Tech Bite created and is sharing a Flash script that will allow you to upload multiple files to server. It is very easy to implement and can be very useful for lots of projects.

I haven’t tested it myself however I believe it is working fine.

Get the code here at Tech Bite

If you’re dealing with performance problems when loading lots of data to Flash Player, you will be happy to read this article by Jesse Warden, this matter is discussed and tips are shared to get better performance dealing with both. Jesse talks about not so practical methods and finally explains what works better for him. Should read.

Grant Skinner created a more lightweight class named GTweeny based on the original GTween class. The new class is under 3Kb and Grant Skinner is looking for feedback about it. There’s a cool image gallery developed using this class and it is a good example how this class can be useful for you.

A potential vulnerability has been identified in the current flash player version 10.0.12.36, you are advised to update to the newest version 10.0.22.87.

Know More

Download Adobe Flash Player

Just before I close my Notebook I will leave here a cool info. GSkinner has created a nice contest for everyone where you can actually win a free copy of Flash CS4.

Via GSkinner.com:

“You can check out the #tweetcoding page for full details, but here is a quick overview. You are provided with a framework of 140 characters of “gimme” code. To this, you can add up to 140 characters of additional AS3 code. You submit your entry via Twitter, and if your work is judged as the best, you win a full copy of Flash CS4.”

Good Luck!

Have all a nice weekend. See you Monday, or sooner

webresourcesdepot.com has posted 10 actionscript libraries / classes which are not so famous has Papervision, Flare and others.

These are also very useful and you will for sure enjoy to meet some of them.

The list includes:

Playr (AS3 music player class)
flXHR (Flash solution that mimics Ajax by a XMLHttpRequest compatible interface)
KitchenSync (focused on sequencing animations and other time-based actions)
AnimationPackage (AS3 library for creating powerful, maintainable animations and primitive shapes)
Flint (Flash library for creating particle based effects)
AsWing (making Flash application UIs easily)
ActionScript Page Flip Class (create the famous page flip effect)
ASZip (zipping with Flash)
FZip (loading, modifying and creating standard ZIP archives)
AS3Crypto (cryptography library that supports common algorithms like AES, DES, MD5 & more)

Joseph Balderson posted a must see article at communitymx.com explaining the basics and issues you may find when to convert your Actionscript 1 and 2 projects to the last version Actionscript 3.

So, of you have some project you would like to upgrade and don’t know where to start I believe this is the place to take a look.

Press Connect is a script created by Tim Wilson that will allow you to connect your Flash Website with WordPress Content. After integrating the database the script returns everything via XML.

Tim also made available his .fla from his site and you are free to buy if you want. The press connect script is available to download for free.

Tim Wilson Lab

“IBM has released a new version of its AppScan product with new capabilities to scan and test Adobe Flash and Flex applications for vulnerabilities. The tool can also be used to test AJAX technology. IBM says the goal is to help developers better secure dynamic, Web 2.0 sites.”

Press Release

graphicmania.net has posted a list of some of the best Flash components you can get, all of those are free. There are really cool applications that you can use in your projects, using those for sure will increase the value of it.

The list includes image galleries, flv players and map components.

I must say that I am absolutely impressed with the following demo posted by Ryan Stewart at his blog with a FLARToolKit Demo video done at Max Japan.

You can play with this application also, just visit Ryan Stewart blog and follow all the cool links related to this library.

FLARToolKit Demo from Ryan Stewart on Vimeo.

Sujit Reddy has created an AS3 library for Google Calendar which includes:

1. Authenticating to the Calendar service
2. Retrieving calendar lists
3. Retrieving all calendars
4. Retrieving only calendars that a user owns
5. Managing calendars
6. Creating new calendars
7. Updating existing calendars
8. Deleting calendars
9. Retrieving events for a specified date range
10. Creating single-occurrence events
11. Updating events
12. Deleting events
13. Reminders and Notifications

At Sujit weblog you will see how to implement the library and the link to download.

By: http://www.designscripting.com/2009/01/20/using-faderfilematerial-to-create-slideshow

The aim of this tutorial is to create slideshow using the FaderAPI.

FaderAPI that I released last week can be used to create Flash Slideshow within few steps. FaderAPI contains Fader Class and FaderFileMaterial classes to load and animate external Image and SWF files.

Features:
Some exciting features of the Slideshow are as follows

• Ability of handling Image and SWF together.
• SWF may also be an animated file.
• No Need of Preloader- Since the animation will not happens until the next file is loaded.
• Customized events to handle the Slideshow

Difficulty:
Beginners to Medium

FaderFileMaterial:

Here we are going to use the FaderFileMaterial to create slideshow.
FaderFileMaterial is a Class under FaderAPI, to load external contents like Image, SWF and animate them.
Now this makes the loading external content easier and animating them.

Steps to create Slideshow using Actionscript:

Import External Classes:

import com.utils.Fader.*;
import com.utils.Fader.FaderURL;
import com.utils.Fader.Events.*;

Importing the external classes makes the external classes available to use in Code.

Create FaderURL:

var _faderURLItems:FaderURL = new FaderURL();
_faderURLItems.addURL( "Images/image1.jpg" );
_faderURLItems.addURL( "Images/image2.jpg" );
_faderURLItems.addURL( "Images/image3.jpg" );
_faderURLItems.addURL( "Images/image4.jpg" );
_faderURLItems.addURL( "Images/image5.jpg" );
_faderURLItems.addURL( "SWF/swf1.swf" );

Create object for FaderURLItems, FaderURLItems are used as stack to store URLS of the external files.
addURL is public method of FaderURLItems to push URL into FaderURLItems Object. Later we will fetch URL one by one to load the external files.

Create FaderFileMaterial:

var _fader:FaderFileMaterial = new FaderFileMaterial( _faderURLItems, 5000, true );
_fader.addEventListener( ObjectEvent.FADER_INIT, handleInit );
_fader.addEventListener( ObjectEvent.FADER_ITEM_INIT, handleItemInit );
_fader.addEventListener( ObjectEvent.FADER_ITEM_PROGRESS, handleItemProgress );
_fader.addEventListener( ObjectEvent.FADER_ITEM_COMPLETE, handleItemComplete );
_fader.addEventListener( ObjectEvent.FADER_COMPLETE, handleComplete );
addChild( _fader )
_fader.start();

FaderFileMaterial fades the loaded external items. We are passing the Object of FaderURLItems which contains the URLS, delay, and Boolean to repeat the slideshow at end to constructor of FaderFileMaterial

fader.start() will initiates the Slideshow.

Note:
Add the Fader Object to the displayList. This makes the slideshow visible.

Online Documents for Classes used

FaderURL
FaderFileMaterial

Entire Example:

import com.utils.Fader.*;
import com.utils.Fader.FaderURL;
import com.utils.Fader.Events.*;

var _faderURLItems:FaderURL = new FaderURL();
_faderURLItems.addURL( "Images/image1.jpg" );
_faderURLItems.addURL( "Images/image2.jpg" );
_faderURLItems.addURL( "Images/image3.jpg" );
_faderURLItems.addURL( "Images/image4.jpg" );
_faderURLItems.addURL( "Images/image5.jpg" );
_faderURLItems.addURL( "SWF/swf1.swf" );

var _fader:FaderFileMaterial = new FaderFileMaterial( _faderURLItems, 5000, true );
_fader.addEventListener( ObjectEvent.FADER_INIT, handleInit );
_fader.addEventListener( ObjectEvent.FADER_ITEM_INIT, handleItemInit );
_fader.addEventListener( ObjectEvent.FADER_ITEM_PROGRESS, handleItemProgress );
_fader.addEventListener( ObjectEvent.FADER_ITEM_COMPLETE, handleItemComplete );
_fader.addEventListener( ObjectEvent.FADER_COMPLETE, handleComplete );
addChild( _fader )
_fader.start();

function handleInit( e:ObjectEvent ):void{
 trace("::::::::::Fader Started:::::::::")
}
function handleItemInit( e:ObjectEvent ):void{
 trace("init:: "+e.targetObject)
}
function handleItemProgress( e:ObjectEvent ):void{
 trace("progress::"+_fader.loaderPercentage)
}
function handleItemComplete( e:ObjectEvent ):void{
 trace("complete:: "+e.targetObject)
}
function handleComplete( e:ObjectEvent ):void{
 trace(":::::::::Fader Complete:::::::::")
}

stop_mc.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, handleStop );
start_mc.addEventListener( MouseEvent.CLICK, handleStart );

function handleStop( e:MouseEvent ):void{
 _fader.stop();
}
function handleStart( e:MouseEvent ):void{
 _fader.start();
}

The Yahoo! UI Library got some new functionalities and now wrap ActionScript with JavaScript to allow charting capabilities without Adobe Flash or Flex.

Via http://cooldotnetstuff.wordpress.com

You Are Here is a small application developed by Manish Jethani. As Manish said this application is useless. Everyone should know where he is, however I agree when he says it can be a tiny example of how to use the Yahoo! Maps AS3 component.

All the source code is available, so if you have the curiosity to try and create something even cooler you can start by this application.

JADBOX has created a class which will allow you to use FlashVars between Flash and Flex the same way.

Take a look at his article FlashVars for EVERYONE!

iTunes app store is sharing Mike Chambers first application – “ActionScript 3 class reference for the iPhone ”

Get all the details at Mike Chambers blog.

Richard Galvan is reporting at his blog the efforts that Flash team is having to solve some common issues and errors with Flash CS4 IDE. If you know or have an issue about Flash CS4 that you would like to report you should do it also to Richard Galvan at the post.

Richard wrote that the Flash team is working now on:

Performance and stability:
- problems scrubbing the timeline while working on a very large project or with complex projects with a large number of nested symbols.
- difficulty opening large CS3 files with CS4.
- crashing when a corrupt font is inadvertently used.
- general performance issues and other reported crashes that are still being isolated.

Flash Help:
- it’s available only when you are online.
- Help now opens in a browser and not in the IDE.
- it opens a different browser window every time you hit F1.

Stage Rendering with Flash Player.

If you have any other issue or error you would like to share please do it at http://blogs.adobe.com/rgalvan/2009/01/concerns_and_issues_with_flash.html