Posted on September 25th, 2008 by brad
You can see the presentation demo of Adobe Flash CS4 here: http://tv.adobe.com/vi+f1556v1685
But if you’re too lazy, I’ve done a run through of the features.
Features of Flash CS4:
Object-based animation - Adobe’s new animation model, a.k.a ‘new motion feature’. Basically you can right click something and add motion tween. Not too exciting.
3d trasformation - new [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2008 by brad
The Adobe Flash 10 beta has entered the next phase. The enhancements in the Flash 10 Beta 2 include:
Rich Media
Enhanced Sound APIs — new with 7/2/08 build
Other Community Requested Enhancements
Linux WMODE — new with 7/2/08 build
Video4Linux v2 Support — new with 7/2/08 build
unloadAndStop — new with 7/2/08 build
Limited Fullscreen Keyboard Access — new with 7/2/08 [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2008 by brad
Great news for Flash developers!
Adobe is teaming up with search industry leaders to dramatically improve search results of dynamic web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe is providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information that is currently [...]
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by brad
I’m working in the Australian education system as a Flash developer. Recently I’ve been reviewing the processes that we go through when planning and developing a Flash application. Education projects have quite a few differences to commercial work, and generally in education the development process takes a lot longer than it should. Improving the overall [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by roger
Pre-requisites
Adobe Flash / Flex / Dreamweaver CS3 already installed on your computer.
Adobe AIR player needs to be installed on your computer, you can get it from:
Download: Adobe AIR Player
http://get.adobe.com/air
Adobe AIR SDK needs to be installed on your computer, you can get it from:
Download: Adobe AIR SDK
http://www.adobe.com/products/air/tools/sdk/
Dreamweaver CS3 / AJAX + Adobe AIR + PC or [...]
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Posted on June 19th, 2008 by brad
I’ve been working in the government education field as a Flash developer for a while now, so I’ve decided to write a series of articles on what I do, this being the first.
I guess the best place to start is a general overview of some of the things that really effect what we can do [...]
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Posted on June 16th, 2008 by roger
Check out this awesome code library. It allows you to transform images and textfields in Flash runtime.
This class works with the TransformItem class to give the user the ability to scale, rotate, and/or move any MovieClip on the stage using an intuitive interface (similar to most modern drawing applications). When the user clicks on the [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2008 by brad
A new gaming community, Nonoba, has just opened their doors to a beta of their multiplater Flash API:
Some of the features that Nonoba boasts are:
Easy Multiplayer Development
Serverside code:
When you develop a game for the Nonoba Game Server, your code and your game logic runs on the server, which gives great response times, security [...]
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Posted on June 5th, 2008 by brad
This is a quick run through of installing the Flash Beta 10. I’m installing it on OS X 10.5; the instructions vary a little between Windows, Mac and Linux, however they basically run along the same lines.
First thing you do, before you can install the Astro beta, is you must uninstall any current version of [...]
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Posted on June 4th, 2008 by brad
If you haven’t heard about it already, Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro", has reached open beta! And has a whole plethora of new and exciting features for Flash developers, including:
3D Effects - Flash is finally incorporating 3D. This feature is long overdue, 3D has always been out of reach for those people without advance [...]
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