Ashvin Savani “arckid” – Flash Platform Expert

All about RIA development using Flash, Flex, Flash Media Server (Flashcom) with various middleware and backends.

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Flash Player 7 Availability for Solaris

New Version is launched of Flash Player 7 for Solaris Platform. New Player have more improved security as well as performance.

get More info from here:

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  • swfImageProxy

    via http://www.quasimondo.com/

    Did you have the problem before that you wanted to load some file formats into your Flash site but loadMovie does not accept them? Something like PNGs, GIFs or progressive JPEGs? Do you want to load images or SWFs from a different domain but the security sandbox is in your way? For these purposes I have written swfImageProxy, a PHP script that automatically converts file formats that are usually indigestible for Flash into something that it can display. On top of that it acts a proxy and is able to download images from other domains.

    Here is a simple Flash demo that allows you to enter the URL of an image and swfImageProxy will try to retrieve and convert it.

    If you want to use the full functionality of the script your server will have to fulfill certain prerequisites:

    • For basic functionality you will at least need PHP with GD support.
    • If you want the conversion of progressive JPEGs to baseline optimized JPEGs to be lossless the script needs access to the jpegtran utility.
    • If you want to be able to read GIFs the minimum required version of GD is 2.0.28 which currently happens to be the latest version
    • If you want to preserve the transparency of PNGs and GIFs they have to be packaged as SWFs. For this purpose the png2swf utility from the excellent swftools package by Rainer B? and Matthias Kramm has to be installed

    You can download swfImageProxy here. Currently I have only tested this on Linux – if you are able to run this on Windows I’m happy to hear about it. I have tried to make this as secure as possible, but of course you use this on your own risk. It also looks like the png2swf tool does not fully support every format of PNGs yet.

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  • SolVE: Local Shared Object Viewer/Editor

    SolVE is a Local Shared Object View/Editor that runs on both Mac OS X and Windows. Coded in Java with IBM’s SWT, SolVE looks and behaves like a native application making transparent to the end user that Java is under the hood.

    Currently, SolVE supports the more common basic types but is still in development. When all of the data types are implemented, the source code will be released under the Common Public License. Please be patient while I build support for the other data types available in a local shared object file.

    Initial Announcement: http://www.darronschall.com/weblog/archives/000127.cfm

    More Information: http://www.darronschall.com/solve/

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  • Flash Movie Competition

    Via MM Forum Flash Ad Development Forum

    Made possible by Harlan M. Smith’s Builders of a Better World Fund

    Citizens for Global Solutions is holding a contest for students, budding artists,
    young graphic designers, and human rights activists who are interested
    in creating the best, most unique flash movie for the New Year. The top
    contenders will be published on our website!

    Contest Theme:
    In today’s interdependent world, our lives, our jobs and our families
    are increasingly affected by global problems, such as terrorism, climate
    change, war and infectious diseases. Because these problems are global
    in scope, it is vital that countries work together to solve them.

    Participants: Lay out your global problem and give us your global
    solution. How the U.S. should respond to your problem – you tell us. Be
    creative. Make an impact!

    Prizes:
    1st Place: $1000
    2nd Place: $500
    3rd Place: $250

    4th & 5th Place: Free 1-year membership
    Deadline: December 1, 2004

    More details at www.globalsolutions.org/flash.html

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  • BLDoc documentation tool released

    A New AS Documentation released. But still its in beta. Developed by Chafic.

    More Information about the tool is available here

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