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20 Flash Resources and Tools You’ll Want

20 Flash Resources and Tools You’ll Want

Aug 23, 2008

TweenLite – The fastest tweening engine available – see this test. Only 3K in size and is available for AS3 and AS2. For filters see the TweenFilterLite engine. Papervision3D – A 3D engine for displaying simple elements from cubes to complex models and interactive materials. The most popular 3D engine available for Flash. Still in beta, but...

Free Flash XML Banner Rotator

Free Flash XML Banner Rotator

Jun 25, 2008

So everyone needs an XML Banner in Actionscript 2 and honestly I am kind of tired of making them over and over again. I would rather work on something big and beautiful. You can use this for whatever you want. It reads off of an XML where you can set it to show them in random order, set the time the banners have to show and other such features. View Demo Here is...

Flash iTunes Cover Flow – Version 2

Flash iTunes Cover Flow – Version 2

Sep 25, 2007

So, people have been commenting a lot on the iTunes Cover Flow. Mostly they are good comments, but there were a few suggestions. I made one suggestion that seemed to make sense and was very easy to implement. New Feature: -Link based on XML for the Artist and the Album. If no link is given then the button is disabled. -Link is placed on the actual text of the...

Flash iTunes Cover Flow

Flash iTunes Cover Flow

Sep 13, 2007

Hey Everyone, Love Apple? Love iTunes? Love looking at all your albums in your iTunes in a sense of accomplishment. Now you can do it in flash. Great way to show off those piece of work or just have a photo album. I hope someday someone takes this and hooks it up with an API to some music service. That would be amazing. Anyways here is the example and then the...