Building Functioning Flash Buttons With Fireworks Graphics

Thanks in large part to Live Effects, Fireworks makes beautiful buttons. Given its ability to export to SWF, a lot of people assume that they can create killer buttons in Fireworks for use in Flash. Unfortunately, the integration of the two programs doesn’t extend quite that far. But that doesn’t mean you can’t create buttons in Fireworks for use in Flash. It just means that you need to do a couple extra steps. Read more [...]

July 24, 2002

Debugging your Fireworks MX Flash Commands (Part II) The Art of Tracing

For quick down and dirty (yet still effective) debugging, you can use the timeless art of tracing variables staight out from the internal Flash player within Flash MX to the output window. This is often useful when you wish to check if a condition exists and report that value to the output window. You can also Pseudo Trace your movie if it is a Fireworks MX Flash Command within Fireworks MX as we shall see later. Read more [...]

June 16, 2002

Creating Commands using Fireworks MX and Flash MX

Now that designers and developers can create interactive commands for Fireworks MX—with the help of new features in Flash MX—extensibility is about to become the hot topic in the Fireworks community. Fireworks MX already installs with several new work-saving commands, such as Align and the Data-Driven Graphics Wizard, but these are only the beginning. Read more [...]

April 4, 2002

Twist and Fade v2.0 (Fireworks 4)

The first version of Twist and Fade was created for a command tutorial I was writing for Jeffrey Bardzell and Lisa Lopuck's Fireworks 4.0 Expert Edge book. I had struggled for hours trying to come up with a command that was both simple to explain, but also also fun and creative. Read more [...]

February 22, 2002

Creating a DHTML Interaction with Fireworks and Dreamweaver

In this tutorial, you will create a simple quiz interaction using Fireworks’ export to CSS option and the Dreamweaver Show-Hide Layers behavior. Few software programs enable you to create interactivity without having to do any scripting, but Dreamweaver is one of them. When you add the Fireworks export to CSS layers feature to the workflow, you have an easy way to add graphics into the interaction. Read more [...]