Guy Watson

Ive been banging my head against a brick wall for the past hour trying to work out why Flash CS4 was messing up the designers 3d animation when i copied it from his flash document to my much tidier and organised flash document. I never use Paste in Center, infact its hardwired in... (more)

A good Flash Designer will put alot of effort into a preloader, knowing that it may be viewed for sometime while the site loads in the background. Its eye candy to keep the viewer occupied during the times when content or data is being loaded in. Big Spaceship have put together a... (more)

Today Adobe have released a beta version of Flash Player 10 to the masses. Its available to download now on Adobe Labs, there you will find various demos that showcase some of the new features in the player. The latest player features some of the most requested features since the ... (more)

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 m... (more)

Sorry for the mess people, im re-jiggerising things around and getting the first magazine article together. It turns out wordpress doesn’t like to have two seperate instances running on the same server, using the same database, in seperate folders (it gets seriously confused), al... (more)

This Command will delete all empty keyframes on the selected layers. This is useful when you get a messy file from your designers and want to tidy it up a bit. (more…) ... (more)

This extension adds a new panel to the Flash Authoring Tool, that enables you to specify an interval for automatically saving the document you are presently working on. Intervals can be set in minutes or hours. (more…) ... (more)

This extension adds a new FileSystem object to the JSAPI which contains 23 new JSFL functions that allow you to modify/access the local FileSystem in your JSFL scripts. You can for example write to the registry using JSFL, execute external applications and so on… Documentation i... (more)

This extension adds a new command to the Commands menu in the Flash Authoring Tool that will take the frames you have selected and add them to a new layer in the order you selected them, one by one. (more…) ... (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. (more…) ... (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 ... (more)

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 shape... (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=... (more)

I've been playing around with the Tree Component in great depth and have found a few discrepancies which I feel are major pit holes. After a lot of searching, it was also clear that many other developers have come across the same issues. My main gripe: the tree component's suppor... (more)

Part 1 of this article (Vol. 1, issue 3) covered a general introduction to the Extensibility Layer and discussed the fundamental DOM and the relationship between different parts of a Flash document and their associated objects. It introduced the History panel and showed you how t... (more)

With any new version of a software product, a whole new host of features is introduced - Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is no different. It has been rebuilt for the ground up with a new JavaScript API (Flash JavaScript), which enables developers to extend the functionality of the autho... (more)