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Resources for Learning and Using Flash
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Adobe downloads page English
Adobe downloads page German
Adobe downloads page French
Adobe downloads page Italian
Adobe tutorials list: Extensive list of Flash tutorials
IX Online Magazine tutorial: Tutorial on Flash MX (in German)
Built-in Flash tutorials: Delivered with Flash: Help menu > Lessons or Tutorials
Flash Documentation: Product manuals, release notes, tutorials
We're Here website: Flash website: articles, tutorials, forums, etc.
Scripting, Using Flash with Databanks: Tutorials, source code, links - mainly about "data driven" Flash
Flash Charting Components: Tutorial on using charting components with data from an XML document
Flashworker website: Auf Deutsch - Tutorials, fla-Downloads, Links, und und und…
Actionscript.org Tutorials: List of tutorials sorted by difficulty
XML Tutorial: Very good and simple introduction to using XML with Flash
"How-to" Demos made by Adobe: The On Demand program offers quick info on many Adobe products
ActionScript Toolbox: Samples, tutorials, resources, etc. specific to ActionScripting. Includes SVG information also.
Adobe Flash Developer Center: Good address for programming with Flash
Using mySQL and PHP with Flash Tutorial: Build an address book using PHP and MySQL with Flash
FlashDeveloper.nl tutorial list: List of sites with tutorials, lots of good addresses
Hello World with Flash remoting using AMFPHP: Tutorial on using AMFPHP to use Flash with PHP
Intro to the v2 component architecture: Want to build your own component?
Character Animation: Excellent presentation by Chris Georgenes, pro animator
Intro to ActionScript 2.0: Excerpt from "Macromedia Flash MX 2004 ActionScript: Training from the Source" by Franklin and Makar
EML Labs: Articles and tutorials in 3 categories: Real World, Good Practice and Think Tank
Flash Video Development Center: Lots of articles and tutorials on flv (flash video)
Tile Based Games with Flash: Also available for download as pdf or doc file
How to embed Flash in Powerpoint: Getting your Flash animation inside a Powerpoint presentation
10 Minutes with Flash: A series of short tutorials for Flash from Robert Hoekman
Creating Accessible Content in Flash: from webaim.org, Web Accessibility in Mind
Mac Lab Flash Tutorials: MX 2004 Tutorials in Quicktime movie form, shown on Macintosh
Tutorials from Chris Georgenes: Animation tutorials, some as Breeze presentations (with audio)
Flasherdot: Tutorials and online courses for free
Shape Tweening Basics: Breeze presentation (demo with audio, click on Watch the Breeze seminar)
Moock Lectures: Lecture notes and sample files from Colin Moock's ActionScript workshops
adddvance flash: une communauté des médias flash
Adobe Flash page: Good starting point, many links to sites and tutorials
Adobe Support Center: Flash technical support and portal to other resources (English only)
Adobe France: Links to French user groups, forums, etc. (all MM products)
Adobe Germany: Links to German user groups, forums, etc. (all MM products)
Flash Documentation: Product manuals, release notes, tutorials
Adobe Italy: Links to Italian user groups, forums, etc. (all MM products)
Adobe Flash Developer Center: Good collection of articles and tutorials
Flash Technotes: Complete index of technotes on Flash. Check here first!
Adobe Flash page: Good starting point, many links to sites and tutorials
We're Here website: Flash website: articles, tutorials, forums, etc.
Flash Google group: Searchable version of macromedia.flash newsgroup
Flash newsgroup: news://macromedia.flash is an active and helpful newsgroup (fast replies, over 100 messages a day)
Flashkit: Lots of tutorials, forums, and articles on Flash
Scripting, Using Flash with Databanks: Tutorials, source code, links - mainly about "data driven" Flash
Flash Foren auf Deutsch: Mehrere Foren, alles auf Deutsch
Chatty Fig: Resources for ActionScripting: Mailing Lists, Searchable Archives, FlashcodersWiki, among others
FlashMX2004 Forum: Friendly forums on MX 2004
Flash Group & actionscripts[uk]: Forum for Actionscript.co.uk
adddvance flash: une communauté des médias flash
Adobe Flash page: Good starting point, many links to sites and tutorials
We're Here website: Flash website: articles, tutorials, forums, etc.
Flashkit: Lots of tutorials, forums, and articles on Flash
Scripting, Using Flash with Databanks: Tutorials, source code, links - mainly about "data driven" Flash
E-Learning Center for Adobe products: Articles, tutorials, white papers and examples of elearning using Adobe products
Learning Object Development Center: Various white papers and a sample application using Adobe products to create elearning objects
Flashworker website: Auf Deutsch - Tutorials, fla-Downloads, Links, und und und…
Colin Moock Website: Author of ActionScript the Definitive Guide provides files, tips, Flash detector…
Chatty Fig: Resources for ActionScripting: Mailing Lists, Searchable Archives, FlashcodersWiki, among others
ActionScript Toolbox: Samples, tutorials, resources, etc. specific to ActionScripting. Includes SVG information also.
Adobe Flash Developer Center: Good address for programming with Flash
Action Script Prototype Extensions: Custom code to enhance Flash's built-in objects
ActionScript.org: Tutorials, source files, components, forums etc.
Flash Video Gallery: Source files for mostly commercial examples of Flash videos
FlashDeveloper.nl: Dutch site in English with lots of developer resources
EML Labs: Articles and tutorials in 3 categories: Real World, Good Practice and Think Tank
FlashWeek: actionscript.com: Articles, tutorials, news. Nice, clean, easy to read look.
Flash Video Development Center: Lots of articles and tutorials on flv (flash video)
Swftools.com: Website dedicated to listing third party tools for Flash files (swf)
Flasherdot: Tutorials and online courses for free
FlashMove: Tutorials, forums, blog, etc.
Flash Reference Guide: Lots and lots of articles/tutorials from beginner to advanced, for designers and developers
Open Source Flash: Community-run resource site for open source Flash projects and tools
Adobe on eLearning: Deutsch
Flash MX Learning Interactions: Français
Adobe on eLearning: English
ActionScript Coding Standards: Good sense advice about coding with ActionScript - NB: some parts apply only to ActionScript 1.0 !
the edge newsletter (November 2002): This issue has interesting pieces on online learning and passing variables in and out of Flash
E-Learning Center for Adobe products: Articles, tutorials, white papers and examples of elearning using Adobe products
Learning Object Development Center: Various white papers and a sample application using Adobe products to create elearning objects
Usability and Testing Resources: Flash Developer Center Section on Usability and Testing
Jacob Nielsen on Flash Usability: Insight from the usability guru
Using the browser's back button from Flash: DevNet Article on how this is done (not simple, but possible)
Introduction to ActionScript 2.0 - Part 1: A look at the changes in ActionScript brought by version 2.0
Introduction to ActionScript 2.0 - Part 2: Second part of an introduction to ActionScript 2.0
Introduction to OOP in Flash and ActionScript - Part 1: Valid for Flash MX, not for MX 2004 and ActionScript 2.0
Introduction to OOP in Flash and ActionScript - Part 2: Valid for Flash MX, not for MX 2004 and ActionScript 2.0
Introduction to ActionScript 2.0 - Part 3: Part 3 of Joey Lott's introduction to ActionScript: 2.0: Inheritance and Interfaces
Migrating from Flash MX to Flash MX 2004: An overview of the main differences between MX and MX 2004
MS Internet Explorer - Changes to ActiveX Controls: How to circumvent a dialogue box that may appear in Internet Explorer with pages using Flash
Creating Accessible Content in Flash: from webaim.org, Web Accessibility in Mind
Depths - how they work in Flash: Very good article explaining the different depth zones in Flash.
Design-nation.blog/en: Interesting blog entries on ActionScript and design patterns, among other things
Flash Player Detection Best Practices: For Flash 8
Swift 3D: Create 3D vector graphics for Flash
ISYS Search Software for Flash: Search Flash files
FontsForFlash: Pixel fonts created specifically for Flash
SitePal: Create a talking head for your web page
Flash Authoring in Linux: Using CrossOver Officeâ„¢ it's now possible to create Flash on Linux systems
Flash Plug-in Switcher: For developing with several different plug-in versions (Site is in German, help pages in English)
URL Action Editor 4.0: Utility that allows editing of URL-related actions in swf files. (Windows only)
Wild FX Text Animations: Create distracting text animations in Flash format
Flix SE Video Encoder: Convert video, audio and image files into Flash format (swf or flv)
Javadoc style documentation generator for ActionScript: Tool that generates documentation for ActionScript (open source project)
PowerPoint to Flash Converters: A list of various converters with comparisons of features.
Flash Studio Pro: Powerful swf to exe converter
Zoomify: Zoom in on jpeg images
Regular Expressions for Flash 5, MX and MX 2004: Classes for working with regular expressions in ActionScript.
FlashLoaded Components: Lots of components available, some free, most low cost.
Swish: A variety of tools for creating or converting Flash files
FLV Player: A standalone Flash Video player for testing your flv files
Vertical Moon: Generators for preloaders, text animations and slideshows
Third party extensions for Flash: List of extensions to use directly within the Flash authoring tool
Action Script Viewer: ActionScript decompiler
Sothink: Flash decompiler
AS2Doc Professional 1.0.0: Documentation generator for ActionScript 2 based classes
Riva FLV Encoder: Transcode AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, WMV formats into FLV format
Flash Jester: Tools for creating projectors, screen savers et cetera
Ghostwire Studios: Open source PHP Flash Remoting, UI Components, Duplicate Library Folder JSFL Extension
AMFPHP: Flash Remoting for PHP
Swftools.com: Website dedicated to listing third party tools for Flash files (swf)
AS2Doc Professional 1.0.0: Documentation generator for ActionScript 2 based classes
MTASC Motion-Twin ActionScript Compiler: Open source compiler for ActionScript 2.0
Timeline Creator: Tool for creating a historical timeline
Flash Decompiler 2.0: Swf to fla and more, single user lisence € 46.95
slideshow pro: A V2 Component for $20.-
Imperator FLA: Swf to fla converter
Open Source Flash: Community-run resource site for open source Flash projects and tools
xleff: XML Layout engine for Flash
Sandy: ActionScript 2.0 3D API, intuitive and user friendly library for 3D object manipulation in Flash