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Adobe Flash-related applications — Flex and Apollo

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Nuno Correia

Adobe’s Flex and Apollo (still in “Adobe Labs” stage) both use Flash technology. Both are worth checking out. About Flex: Adobe® Flexâ„¢ 2 software is a rich Internet application framework based on Adobe Flash® that will enable you to productively … Continue reading →

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Flash-related animation and 3D tools

Posted on May 7, 2007 by Nuno Correia

For those interested in animation and 3D, I recommend two tools that complement Flash very well. For 3D authoring with Flash, I recommend Swift 3D: Swift 3D is the only 3D application to directly integrate with Adobe Flash and provides … Continue reading →

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Best Practices and Coding Conventions for ActionScript 2.0

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Nuno Correia

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

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Nuno Correia

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

Posted on May 1, 2007 by Nuno Correia

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

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Nuno Correia

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

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Nuno Correia

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”

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Nuno Correia

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

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Nuno Correia

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:

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Nuno Correia

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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