Prior to Flash CS4, using Flash’s project panel to manage your project files was a bit of pain to work with. For those who have used it before, I am sure you have felt that same pain.
With the acquisition of Grant Skinner’s gProject Panel, Flash CS4 now provides a much improved project panel. When managing multiple projects, the new Flash project panel allows you to do so much more quickly and easily.
The new Project panel helps you do the following:
Create, manage, and visualize projects
Switch between project folders quickly
Open files for editing
Create files and folders
Test and publish project files
Bind external resources to your project
Working with the Project panel in Flash
Dan Carr recently wrote an article which provides an overview of the Project panel in Flash CS4 Professional and includes a tutorial to help you begin using the tool quickly. The tutorial guides you through the creation of a photo gallery slideshow project from a series of supplied assets.
It is definitely worth the read if you’ve never used the Flash project panel before. Even if you have, this article provides some handy tips and tricks on enhancing the use of the Flash Project panel.
As many have come to know, Kuler is a great color theme-sharing tool released by Adobe. It started out as a web-based application that enabled users to create, save, and download community-created color themes. This community wave led to the creation of many Kuler tools like: Mac OS X Dashboard widget, Kuler Desktop, and now comes the Kuler Panel.
Integrating Kuler Within Flash CS3/4
Ben Pritchard’s contribution to the Flash community is the Kuler Panel for Flash CS3/4. Integrating the Kuler panel with Flash is as simple as installing the Flash extension. Access all of the community-created color themes or harmonies directly right through Flash.
With the release of Flash CS4, Adobe has integrated its own version of a Kuler panel. Installing this version of the Kuler Panel will not effect the built in panel and infact they can be used together. Kuler users will find these tools very handy.
If you’ve ever wanted to track your Flash content over the web, then you’d know what a challenge this task entails. In the past, Flash tracking was not provided out of the box, and every implementation had to be customized.
It is now safe to say that tracking your Flash content, has gotten much easier and more accurate. With the assistance of Adobe and other third party developers, the Google Analytics team has developed and released Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe Flash.
What is Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe Flash?
This new Flash tracking code offers all the rich features of the current JavaScript-based version as it translates the current Google Analytics tracking code into the ActionScript 3 programming language that dramatically simplifies the ability to track your Flash, Flex and AS3 content.
Dan Carr recently wrote an article which provides an overview of the Project panel in Flash CS4 Professional and includes a tutorial to help you begin using the tool quickly. The tutorial guides you through the creation of a photo gallery slideshow project from a series of supplied assets.
