Flash in its essence began as a tool for creating vector animations on the
web. The Flash Player was designed specifically as a lightweight animation
viewer to display those moving vector objects which are in their simplest
form, mathematical equations that describe complex shapes made up of points,
lines, curves and fills. However, nowadays developers and designers are using
Flash to do a lot more than just animation, today we see Flash being used for
everything from interactive banner ads to games and large applications with
complex user interfaces. We are now pushing Flash to its limits and our frame
rates are starting to suffer as we continue to develop content that is more
application centric.
The Flash Player has had obvious performance limitations for some time no... (more)
As most of you know, Flash began as a tool for creating vector animations on
the web. Flash Player was designed specifically as a lightweight animation
viewer to display moving vector objects, which are, in their simplest form,
mathematical equations that describe complex shapes made up of points, lines,
curves, and fills.
However, today, developers and designers use Flash to do a lot mo... (more)
Tip #1: Neat Fix - onLoad Bug
I have heard so many people moan on the many community forums and mailing
lists about the onLoad event handler not working with loadMovie and although
I have already posted a fix for the problem
(www.actionscripts.org/forums/showthread.php3?threadid=13830), I found this
very small and functional fix that does the same thing, a while ago on the
Flashcoders Ma... (more)
This extension adds a new command to the Commands menu in the Flash Authoring
Tool that will open a list of flash documents, run a jsfl script for that
document, and then optionally save that document and close it. All of which
is customised through a GUI.
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Andre Michelle is leading a campaign called Adobe MAKE SOME NOISE that is
calling for Adobe to take some action and fix a pretty big problem with the
Actionscript Sound API in the latest Flash Player and also to rally together
support to show Adobe that alot of people need/want more control over sound
with Actionsript in the next version of the Flash Player.
Andre does some really cool st... (more)
Guy Watson (aka FlashGuru) has been a well-recognized figure in the Flash community for around four years, supporting the community with tutorials and source files, moderating the large Flash community forums, and running his own Flash resource Web site - FlashGuru's MX 101. Guy was one of the two developers that created the award-winning zoom interface for Relevare and now works for Endemol UK, the creative force behind reality television, producing programs such as Big Brother and The Salon. Guy now spends most of his time developing Flash games and applications for high-profile clients such as Channel 5 Television, Ladbrookes, and UK Style.
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