Flash Security

About the security panel in Flash:

Global Security Settings panel

Global security settings for content creators

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Marius Watz

Marius Watz has been developing an impressive work, mainly involving generative visuals. He gave a memorable presantation on this year’s edition of PixelAche Festival.

From Rhizome.org:

Marius Watz works with computational form, writing custom software to create visual systems for installation, video and realtime performance. Recent works focus on drawing machines as well as visual performances for music.

Some links to Marius’s work:

http://www.unlekker.net/
http://evolutionzone.com/
http://workshop.evolutionzone.com/
http://www.generatorx.no/
http://flickr.com/photos/watz/

Marius Watz

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Flash and Mobile Devices

Here is a list of links on the Adobe website about Flash and mobile devices:

Flash lite product page:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashlite/

Mobile page:
http://www.adobe.com/mobile/

Mobile and devices development center:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/

Flash lite development center:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/flashlite.html

Flash lite documentation:
http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashlite/

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Flash and RSS

A tutorial for creating a blog reader (from an RSS feed) in Flash (using XML):

http://www.thegoldenmean.com/technique/rssReader01.html

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Flash and PHP

Here is a link to Adobe Flash Developer Center’s PHP Page:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/php.html

And a link to an important PHP resource:
http://www.php.net/

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XML links

Some useful links about XML:

Wikipedia XML page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML

W3C XML page:
http://www.w3.org/XML/

O´Reilly´s XML page:
http://www.xml.com/

XML-related portal:
http://www.xml.org/

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Sound in Flash CS3

The sound implementation in Flash has been greatly improved with Flash CS3:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000283.html

Here is a great example of a simple sound visualizer:

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/00000296.html

Note the following limitations:

Because sound data from a microphone or from RTMP streams do not pass through the global SoundMixer object, the SoundMixer.computeSpectrum() method will not return data from those sources.

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Flash Video

Some useful links about video in Flash:

Adobe Flash Video developer center:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/video.html

Article on video encoding:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/encoding_video.html

Article on selecting a video encoder:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/selecting_video_encoder.html

Article on using the Adobe Flash CS3 Video Encoder:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/quickstart/video_encoder/

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Adobe Flash documentation page – recommended

Here is a great link to several (very useful) Flash PDFs and live docs:

http://www.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flash/

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Course files and topics

With this entry I intend to match the course files with the course topics.
Some exercises belong to several topics, but still this classification could be useful.

A reminder: the course files can be downloaded (or viewed, in the case of .swf´s) from here:
http://mlab.uiah.fi/mediacode/coursefiles/course_2007_05/

Introduction to variables, arrays, functions, listeners, text fields, components
2007_05_03/arrays1.fla
2007_05_03/textArea.fla

Interaction: buttons
2007_05_03/variables1.fla

Math class, operators
2007_05_03/variables2.fla

Information control: conditions/loops
2007_05_04/ufo.fla

Time: onEnterFrame, setInterval, Date class
2007_05_04/date.fla

Interaction: keyboard, mouse position
2007_05_04/bug.fla

Movie clip class: properties
2007_05_03/spaceship.fla

Movie clip class: paths
2007_05_04/menu1.fla
2007_05_08/menu2.fla

Movie clip class: drag and drop, hit test
2007_05_08/recycle.fla
2007_05_08/spacecrash.fla

Movie clip class: duplicate, attach, create, remove
2007_05_08/stars.fla
2007_05_08/snow.fla

Movie clip class: drawing methods
2007_05_09/lines.fla
2007_05_09/curves.fla
2007_05_09/squares.fla

External communication: loading text, images, swf files; pre-loaders
2007_05_09/tv.fla
2007_05_09/photos.fla
2007_05_10/preloader.fla

External communication: ActionScript files
2007_05_10/textfile.fla

Text: String, TextField, TextFormat classes
2007_05_10/password.fla
2007_05_10/string.fla
2007_05_11/htmltext.fla

External data: LoadVars, XML classes; PHP
2007_05_11/moviesdb.fla

Sound (and Video intro)
2007_05_11/sound.fla
2007_05_11/video.fla

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