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04 April 2007

Adobe Flash CS3 Professional


Top features

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator import
Import Adobe® Photoshop® (PSD) and Adobe Illustrator® (AI) files, while preserving layers and structure, and then edit them in Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional. Optimize and customize the files during import with advanced options.

Frame-based timeline
Quickly add motion to your creations with the easy-to-use, highly controllable, frame-based timeline inspired by traditional animation principles such as keyframing and tweening.

Shape primitives
Easily create pie wedges, round off rectangle corners, define an inner circle radius, and do much more. Visually adjust shape properties on the stage. And create custom shapes with the included JavaScript API.

ActionScript 3.0 development
Save time with the new ActionScript™ 3.0 language, featuring improved performance, increased flexibility, and more intuitive and structured development.

Sophisticated video tools
Create, edit, and deploy streaming and progressive-download FLV content with comprehensive video support. Ensure the best video experience with a standalone video encoder, alpha channel support, a high-quality video codec, embedded cue points, video import support, QuickTime import, closed captioning, and much more.

MP3 audio support
Integrate audio into your projects by importing MP3 files. Integration with Adobe Soundbooth™ makes it easy to edit files as needed, without requiring audio production experience.

Rich drawing capabilities
Visually adjust shape properties on the stage with smart shape drawing tools, create precise vector illustrations with the new Pen tool inspired by Adobe Illustrator, paste illustrations from Illustrator CS3 into Flash CS3, and more.

Extensible architecture
Leverage the Flash application programming interfaces (APIs) to easily develop extensions that add custom functionality.

Convert animation to ActionScript
Instantly convert timeline animations into ActionScript 3.0 code that can be easily edited, reused, and leveraged by developers. Copy animations from one object to another.
Device Central

Adobe Device Central
Design, preview, and test mobile device content using Adobe Device Central CS3, now integrated throughout Adobe Creative Suite® 3. Create and test interactive applications and interfaces viewable with Flash Lite™ software.

See all features

10 March 2007

Actionscript Physics Engine - APE

APE (Actionscript Physics Engine) is an AS3 open source 2D physics engine for use in Flash and Flex. It’s continuation of the long dormant AS2 Flade project. APE is written and maintained by Alec Cove.


features

CircleParticles
- fixed or non-fixed
- variable mass, elasticity, and surface friction

RectangleParticles
- rotatable
- fixed or non-fixed
- variable mass, elasticity, and surface friction
- corner particles that can be attached to other particles with SpringConstraints

WheelParticles
- traction and angular velocity
- fixed or non-fixed
- variable mass, elasticity, and surface friction
- edge particles that can be attached to other particles with SpringConstraints

SpringConstraints
- stiffness
- collidable or non-collidible
- collidable constraints have variable width and scale

Licensing
- non restrictive LGPL

See APE site here.

06 March 2007

Total Training Flash Lite DVD


Total Training Flash Lite DVD Excerpts on Adobe.com

Adobe.com have posted some excerpts from my recently released training DVD - Total Training for Adobe Flash Lite 2.1 : Creating Mobile Applications.
You can find the tutorials in the Flash Lite Dev Centre.You can watch video samples from the "Handling Device Keypress Events" section, featuring topics like:

Adding ActionScript 2.0 to control soft keys
Creating a global key listener
Defining key functions
Changing visual content on key events

Enjoy!

21 October 2006

Flash Player 9 Update for Linux and Vista

Flash Player beta downloads are now available for the Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ and Linux platforms.

This is a prerelease version of the Adobe® Flash® Player 9 Update software for various platforms. It is being made available for developers and consumers to test their content to ensure existing content plays back correctly and that there are no compatibility issues.