Category Archives: Flash

Best Practices and Coding Conventions for ActionScript 2.0

Adobe article on “Best Practices and Coding Conventions for ActionScript 2.0”: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/8/main/00001640.html Article on naming suffixes for object types in ActionScript: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43761

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Flash – a short chronology

Flash “pre-history” (Flash creator – Jonathan Gay) 1985 – first games for Mac 1987 – first drawing applications 1991 – IntelliDraw for Mac 1993 – SmartSketch (for pen computers/devices) 1996 – FutureSplash Animator – vectorial animation for the Web Flash … Continue reading

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MTASC and haXe – Open-Source ActionScript Compilers

About MTASC: MTASC (Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler) is the first ActionScript 2 Open Source free compiler. It can compile large number of .as class files in a very short time and generate directly the corresponding SWF bytecode without relying on … Continue reading

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Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming

These links contextualize ActionScript within OOP and Scripting languages. Wikipedia’s article on Object-Oriented Programming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming Related link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_languages

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Flash online resources

Some links to sites with tutorials and resources about Flash: http://www.flashkit.com/ http://www.actionscript.org/ http://www.ultrashock.com/

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FWA: “Most influential Flash Site of the Decade”

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Flash, the website Favorite Website Awards (FWA), in conjunction with Adobe, ran a poll to establish what the most influential Flash website has been beteweem 1996-2006. You can find out the winner for each … Continue reading

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Flash history and anniversary

Some links about Flash history and 10th anniversary: Adobe’s Flash Anniversary pages http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash_anniversary.html http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/special/flashanniversary/ Wired – Flash turns 10 http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2006/08/71558 Flash Magazine article http://www.flashmagazine.com/413.htm Jon Gay’s History of Flash page http://www.adobe.com/macromedia/events/john_gay/ Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_Flash

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Some links to Adobe’s Flash tutorials:

Video tutorials: Getting started with ActionScript 3.0 video http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0130 Creating a Document class using ActionScript 3.0 http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0129 Creating interactive content for mobile devices http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/video_workshop/?id=vid0267 Other Tutorials: Flash 8 Best Practices http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/flash8_bestpractices.html Migrating from Flash 8 to Flash CS3 Professional http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/flash/articles/flacs3_migration.html

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Adobe’s main Flash pages

Flash product page: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/ Flash Developer Center: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/ Flash Design Center: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/designcenter/search.cfm?product=Flash&go=Go

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