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SWX is the native data format for Flash. Data is stored as SWF bytecode (you can't get more native than that on the Flash Platform) that is interpreted by the Flash Player. The SWX format is a subset of the SWF format (just like JSON is a subset of JavaScript).

The Akamai Media Framework is a valuable resource for the rapid development of video player applications using the Adobe Flash video format. The framework is a code library which leverages best practices and open technologies to simplify the task of creating Flash video player applications for streaming and progressive download of content created in Adobe Flash compatible video, including Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR. With a combination of the Framework, deployment techniques such as Content Management through Stream OS, and the Akamai delivery network, you can quickly implement a world-class solution for delivering Flash video content and provide audiences with a consistent, high-quality experience.

When the user downloads the web page, Open Flash Chart requests the chart data from the server. The server knows who the user is so it can generate a chart for that particular user showing up to the minute data.

Hi welcome to Flashmatics Library where I add snippets and applications as and when I create them. Everything is completely FREE so enjoy!! If you want something in particular let me know and I will keep that in mind when I add more stuff to my library.

Flashr is an ActionScript 2 wrapper for the Flickr API by Kelvin Luck. It makes it easy to develop Flash applications to display and interact with photos on flickr.com. You do not need to worry about the XML that flickr returns, you deal in sensible objects like Photos, Photosets and Persons.

Rich Media Project believes in Flash technology. That's why all of our team is committed to develop advanced Flash tools that let you create Rich Media contents with a lot of extended features. Our products are user-friendly, safe and labelled Macromedia Approved Extension. They will help you saving time, obtaining a competitive advantage with your site or presentations and positioning you or your company as a leader in your field.

SoundManager 2 is a Javascript Sound API which talks to Flash, effectively mapping most of Flash 8's native sound capabilities to Javascript.

On the heels of releasing version 5 of TweenLite and TweenFilterLite and investing a lot of time into optimizing performance, I figured I'd take a few minutes to throw together a tool that could demonstrate and quantify any speed differences among a few of the tweening engines out there. Now before you go writing nasty comments about the fact that I didn't include your favorite one, I KNOW! I just didn't have time to download them all, learn the syntax, and include them. Instead, my goal was to post the tool and let the Flash community add to it if they so desire. It should be pretty simple actually. Dowload the source file here: AS2 or AS3. No trickery involved; the same code drives everything except for the tweens themselves. Basically it tweens white "stars" from the center outward at random angles, sizes, and with random delays. When a star's tween ends, it just repositions itself at the center and starts again. You can play with the number of stars and the duration of the tweens to see how the tweening engines handle various types of loads.

Here you will find an ActionScript 2.0 class called the Particle class. This class allows you to create some pretty complex (and pretty damn cool) particle animations with minimal effort. The class adds several new properties and a whole bunch of new methods to any movie clip that you assign the class to. As this class is written in AS 2.0, you will need Flash MX 2004 to use it.

A requestor pops up asking for the new layer name, the new symbol name, and a choice between Graphic Symbol (default) or Movie Clip. If the name fields are left blank the default name will be used (ie Layer 1, Layer 2, Symbol 1, Symbol 2, etc

FitFlash is a smart script that resizes your flash automatically if your browser window size is smaller or greater than your flash minimum desired size keeping it accessible independent of screen resolution.

APE (Actionscript Physics Engine) is a free AS3 open source 2D physics engine for use in Flash and Flex, released under the MIT License. APE is written and maintained by Alec Cove.

Ever since the release of Flash 8, I’ve rarely published a Flash project with a HIGH stage quality. If you know why, then you can skim this post and leave me a high-five in the comments, if not then read on … So what’s stage quality I hear some of you asking? Well, you may of seen it feature within the default context menu of the Flash Player. And this small setting defines how certain elements are anti-aliased/smoothed within your Flash application.

You can download these players from the Adobe website. They are available specifically for Flash developers who are examining their sites from the perspective of users with earlier versions of Flash Player.

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I needed XmlRpc to work with Flex 2, so I got the one from mattism.com, and in the process of making it work with ActionScript 3.0 (it's written for 2.0) kind of gutted it (Ok, so I've only been working with this whole Flex/AS business for about a week and a half). The gutted part has to do with error/fault handling mostly (I was confused), and also with removing some of the interface/implementation business, sorry, an).

UFO is a DOM script that detects the Flash plug-in and embeds Flash objects (files with the .swf extension). It has its roots in the Web Standards community and is designed to support W3C standards compliant, accessible and search engine friendly web design. It also contains several features and best practice techniques that other scripts currently don't have.

Those trying workarounds to upload files in Flash in previous versions (like the Yamago component with all the cross-browser issues) will be finally happy: with Flash 8, native support exists! This example shows how to use the new FileReference class to upload a file to a server. Nothing difficult, but pay attention: you always need some server script yo store the file in the server. Flash can't upload the file by itself, and instead needs a back-end language to do the server side job.

I am working on ActionScript3 API for Bloglines services, which requires HTTP Authentication for its two of the services. I was not able to set the header of a HTTP/GET request. Macromedia Flash Player allows you set the header only for POST requests. I discussed this issues with Ted Patrick and he told me how I can us Socket to achieve the desired and he was very kind to give a me code-snippet, which got me started. Thanks Ted.

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The Google Map Flash 8 Component allows for easy map navigation and displays geographical locations with your markers, polylines, polygons and layers. This component uses Google Map Data by connecting to Google Maps API.

At MAX Peter Flynn of Adobe demoed how to make skins with transitions using Flash CS3 and some pre-created templates. For those who didn’t get to see the walk-through, or even for those who have, I thought I’d put together a little walk-through of my own.

A small javascript/flash library to get the best of both worlds - The great upload capabilitys of flash and the accessibility and ease of html/css

Here you'll find how to use sIFR on your website.

SimpleViewer is a free, customizable Flash image viewing application.

Embedding Adobe Flash content using SWFFix

A jQuery plugin for embedding Flash movies.

RIA pedia (pronouned ree-ah-pedia) is a site devoted to Rich Internet Applications. We're not talking Web 2.0 stuff, we're talking real applications developed with technologies like Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR.

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A script that enables deep linking for SWF applications. SWFAddress is a small script that sits on top of SWFObject and provides deep linking for Flash websites and applications. In other words it enables the Back, Forward and Reload buttons of the browser and creates unique URLs with page titles that can be sent over email or IM. SWFAddress uses the ExternalInterface functionality introduced in Flash Player 8 and comes with a technique that enables search engine indexing for deep Flash links.

MTASC is the first ActionScript 2 Open Source free compiler. It can compile large number of .as class files in a very short time and generate directly the corresponding SWF bytecode without relying on Macromedia Flash or other tools.

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