July 23, 2005

Flash Coders Mailing List

July 23, 2005

Performance test with blur on Flash Player 8

July 23, 2005

Flash Player 8 Filter Testing

Some pretty sweet posts inlcuding examples and FLAs for the capabilities of the New Flash Player 8 (can't wait to see the IDE for the new version fo Flash!) You will obviously need to download the public beta of Flash Player 8Main Story on ProtoZooMain FiltersDisplacementMapFilter:ColorMatrixFilter:ConvolutionFilter:GradientBevelFilter:GradientGlowFilter:BevelFilter:GlowFilter:BlurFilter:DropShadowFilter:BitmapFilter: Read more [...]

July 23, 2005

Upcoming Flash Player Capabilities

June 17, 2005

Domain Missing In Action

The strangest thing happened the other week, after normally getting expiration emails on a few domains that I own, the most important domain (www.phireworx.com) suddenly started to redirect to a holding page. No site, no nothing apart from a 'Why are you here?' question at the top of the page.Well, after a couple of seconds of digging, it appeared that the domain had expired, and I'd received no notification of the event. A couple of days later after DNS propogation and payment had been made all Read more [...]

May 19, 2005

Flash Communication Server Best Practices

New at the Macromedia Developer Center, a best practice Breeze seminar for Flash Communication Server, which also stands well for developing AS 2.0 applications, including the following sections of interestExtending MovieClip versus extending ObjectHow to declare your variables Public/private variables Getters/setters Typing everything, ECMA typing weirdness Constructor Attaching UI components No extra listener objects! Your typical change/click handler Use public/private on your function declarations Read more [...]

May 12, 2005

New Flash Extension : Filler Text MX 2004 for Flash MX 2004

A new extension, this time focussing on delivering a little time saving within Flash MX 2004 allowing you to get on with the project in hand.Filler Text MX 2004 takes some of the pain and laborious nature of creating Flash compositions away, by giving you some handy options for creating filler text for your creations.Ideal whilst waiting for clients to provide final copy for a project, or creating placeholder text for your Flash projects, you have complete control over the following options Number Read more [...]

April 29, 2005

Subtle Button Creation Using MC Tween prototypes

Using the ubiquitous MC Tween prototype library which has been around and I've been using for a while (found here), I needed to create some quick buttons which had a funky sliding effect complete with alpha fading, so I thought I'd share it with you Subtle Button source code downloadable from here >> Download MC Tween Prototypes here >> The result of which was this little animation (try rolling your mouse over and away) ...all tweened via ActionScript, simple to modifiy Read more [...]

April 27, 2005

Phireworx FW MX 2004 Extensions Warez’d Again…

Well the hackers and crackers have been at it again, releasing pirated versions of Image Edger Pro and SmartTabs... Whilst piracy is never a good thing, it certainly stings more for the smaller development companies such as Phireworx than the larger companies (Macromedia, Adobe etc)All I can say is follow your instinct, if you have downloaded an illegal copy of any Phireworx software use you own judgement as to whether you should continue its usage or not. Read more [...]

April 18, 2005

The Biggest News… Period…Adobe to acquire Macromedia…

Well, just traversing through my RSS feeds this morning and stumbled upon one of the biggest pieces of new I've seen for many years, that Adobe is to acquire Macromedia for $3.4 billion USD.Press Release (Link >> )What are the implications? Fireworks MX 2004 to be discontinued? PhotoShop Elements to bite the dust?, GoLive or Dreamweaver to roll up their sleeves and have a fist fight? I'm going to watch the newswires closely, as I'm a little more than interested as how this is going to affect our Read more [...]