Flash and Flex Developer’s Magazine is one of few magazines that target Flash and Flex development. It offers tutorials, product reviews, and articles from the industry’s talent. Recently, this up and coming magazine subscription has gone digital and completely FREE!
September marks the first month of this free digital publication. They are also, providing downloads from previous months.
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.
This ActionScript reference for rich Internet application development provides an alphabetical reference for all native ActionScript APIs for the Adobe Flash platform runtimes: Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR-as well as the Adobe Flex framework APIs. The RIA guide has been recently updated to include the API changes effected by Adobe AIR 1.5, Flex 3.2 and Flash Player 10.
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.
Anytime you can extend your tool sets to fit a much more simplified work flow, the better control you have over the tool versus the tool over you. Being able to store code snippets within Flash has been a feature that I am sure a lot of Flash users would love to have available. You’d think a functionality like so would already to integrated within Flash, however until then you can focus your attention to ASExpander.
What is ASExpander?
ASExpander is a JSFL extension created by Keith Peters for Flash CS3/4 that allows you to integrate a ActionScript snippet functionality into your existing Flash workflow. ASExpander allows you to store your existing or new ActionScript code snippets into an external file and then map it to a command of your liking. There are no limits to the amount or type of snippets stored.
While the ASExpander does have its flaws like no interface to interact with it, it is a very nice alternative to a previously created snippets panel created Lee Brimelow.
As of today, trial versions of Flash CS4 are now available for download. Now is your chance to try CS4 to see if it’s worth the upgrade. However, I’d find something to do in the meantime as these downloads range anywhere from 888Mb and 1.75Gb. So start your download now!!!
The trial versions of Flash CS4 are available for Mac and PC in the languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
Flashloaded presents a new innovative Flash component called 3D Spiral. The 3D Spiral is a Flash gallery component that displays images on an interactive 3D rotating spiral using the Papervision3D engine.
Features to be expected of 3D Spiral are:
Customizable height, width and spacing
Control what images are loaded via XML or ActionScript
With the Flash on the Beach conference wrapping up at Brighton, UK, Peter Elst just posted a video on the keynote held at this year’s conference. This year’s keynote is given by Richard Galvan,Serge Jespers and Mark Doherty as they took the stage to talk about Flash CS4, AIR and Flash Lite. Enjoy!
Since Adobe announced its latest version of the Creative Suite, Lee Brimelow has put together a great video demonstrating some of the new features of Flash CS4 experience. These new features are definitely creating a huge buzz from within the Flash community and it is nice to see Adobe’s evangelists hyping it up even more. Well done, Lee.
