Everyone wants to look like a pro and yet do it very easily. Here are just a few tools that help in not only the animation process, but also the displaying process of SWF files.
Animation Helpers:
Yes, it is getting old but it is still very useful for the ordinary and everyday kind of Actionscript animations.
In one line of code you can simply animate an object with a variety of animation presets with timing and post animation function calls.
Example:
myMovieClip.slideTo(300, 200, 1, "easeOutExpo", 2, saveState())
This example slides a movie clip to X:300, Y:200 in 1 second with an easeOutExpo animation preset (click here to see more presets) in two seconds from calling the instruction, then after the animation is over it will call the function named “saveState”.
You can see the power and versatility behind this extension. I use it all the time. The programmer has moved on two make an even better product called Tweener.
Not my favorite, but very powerful if you take the time.
SWF Loading Tools:
SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. It is also very search engine friendly, degrades gracefully, can be used in valid HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents*, and is forward compatible, so it should work for years to come.
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.
swfIR (swf Image Replacement) is here to solve some of the design limitations of the standard HTML image and its widely-accepted associated CSS values, while still supporting standards-based design concepts. Using the dark arts of JavaScript and Flash, swfIR gives you the ability to apply an assortment of visual effects to any or all images on your website. Through progressive enhancement, it looks through your page and can easily add some new flavor to standard image styling.
Please post any other awsome tools you have found for Flash development. I would love to discover new tools to make my job easier. : -)
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