10 Essential Adobe Flash Links

Adobe Flash Player Version Penetration

Worldwide Ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player by Version

http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html

Adobe Flash Player Version Check

You need to know what version you're running, and so do your testers. Sharing this link is an easy way to get people to upgrade.

Under "Adobe Flash Player" roll over "About"

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/

Archived Flash Players Available for Testing Purposes

You can download archived Adobe Flash Players from the Adobe website. The archived versions are available specifically for Flash developers who are assessing their sites from the perspective of users with earlier versions of Flash Player.

http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_14266

ActionScriptCheatSheet

Adobe Flex Language Reference Cheatsheets. Adobe AIR Language Reference Cheatsheets. ActionScript 3.0 Language Reference Cheatsheets. Papervision3D API Cheatsheets.

http://www.actionscriptcheatsheet.com/

SWFObject

SWFObject is an easy-to-use and standards-friendly method to embed Flash content, which utilizes one small JavaScript file.

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

SWFAddress

SWFAddress is a small, but powerful library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax.

http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/

TweenLite

A Lightweight (3K) and FAST Tweening Engine

http://blog.greensock.com/tweenliteas3/

Lee Brimelow's The Flash Blog

Lee is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash, Flex, and AIR developer communities, and his site is required reading.

http://theflashblog.com/

[ draw.logic ]

draw.logic is a great blog to help you keep up with actionscript-related releases and issues.

http://drawlogic.com/

... and ActionscriptAPIs

ActionScriptAPIs is an up to date resource tracking AS3 and AS2 application programming interfaces for Flash/Flex/AIR designers and programmers... and it's mine. I've been wanting to set this up for a while and thanks to Godaddy, Tumblr and a few spare hours another tiny site is born.

This entry was written by Dave, posted on July 24, 2008 at 9:28 pm, filed under Flash, Notes. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Papervision 2.0 BorgEffects – Flash Version

Yesterday I snagged Andy Zupko's super-amazing BorgEffects download which demos his new Effects branch for Papervision 2.0. It's very exciting stuff!

Since I'm not a big-time Flex user, I converted his borgEffects.as for use in the Flash IDE and decided to make it available for download. I thought it might be helpful to those struggling with Flex to Flash conversions.

Of course, I couldn't resist making a few changes by just messing around;

randomly changing the colorTransform settings onClick

using a different texture

changing the clippingPoint

etc...

To highlight the Flex to Flash diffs, I've commented my BorgEffects_flash.as like so:

// the FLEX WAY
//dae.load(XML(new shipAsset()), mats);
// the FLASH WAY
dae.load("cube.dae", mats);

To make it all hum, you'll need the latest build from the Papervision respository and be sure to point the BorgEffects_flash.fla Actionscript 3.0 Classpath to the class files in /branches/Effects/src.

Download the source files and have fun.

EDIT: I'm not sure exactly which revision of Great White this demo used, but since 2007 I'm sure a lot has changed. Proceed with caution!

This entry was written by Dave, posted on December 29, 2007 at 3:36 pm, filed under Articles, Design, Flash, Notes. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.

Band Trivia Update – Identify 270 Bands XLS and More

Since the original post I've gotten a whole slew of requests for this file and thankfully a friend of mine found the website that it came from. Without further ado, here are the links to the XLS, its answer key, and a challenging solo artist quiz too.

Group Artists Quiz:

http://mega-quiz.com/quizzes/others/Groups.xls

http://mega-quiz.com/quizzes/others/Groups_Answers.jpg

Solo Artists Quiz:

http://mega-quiz.com/quizzes/others/Solo%20Artists.xls

And the source page, with many other quizzes, is here:

http://mega-quiz.com/quizzes/others/others.php

Enjoy!

This entry was written by Dave, posted on July 7, 2007 at 8:03 am, filed under Notes. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.