Flash

Found at neowin.net about some cool info about M$ Sparkle which is unveiled at M$ PDC 05. Sparkle is a part of the Expression Suite, which contains total three applications: Acrylic.  Very impressive tools for isolating head shots for instance. It’s not just a Photoshop clone. Sparkle. Let’s designers create interfaces without having to write code. Avalon (WPF) templates can be used to change the overall look and feel of …

Macroemdia has release Studio 8 products. All of them are now available for download as trial or you can grab your registered copy. download trials from here // chall3ng3r //

On September 8 2005, Macromedia announced Flash Media Server 2 previously known as Flash Communication Server. It will be available for public beta testing soon. thats great news ;) Read the full press release here New features in this release: High Quality VideoSupport for the new On2 VP6 codec offers superior video quality at smaller file sizes. Automatic Player DetectionEnsure a smooth viewing experience with video encoded in the right format by …

Wow, SW now available as free download from OSFlash. I downloaded and started my experiments, here’s the first one: http://fsd.webhostme.com/Downloads/FP8_SWTest.zip(swf file is not created by me, i just used it) As more objects move on stage/screen the movie gets too slower. but at least we get the thing working with FP8 out of the box ;) // chall3ng3r //

…and the genie awakes! http://bink.nu/Article4732.bink M$ Sparkles again after 2 years, lets see what it turns out to be! // chall3ng3r //

i have just noticed that the install badge for FP8 beta install never shows which version & build is going to be installed. i just sent the following feedback to the MM team ===========================The beta player installation badge at following link http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/public_beta/ displays the full version and build for the currently installed FP, but it never tells which version & build is available and will be installed. i suggest you …

I have learned from http://www.vanrijkom.org/ that ScreenWeaver is going to be Open Source, great news for most Flash developers. ScreenWeaver is one of my favorite exe2swf tool, and I’ve been using it for quite long time. I am sure the product will evolve into something more cool and feature rich. Keep visiting http://www.vanrijkom.org/ and www.screenweaver.com for further developments. // chall3ng3r //

I have just decompiled the tour swf (featuretour_shell.swf) using SWFDecompiler. what I found was very interesting that the guy who made all this is checking totalframes property of the holder_mc which holds the loaded swf. The developer didn’t used a tricky logic here, selected simple old way to detect movie loaded condition. He will be experiencing no errors because he has checked it on LAN or on broadband connection. But on …

Well, as expected. It’s here // chall3ng3r //