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Adobe Articles Creating buttons in Flash Professional Buttons are a simple and fundamental part of web-based and desktop applications. They are an intuitive way to connect the user experience of browsing the web with the process of building controls in Flash. This article covers the types of buttons you can create in Adobe Flash Professional (CS4 and later) and the pros and cons of working with each type. Preloading TLF runtime shared libraries in Flash Professional CS5.5 Adobe Flash Professional CS5 introduced a new type of text field to Flash called TLF text. TLF text has several advantages over Classic text, such as advanced formatting options, better font compression and rendering, and support for complexly formatted languages. In order to support TLF text, Adobe Flash Player was updated to change how it loads the related runtime shared libraries (RSLs) and the content you define in the SWF file. Automating tasks in Flash Professional CS5 Automation describes the use of prebuilt and saved functionality to facilitate routine processes and effects. For example, you could automate complex geometric graphics production using the decorative tools in Flash Professional as a shortcut for generating patterns. You could automate animation production by using saved and prebuilt tween effects in the Motion Presets panel... Updated: Working with the Project panel in Flash Professional The best way to avoid web development projects that become disorganized, cluttered, and downright confusing is to take advantage of the project management tools available in your development environment. The Project panel is the primary means to manage your projects quickly and easily in Flash Professional CS5... Web video template: Media presentation with details The web video template is a media gallery sample project for use with Adobe Flash Professional that you can populate and customize with your own theme, content, soundtrack, and graphics. This article provides an overview of the template's features along with instructions for customizing the layout to suit your needs... Using the Flash OSMF Media Player template This article provides an overview of a media player template, developed for use with Flash video templates available on the Adobe Developer Connection. The media player takes advantage of the advanced content formatting features of Open Source Media Framework, or OSMF, while presenting an experience familiar to anyone who has worked with the video templates or the FLVPlayback component in Adobe Flash Professional... Read more... Using Adobe Media Encoder CS5 The FLV and F4V file formats are an integral part of the [video] viewing experience, not a separate pop-up window that plays video externally and interrupts the experience. Flash Professional treats video as a media type; you can layer, script, and control video like any other object in a SWF file... Migrating from ActionScript 2.0 to ActionScript 3.0: Key concepts and changes This article provides an overview of key concepts that will help you migrate your applications to ActionScript 3. When I first started building ActionScript 3 apps, the hardest thing for me to get used to was the changes to the simple commands that I had used for years. Where did the attachMovie method go? Where did everything in the MovieClip class move to? It felt like I had to learn to walk again right before a big race. Formatting text for localized Flash projects Adobe Flash Professional CS5 offers new levels of support for displaying multicultural text using the Text Layout Framework (TLF). The Text Layout Framework provides the functionality for a new type of text field in Flash Professional. TLF text can display languages with greater formatting control and includes full support for complex scripts using right-to-left and vertical text. The Text Layout Framework—combined with the Strings panel and the range of options available in ActionScript—enable Flash developers to build content that can be localized to different languages. Understanding ActionScript 3.0 debugging in Flash Debugging is the process of removing known issues from your application or testing for unknown errors and performance problems. In the end, this process is usually what makes or breaks a project. This article is designed to help you understand the debugging process and issues common to developing in the ActionScript 3 environment in Adobe Flash Professional CS5. Creating animation in ActionScript 3.0 The ActionScript 3 language offers programmatic access to most of the elements in Adobe Flash Player. Included in the ActionScript language are several classes devoted to creating animation, which allow you to create simple or complex motion effects without using a timeline. Combining animation and ActionScript using Flash CS5 and Flash Builder 4 The introduction of Adobe Flash Builder 4, an Eclipse-based IDE for ActionScript 3 and Flex framework development, has given Flash developers the opportunity to take advantage of a highly productive code development environment while continuing to use Adobe Flash Professional for the creation of interactive content...
Adobe Developer Connection Dan helps the ADC update the following articles by contributing feature reviews and new content: Animation Learning Guide for Flash Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 offers several ways to include animation in your projects. The Animation Learning Guide for Flash explains how to use all of these animation types in Flash Professional, including the improved way of creating and editing motion tweens using the Timeline and Motion Editor. Explore the sections below to dive into whatever topic interests you. ActionScript 3 Samples for Flash Professional These ActionScript 3 samples demonstrate various features common in Adobe Flash Professional CS5 development. Some samples are complete applications, while others simply introduce a concept that you can use to build your own apps. Use these files to investigate how each of the samples was constructed... Components Learning Guide for Flash Adobe Flash Professional components are building blocks for creating rich interactive applications on the web. By providing complex pieces that behave in a consistent way and are ready to use and customize, components significantly reduce the time and effort needed to develop applications from scratch... Video Learning Guide for Flash Adobe Flash Professional lets you easily put video on a web page in a format that almost anyone can view. This guide provides an introduction to web video, including information on how to create and publish video on the web... Creating your first Flash Professional CS5 document Adobe Flash Professional CS5 is an authoring tool that designers and developers use to create presentations, applications, and other content that enables user interaction. Flash projects can include simple animations, video content, complex presentations, applications, and everything in between. In general, individual pieces of content made with Flash Professional are called applications (or SWF applications), even though they might only be a basic animation. You can make media-rich applications by including pictures, sound, video, and special effects.
Adobe Design Center Flash: Ten years, ten perspectives: Dan Carr The Adobe Design Center is helping celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of Flash! We asked ten experienced Flash designers from all around the world to tell us how they started with Flash and what it’s taught them about creativity and the web, and to offer some tips for working with Flash. The following articles offer a wealth of advice and tips on Flash, and stories about how Flash found these designers.
Adobe TV ADC Presents The Adobe Developer Connection (ADC) is your source for technical articles and how-to videos that cover Adobe developer products and technologies. Dan Carr presents the following series of beginning-level Flash demos:
Awards ADC Write and Give Program The ADC Write & Give Program acknowledges the writing efforts of our ADC community authors by donating US$100 for each article that our authors get published on the Adobe Developer Connection (ADC). Each author chooses a charity that they would like their contribution to support from a list of five preselected charities. Dan has participated 8 times since the program started:
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Projects Work with MyWeb Dan's working with MyWeb Software to create dynamic avatar driven chat environments for social networking. Look for more information in 2011... Work with Autodesk Dan trained the Autodesk visual design team in the 2004 and again in 2009 in Flash development and ActionScript. He currently contributes solutions for the Autodesk website video player, geo-targeted banner system, and ActionScript 3.0 Flash banner templates... Work with Kayak Dan created the Flash "flippy" animation engine for Kayak.com in 2010. Ongoing development projects include Flash banner development... http://www.kayak.com Work with Williams-Sonoma Dan produced the Williams-Sonoma training department's logo design along with supporting graphics and illustrations for WSI's web-based training programs. http://www.williams-sonoma.com
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