FlashGuru Blog

Sorry for the lack of updates over the past five days, im in Puerto Banus, Marbella getting toasted by the sun. I have a huge backlog of news waiting in my inbox, but i dont have time right now to go through it all because im off to Gibraltar very shortly. Normality imminent. Ciao.

Fullasagoog the Macromedia Community news aggregator has been given a fresh coat of paint, looks mighty fine! If you havent seen it already, then nows the time to look

Buraks, the makers of Actionscript Viewer and URL Action Editor add another swf related tool to their suite today. Actionscript Replacer is a tool which will take the actionscript from one .swf file and place it into another. The tool is available to customers who have purchased both Actionscript Viewer and URL Action Editor, but you can buy all three for $99, bargain!

Yup, hes probably the last person in the whole of the Flash Community to get himself blogging, but he has finally decided to join the bandwagon. Colin Moock now has his own blog! Bookmark imminent.

As we all know, Were-Here has been down for some time now, but today the founders, Jessica Speigel and Aaron Adams uploaded a lengthy ‘Coming back soon’ notice, complete with explanation of what has been happening and what will be happening. Check it out.

David Stern has released a set of php scripts that enable flash developers to create and store images(jpg, jpeg, wbmp, png) on the server. The available implementation that is included with the source-code is a drawing application that saves the users drawing on the server, but it can be changed to do other things aswell.

I was browsing through some of the technotes on the Macromedia Flash Support pages and found a few interesting ones, which may be of interest to others:

• AllowScriptAccess Parameter
• How big can a Flash Movie be?
• Transparent Flash Movies
• Recommended Flash Movie Sizes

The second of a series of add-on plugins for Actionscript Viewer 3, is now available for free download. ASV IE Cache SWF Browser lets you easily search the Windows/Internet Explorer Cache for SWF files by partial URL/SWF name and access time.

http://www.simonf.com/flap/

http://amfphp.sourceforge.net/

Mike Chambers has posted some pictures he took during the FlashForward 2003 conference in San Fransisco. You can view them here. I want one of those badges!!