We all know that Adobe launched a week ago the Creative Suite CS5 and we’re excited about that. Plenty of new features in Flash CS5 that need to be explored will make our lives easier. Here are some of them:
When building a flash site the creativeness of one can reach out bound limits. But what happens if we are having a lack of imagination? I gathered a 30+ list of agency flash websites where you can find inspiration starting from various flash preloaders, visual effect, dynamic design and so on.
Adobe® AIR™ is an execution environment inter-operating system that allows developers tu use proven web technologies such as HTML, Ajax, Adobe Flash® and Adobe Flex® to build and implement rich Internet applications that run outside the browser on multiple operating systems.
Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine was a bimonthly magazine, distributed in USA, completely dedicated to the Flash world. The magazine stands out to be a source of useful information for the intermediate and advanced Flash & Flex developers.
A really simple and useful tip. The drag and drop functionality in Actionscript 3.0. You can use it to drag pictures from one spot to other, to put items in a shoping cart, to arrange objects in a specific order etc. I’ll show you how to match 3 different shapes in their corresponding spots. Here is the final movie: How is done: 1. Create the 3 small shapes and put them individually in a Movie Clip. Also give each of them an instance name (I call them item1, item2, item3). 2. Now for the large [...]
In an early post I wrote about The Actionscript Conference, the largest AS conference in South East Asia. And since I’m still in topics about conferences I decided to write about the largest Flash conference in Europe. Of course that is Flash on the Beach.
For the video of the week we thought to inform you about open source adobe’s products. For more details you can visit Open Source Adobe. And don’t forget about OMSF and TLF the new open-sources from Adobe. We wrote about them in an earlier post.
In the beginning of this summer Adobe Labs released Beta versions of some new tools to work with it and we could see some new changes to their Flash Platform. The tools are: Flash Catalyst , allows you to take artwork created in the Creative Suite tools and turn it into a working Flash interface Flash Builder 4 , it’s a tool for building all kinds of Flash applications (including pure-ActionScript apps) Flex 4 SDK, open-source framework that’s the foundation of both Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4. The biggest feature is the new Spark component architecture