, this book is a great reference and would be a helpful addition to your desk or workspace, especially if you’re a new or intermediate designer/developer. Hey, even if you’re an advanced user it could still come in handy, teaching you something you might have missed along the way as you taught yourself… we all have something to learn. Right?

Cya

I have just finished my second website template, it’s a Flash WordPress Template called RocFolio 2.  This Flash WordPress Template is perfect as a portfolio or if you want to display your latest featured work in a great way. If you use wordpress, then it automatically updates itself by getting the information from your wordpress site after you make new posts. If you don’t have a wordpress blog, a sample XML file is included that you can use. This template is very easy to use, easy to setup, and easy to customize all through XML . RocFolio 2 comes with a help file and 5 different themes. The different flash themes include a Dark, Light, Bokeh, Starfield, and Two-Tone version, or you can customize the look and feel of it very easily. Also, each templates include  a contact form with error checking, and a muic player with tons of features. This Flash WordPress Template includes navigation for going between multiple Feeds (or multiple sample xml files) or external links, and another navigational menu  that can be used as social media menu that has a special random letter hover effect. Like I have said before, if you use wordpress then it automically updates itself through the RSS feed of the site, and then it automatically grabs the first image in the post to display. This template can be customizable through 4 simple XML files, uses tweener for smooth transitions, and has a 3 column layout layout with headers that have the ability to add an image, use text, or both. There are tons of other features and options, and I hope you enjoy it.

RocFolio 2 is the second version of one of my best selling items on ActiveDen.net.  First first version, RocFolio, is more geared towards being a Flash and WordPress Portfolio Template, because it can only take in a single RSS Feed, unlike RocFolio 2 where you can go between multiple rss feeds or wordpress categories.  Below is a preview image of RocFolio. It its not fully customizable by XML like RocFolio 2 is but its still really easy to use and setup through  Flash.

Cya

So to load your XML you have to create your load and request variables and then you should create a few event listeners for progress and complete events, like this:

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var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var requestURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(xmlfilename.xml);
 
//create progress and complete event listeners for the loader, and load the urlrequest
loader.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, getBytesLoop);
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadXML);

Now in your loadXML function all you have to do is figure out where the xml file actually ends, and then index that spot and then cut the rest of the string out with the substring() command. Here is how you do that.

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//function loadxml loads the xml and handles assigning to places
function loadXML(e:Event):void {
 
	var dataString:String = e.target.data;
	var finalString:String = "";
	var endofString:uint;
 
        //find out where the end of the xml file is, however your set it up it should be the last closing tag, this one is </settings>
	endofString = dataString.indexOf("</settings>", 0);
 
	//cut out the good part of the xml using substring, then use 0 as your starting point to where you got your endOfString
        //make sure to add whatever amount you need to be at the end of the your last closing tag, </settings> has 11 characters in it so +11
	finalString = dataString.substring(0, endofString+11);
 
	//then assign the finalstring to your XML variable
	try {
		var theXML:XML = new XML(finalString);
	} catch (e:TypeError) {
		//loader.load(requestURL);
		trace("A TypeError has occurred : \r\t" + e);
	}
 
//then go on with setting up your XMLLists so you can access the data how you want
}

So hopefully this helps those out there that are getting weird parsing errors when trying to load multiple XML files. I know I tried finding the solution out on the web and couldn’t so that’s why I wrote this, if it helps you out please leave a comment.

Cya

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I have another file for sale on ActiveDen, its called Mini RocPod – XML Flash Music MP3 Player. Some of the special features of this flash mp3 player is that it is fully XML driven, it streams the mp3s, you can add unlimited amount of songs, it has auto start feature, you can auto hide the panels on start up or show them on start up, it can be easily added to actionscript3 files by just dragging and dropping. you can easily change the color of the music player through the xml, it displays album art, and it has 7 different background skins or art to choose from.  I used a lot of the same functionality as my first flash music player I creatd,  the RocPod – Flash and XML MP3 Player, but I wanted something that was a little more standard so I took out the circular scroll wheel volume controller and the ipod style menu. I still wanted to mix it up a bit so I added 7 different background arts and the hide-able panels  and appropriate settings in the xml for them. In the end I was really happy with the design.

Cya

I was looking around on the internet and come across the PureMVC website and was pretty impressed. PureMVC is a lightweight framework for creating applications based upon the classic Model, View and Controller concept. This concept is an architectural pattern used in coding that isolates the application logic for the user from the GUI, allowing development to come from different places “permitting independent development, testing and maintenance of each”.  PureMVC is open source and was originally implemented in the ActionScript 3 language for use with Adobe Flex, Flash and AIR, is now being ported to all major development platforms. I have taken a very quick look at it but it seems very cool. An example of this in use is the T-mobile website, which has a very cool flash GUI on the front page, take a look and see what I mean. The picture above is taken from the PureMVC website.

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• Fully Customizable by XML
• Easily change the width and height, and a special javascript function handles the resizing in the browser
• No need to even open the flash file
• 3 Different direction types to choose from
• Easily change the scrolling speed, delay time, and duration
• Easily change the font size, font color, font type, and link color
• Handles most html tags for even easier customization
• Add as many items as you want (Displaying one at a time)

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I have added another item to my ActiveDen Portfolio, it is a Mechanical Futuristic Preloader. It is really easy to use, just drag and drop the movieclip into your flash file. A version for both AS2 and AS3 are  included, and there is a special variable that allows the user to display it for a certain amount of time before loading the content. Also it allows the user to control how many times the parts of the movieclip to rotate. If it doesn’t look very smooth its because my flash file in the header of the page is a memory hog, you can  go to the activeDen page to see it run as it should.

Cya

I have recently created a Flash template that is integrated with the WordPress backend. Click the image above to be redirected to the preview and see the flash file in action. I have added it to my activeDen Portfolio for sale. This Portfolio Template is perfect for anyone wanting to display their latest featured work. It automatically updates itself by getting the information from your wordpress RSS Feed (You can even link it to a particular Category).

I have talked about WordPress Flash Integration before in several tutorials showing you how to do it, here are links to those:
Update: WordPress and Flash Integration part I (AS2)
Update: WordPress and Flash Integration part II (AS3)
Update: WordPress and Flash Integration part III (AS3)

If you don’t have a wordpress blog, a sample XML file is included that you can use. This template is very easy to use, easy to setup, and easy to customize. Here are some of its’ features:

• Includes 3 Skins: Dark, Light, and Colored. Or you can customize the look and feel of it very easily
• Includes Contact Form with error checking
• Resizes Automatically to fit any screen size
• One click linking
• Automatically Updates
• No XML Required (unless you want to use the sample XML included)
• Automatically Grabs the first image in the post to display
• Uses Tweener for smooth transitions

External resources used in Template: Function Icon Set

Cya

So add a movieclip to the stage that is the same size of the stage, but make the color’s alpha zero. Make sure the instance name is “bg” then in the actionscript add this:

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    //import library files
    import flash.display.StageAlign;
    import flash.display.StageScaleMode;
    import flash.events.Event;
 
    //reset the background movieclip function
    resetBGsize();
 
    //set the stage scalemode and alignment to no scale and top left
    stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
    stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
 
    // add an event listener to the stage for when it is resized
    stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, onResizeStage);
 
    //onresizestage function for the event listener, calls resetBGsize
    function onResizeStage(e:Event):void {
       resetBGsize();
    }
 
    //resetbgsize function resizes the background movieclip and centers it
    function resetBGsize():void {
       bg.width = stage.stageWidth;
       bg.height = stage.stageHeight;
       bg.x = stage.stageWidth / 2 - bg.width / 2;
       bg.y = stage.stageHeight / 2 - bg.height / 2;
    }

Hope this helps someone out.

Cya

One of the first problems I encountered is when I add the url loader with this line of code, “addChild(loader);” Most other tutorials will tell you to put this in your eventlistener complete function, but I have come across several problems when doing that such as the ugly “1009 cannot access a property or method of a null object reference” error.” The reason you get this is because you are trying to do something with the loader before its actual loaded into memory. So I just add the “addChild(loader)” outside of any eventlistener and it resolves it. Then, I add another function inside of the eventlistener complete function to handle any tweens or effects on the preloader itself after its done loading.

Another problem I come across is the text field not fading away when tweening it. This is a textfield problem, I can’t explain why its doing it, it just is, so the work around there is to make it a movie clip and change that movieclip’s blend mode to anything but normal and then the tweens will handle it correctly.

Make sure to check out some of my advanced preloaders for sale on my activeden portfolio and please buy one if they spark your interest. A nicely designed preloader can really impress your client and its only costs a few bucks.

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//import tweening libraries
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
 
//stop command
stop();
 
//initalize percent, loaded, and total variables for preloader
var percent:Number = 0;
var loaded:Number;
var total:Number;
 
//intialize loader variable
var loader:Loader = new Loader();
 
//set up the listener for the loader object to get the progress of the download
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, getBytesLoop);
//set up the listener for the loader object to call loadingDone function when loading is done
loader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadingDone);
//set up the listener for the on enterframe event, this is called all the time
mypreloader.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME,preloaderMotion);
 
//load the swf you want
//***change this swf name to the one you want to load****
loader.load(new URLRequest("testContent.swf"));
 
//add the loader to the stage
addChild(loader);
 
//getbytesloop function sets the info of the loaded swf during the progress of the load
function getBytesLoop(e:ProgressEvent):void {
 
	//set the total and loaded variable for the progress of the preloader
	total = e.bytesTotal;
	loaded = e.bytesLoaded;
	percent = Math.floor((loaded / total) * 100);
 
	//make the text on the screen show how much is loaded
	textMC.myText.text = percent.toString();
}
 
//loadingDone function hides the preloader when its done
function loadingDone(e:Event):void {
	hidePreloader();
}
 
//preloader motion function give motion to the preloader, add effects here to make your preloader move
function preloaderMotion(e:Event):void {
	mypreloader.rotation += 5;
}
 
//hidepreloader function, fades away all the objects in the preloader and shows the loaded content on the screen
function hidePreloader():void {
	var myTween2:Tween = new Tween(mypreloader, "alpha", Strong.easeOut, 1, 0, 1, true);
	var myTween3:Tween = new Tween(textMC.myText, "alpha", Strong.easeOut, 1, 0, 1, true);
}

Download Flash AS3 Preloader

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//create a boolean variable for when the volume button is being pushed, and variables for the new and old rotation of that button
var buttonCircleMovement:Boolean = false;
var newAngle:Number = 0;
var oldAngle:Number = 0;
 
//create the inital volume variables, start at .5 or 50% volume
var volumePercent:Number = .5;
var currentVolume:Number = .5
 
//masks the volume tracker to what the currentVolume is times the width of the volume bar
volumeTracker.volumeBarMask.width = 80 * currentVolume;
 
//on mouse down allow the the volume to change, on mouse up make it so the volume can't change
buttonCircle.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, volumeOn);
buttonCircle.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, volumeOff);
 
//add event listeners for mouse movements and call the button circle move functions for the button circle
buttonCircle.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, buttonCircleMove);
 
//function is called when the mouse is down on the circle movieclip
function volumeOn(e:MouseEvent):void {
 
	//set the button circle movement variable to true
	buttonCircleMovement = true;
	// get the initial angle of where your mouse click was before the rotating the object
	oldAngle = Math.atan2(buttonCircle.y - mouseY, buttonCircle.x - mouseX) * 180/Math.PI;
}
 
//function is called when the mouse is up off of the circle movieclip
function volumeOff(e:MouseEvent):void {
 
	//set the button circle movement variable to false
	buttonCircleMovement = false;
}
 
//function that controls the volume bar
function buttonCircleMove(e:MouseEvent):void {
 
	//if the button circle movement variable is set to true
	if (buttonCircleMovement) {
 
		//as your mouse moves, calculate the angle by where your mouse is located
		newAngle = Math.atan2(buttonCircle.y - mouseY, buttonCircle.x - mouseX) * 180/Math.PI;
 
		//make a temporary variable hold the difference between the new and old angle
		var tempVar = (newAngle - oldAngle) - 360 * Math.round((newAngle - oldAngle) / 360);
 
		//rotate the circle to the new angle that is being calculated
		buttonCircle.rotation = newAngle;
 
		//make the old angle where the new angle is now
		oldAngle = newAngle;
 
		//get the new volume percent by adding the old percent to the temporary variable divided by 360
		volumePercent = volumePercent + tempVar / 360;
 
		//if the volume percent is greater than 1 then just make it 1
		if (volumePercent >= 1) {
			volumePercent = 1;
		}
		//if the volume percent is less than 0 then just make it 0
		if (volumePercent <= 0) {
			volumePercent = 0;
		}
 
		//make the current volume equal to the volume percent
		currentVolume = volumePercent;
 
		//changes the width of the mask for the volume bar
		volumeTracker.volumeBarMask.width = 80 * currentVolume;
 
	}
}

Cya

So I have been working on a mp3player that is designed similar to a ipod with a little bit different functionality. I needed the text fields to scroll back and forth so you could see all the text written inside of it, if the field was shorter than the width of the text. After looking around for a tutorial or another persons help and not finding a thing for Actionscript 3, I decided to write my own. I am using Tweenlite to handle the tweens because its really low on weight and its a very smooth and powerful tweening engine. I am almost done with the mp3player and I will show you that very soon, but I wanted to post an example of the scrolling text or flash ticker (as some people call them) to you first before then. The example and code is below. I use one movieclip with an instance name of item that has two items inside of it, a dynamic textfield holding the text and a mask to only show the part I want shown.

//import libraries
import flash.utils.*;
import flash.text.TextField;
import gs.*;
import gs.easing.*
 
//make the text too long for the textfield and assign the mask for it
item.menuItemText.text = "This text is too long to fit in this tiny textfield, here is the end";
item.menuItemText.mask = item.menuItemMask;
 
//call the scrollWords function
scrollWords();
 
//the scrollWords function
function scrollWords():void {
        //make the textfield wordwrap false and autosize to textFieldAutoSize.LEFT
	item.menuItemText.wordWrap = false;
	item.menuItemText.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.LEFT;
 
        //if the textwidth is longer than the masks width which is 173 then call goforwardtween
	if(item.menuItemText.textWidth > 173) {
		goForwardTween(item.menuItemText);
	}
}
 
//go forward tween, on complete it calls go back tween
function goForwardTween(tf:TextField):void {
	TweenLite.to(tf, 3, {x:-(item.menuItemText.textWidth) + 163, delay:1, onComplete:goBackTween, onCompleteParams:[tf] });
}
 
//go back tween, on complete it calls go forward tween
function goBackTween(tf:TextField):void {
	TweenLite.to(tf, 3, {x:10, delay:1, onComplete:goForwardTween, onCompleteParams:[tf] });
}

Cya

Here is the swf, and below is the actionscript 3:

package  {
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.display.BlendMode;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.net.URLLoader;
    import flash.net.URLRequest;
    import flash.text.*;
    import fl.transitions.Tween;
    import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;
    import fl.transitions.easing.*;
 
    /*
    * Redo of scott rockers's wordpress to flash integration but in AS3 and as3wordpressFlash class file
    */
    public class AS3WordpressFlash extends MovieClip {
 
        public var i:uint = 0;
        public var titleList:XMLList;
        public var linkList:XMLList;
        public var tf:TextField;
        public var format:TextFormat;
        public var tweenIt:Tween;
        public var tweenIt2:Tween;
        public var theXML:XML;
        public var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
 
        public function AS3WordpressFlash() {
            loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadXML);
            loader.load(new URLRequest("http://www.scottrockers.com/blog/wp-rss2.php"));
        }
 
        function loadXML(e:Event):void {
            theXML = new XML(e.target.data);
            titleList = theXML.channel.item.title;
            linkList = theXML.channel.item.link;
            createTextFields(titleList, linkList);
        }
 
        function createTextFields(titles:XMLList, links:XMLList):void {
            format = new TextFormat();
            format.font = "Arial";
            format.color = 0xFFFFFF;
            format.size = 14;
 
            for (i = 0; i < 5; i++) {
                tf = new TextField();
                tf.blendMode = BlendMode.LAYER;
                tf.width = 10;
                tf.selectable = false;
                tf.autoSize = TextFieldAutoSize.CENTER;
                tf.x = (stage.width)/2;
                tf.y = -20;
                tf.htmlText = "<a href="&quot;+ links[i] +&quot;" target="_blank">" + titles[i] + "</a>";
                tf.setTextFormat(format);
                addChild(tf);
                tweenIt = new Tween(tf, "y", Elastic.easeOut, -20, 50 + (i * 30), 30 + (i * 15), false);
                tweenIt2 = new Tween(tf, "alpha", Strong.easeOut, 0, 1, 100 + (i * 100), false);
            }
        }
    }
}