FlashGuru Blog

A few Flash Blogs from my favourites, which i havent yet added to the Flashblog Links section on the right hand side of each page, all of which are worth checking out, ActionscriptHero, Media Sparkles, Chew Tinfoil and Den Ivanov.

Quite alot is the answer, but for a complete rundown of the new features checkout Phillip Kermans article on Macromedia Devnet.

A couple of very comprehensive Flash MX 2004 reviews for you to read through, one from Webmonkey and one from Flashdevils. I will of course be posting my own little presentation with a couple of examples, in the next couple of days.

Aral Balkan of onRelease has posted up an interactive screenshot of the whole user interface in the new release of Flash for people to see. Move your mouse to look around and use your plus(+) and minus(-) keys to zoom in and zoom out.

PHP’s online documentation is nothing short of an invaluable resource for PHP developers. Yesterday, Actionscript.com announced the launch of Actionscript’s own online documentation - following the footsteps of an already well established and successful format, you will notice alot of similiarities between the Online Actionscript Reference and the Online PHP Reference. The main feature which puts this system ahead of the rest is the user contributed notes for each and every function, method, property, statement, pragma and class. Which means that it is left up to the Flash Community to document the syntax of Actionscript in the format and detail they desire. Myself and a few other contributors from the Flash Community have been, and will continue to be, adding documentation for every syntax element that exists in Flash MX. If Macromedia wont do it properly, then we will just have to do it ourselves.

Bitch Slap the Creative Interactive Director of DOUBLEYOU with your mouse. Now thats a very unique, yet simple idea! Click on his head to jump through the different sections of the site and move your mouse left and right.

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Whuppeee!!! Anybody in the world searching for the term ‘flash mx‘ on google recently will have seen FlashGuru’s Flash MX 101 as the third search result. Third only to Macromedia. Also people searching for ‘flash mx tutorials‘ will now find FlashGuru’s Flash MX 101 - Flash MX Tutorials as the fourth search result. Fourth only to Macromedia and another resource site. Both of these search terms are sending ‘alot’ more unique visitors my way.

We all thought that Stuart Schovenold had dissapeared off the face of the internet, but today his blog was updated for the first time since the end of January - “No, im not dead” he says. Stuart has been busy working on a new product while he has been away which is due to be released in October - ICE (Illogicz Collision Engine), for which he has put online a few screenshots [1] [2] [3] [4] and a full blown flash example in the form of a Pinball game. Welcome back Stuart and nice work!

Scott Manning has taken the role of the Devils Advocat in his latest article on Actionscript.com, which discusses the case both for and against Macromedia implementing product activation in their next line of products. Give it a read and make your own decision.

Yup! It’s official, Macromedia are now releasing Flash Player 7 to the public for everybody to test their sites and sites they visit, to see if everything functions as it should. Help Macromedia ensure that the first release will be of the highest quality by installing and using these players. Let them know if something goes wrong. One major new feature of the player is that it now checks for updates, automatically, every 14 days by defult. Also, if you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, you can now scroll text in textfields automatically.