FlashGuru Blog

The Macromedia Flash Remoting Support Center has gone live, check out this mini-site to find out everything you ever needed to know about Flash remoting, i must admit, its purpose and functionality seem a little hazey to alot of people ive been speaking to, im sure this will solve any quibbles.

Unicode support was one of the much fussed about additions to Flash MX, a worthy addition at that. Macromedia reveal all about this new feature in this technote entitled “Unicode in Macromedia Flash MX”.

Its pretty straight forward for any flash user to drag a component onto the stage from the components panel and change its parameters. What if you want to attach one of the components onto the stage with actionscript, during your movie and have it function as it does when it is simply dragged on the stage?
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If you want a complete rundown of all the changes made to the Actionscript Dictionary since the release of Flash MX, then be sure to visit the Flash MX Actionscript Dictionary Errata now and again, a list of all the errors, a list of all the changes, a list of all the additions and most importantly, a list of all the commands that exist in the flash 6 player but dont exist in the flash help(undocumented).

EditPlus the popular text editor is now Flash MX Actionscript enabled, thanks to Charlie Cordova who kindly spent an hour or two of her personal life putting together the syntax file for us all. You can download the syntax file from here.

Are you sick of your browser caching loaded variables? are you sick of loaded movies being cached? Then heres how to stop the browser from caching your data…
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Having problems removing SharedObjects from the users local computer? here are two easy to use methods that take the hassle out of clearing them permanently…
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Another Flash MX Actionscript decompiler, with the most of the same features as Actionscript Viewer 3 and more. Seems to me that this company and Buraks are going to be competing for each others business, the only problem i can see is that Buraks has been known throughout the flash community since version 4, as the ‘One and only Actionscript Decompiler’, might be a bit late for some competition to come onto the scene…
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The Flash Developers worst nightmare is here, we knew it wouldnt be long before our flash mx .swf files were at the mercy of the decompiler. The first 3rd Party Software Application to decompile Flash MX .swf files is Actionscript Viewer 3 by Burak. You can now decompile the bytecode back into readable format A.K.A Actionscript from any .swf file, Flash 4, Flash 5 or Flash MX.

The gurus of Flash development bring you the only comprehensive resource on developing Flash for the Pocket PC, cell phone & other devices. Branden Hall, Philip Torrone, Glen Thomas, Mike Chambers, Craig Kroegor and Phil Scott.

Flash Enabled guides Flash designers & developers in creating content and applications for multiple devices with Flash and other tools. Focusing on the Pocket PC platform, this book also discusses considerations in developing Flash for set-top box systems, cell phones, and lays the foundation for devices such as the Palm…
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Youve seen the settings menu, you know there are Microphone capabilities and you know there are Camera capabilities, now you want to do something other than watch yourself in the webcam and listen to your own voice, well, the new ‘Macromedia Flash Communication Technology’ has a new mini-site on the Macromedia website, posted live today, sign up now, to be notified when the new product is available…
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Now this website, had me pondering for along time, the navigation at Perfect Fools has to be one of my favourites of all time, alongside Relevare(of course) and Fido.

Drag the pages like you would when you are reading a book, left to right to see the page below. Now that is some serious timeline based masking with mouse interactivity. WOWZERS!

Two amazingly succulent and tantilisiling websites to drop your draw at, courtesy of Craig at Miniml.

_Miedoz - Absolutley love the placeholders, the crisp text, subtle colours and tidy dropshadow.

StudioTimo - Original and mind boggling experiments, slick motion, very interactive, neat, tidy,crisp and usable.

Bookmarked!

We all get a buzz off seeing whacky flash/actionscript experiments, get your teeth into these nifty little beasts. Quite possibly the most advanced things i have seen thus far made in Flash MX which is quite sad really, its been a while now since the launch, and still no super amazing, blow your socks off Flash MX websites. ‘Huuummmphhhh’.

Branden Hall Actionscript Mastermind has his own column on the Macromedia Flash MX Application Developer Center website conveniently named Flash Extreme, i assume it is aimed at the hardcore actionscript developers just by looking at the name…
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As most of you should know by now, the Macromedia Community Managers, namely; Mike Chambers, John Dowell, Bob Tartar, Matt Brown and Vernon Viehe have been running their own Blogs for the past couple of weeks, recently they recieved alot of acclaim and publicity from an article which was published on Wired, now you can find the full lowdown of this supposeadly new craze, straight from the Macromedian keyboard, in the latest Macromedia Designer & Developer Article, Blogs Are Huge by Ed Krimmen.

There has been a plain and boring index page located at this url for the past two weeks, if not more…. Ive been extremley busy, but for the last week ive made time to get this website live and kicking again…
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