Flash has rise to more full-blown Web application

This will dramatically enhance the development process as well as cut down the time it takes to main-tain and debug Flash applications. No longer "just an animation tool," as it has been labeled in the past, the new Flash has given rise to more full-blown Web applications that utilize Flash as the front end with a powerful application server like ColdFusion as the back end. Long gone (I'm hoping) are the days of useless intros, so let's make a conscious effort to start pushing Flash MX application development to its limits! ActionScript allows the developer to harness the power of modular, object-oriented code that can control all aspects of a Flash movie. We'll take a look at a Flash application that utilizes components, gathers user input, and passes this information to be handled by CF. Let's get started. The purpose of this application is to become familiar with some new Flash MX components along with a few of their methods. Not only that, we'll see how simple it is to

Together, Macromedia and DoubleClick have developed a new method of pursuing Click-Events on FLASH banners. With the help of the Click-Tracking command line, it can be determined how often a Flash banner has been clicked, while also directing the user to a prescribed URL. Up to now, this command line has been directly coded as a command in the Flash Movie (SWF file). The disadvantage of the old method is that the FLASH file has to be sent back to the design agency every time a change is made to the URL. The new method shown here - only available in FLASH 4 and above - uses variables to incorporate the Click-Tracking command line into the Flash Film. The result is that, instead of the FLASH file itself, only the variable in the Rich Media field of the DoubleClick DART system need be changed. Should the target URL of the Click-Event have changed, the Flash file need not be sent back to the designer. The diagrams included here show the user screen in Flash 4 or Flash 5 with our

Innovative email advocacy campaign features humorous Matrix-like scenario putting farm animals against factory farm machine to protect dream of sustainable food (New York, NY), October 7, 2003 - A wittily amusing 2-minute FlashT movie called The Meatrix will hit thousands of email inboxes nationwide on November 3 as part of an email advocacy campaign led by GRACE (Global Resource Action Center for the Environment) to entertain and educate the public on the environmental and health risks of factory farming while encouraging support of sustainable food production. The Meatrix was created by Free Range Graphics (www.freerangegraphics.com), a design firm serving non-profit advocacy groups, as part of its annual Free Range Graphics Flash Grant, which was awarded this year to the GRACE Factory Farm Project. Moopheus goes on to uncover the "real world," The Meatrix, a panorama of greedy agribusiness corporations replacing small family farms; of unhealthy conditions,

Connected Home Media Kit

Think of the consumer who wanders through Best Buy or Circuit City, gazing at all the latest high-tech products gleaming on the shelves, dreaming about owning a few of these toys, but not understanding the first thing about them. These consumers need guidance and reassurance: They need to know that the products they're considering are the right products for their home or office. Connected Home Magazine is for consumers who want and need to learn about new technologies, including: Audio/Video Digital Imaging Mobile Electronics Wireless Communications Home Networking Home Theater Gaming Emerging Technologies Every day, Connected Home covers the technologies that can cause confusion in the home, whether it's wireless networking, home-theater audio formats, plasma vs. LCD TVs, gaming over the Internet, or simply the latest and greatest consumer-electronic toys. Connected Home guides readers through today's electronic maze. The only standardized ad product on the web today, a

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- If ads use Flash or Shockwave, the ad must sniff for the plug-in, and if it is not present, serve a gif. - Alternate Gif: 15-20K for Static or Animated GIFs. Animated GIFs cannot loop more than three times with a refresh time of no less than two seconds. All units should have default images in place for users who are not flash enabled. A TomBoy ad may contain any combination of messaging or imagery---video, audio, animation, Flash®, Java, GIF, JPEG. TowelBoy Upon initial page load, a TowelBoy ad snaps open, exposing the user to a larger html, Gif, or Flash message space. - Total File Size: 2.0 megabytes o Unicast suggests creating a light Flash Trailer, recommended size 100k, reserving the majority of the file size for the compressed video file. The Flash Trailer is not required for this ad unit. - Flash Trailer Screen Display Size: 900 x 500 pixels o Set the flash movie to a fixed stage size of 900 x 500 using the set scale = no size function.

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Though it's been a good 10 years since the first online pressrooms were established, far too many of them still seem as if they were designed more to aggravate reporters than to help them - and many of the problems are the same as they've always been. "Some company websites seem to be set up specifically not to provide certain contact infor-mation in terms of phone num-bers or addresses," says Bill Kisliuk, managing editor of The Napa Valley (CA) Register. "Recently I was on the website of a company that was doing business in this area, and my only option was to send them an e-mail, which I wasn't about to do because I was on deadline." Other pet peeves of reporters include pressrooms loaded with Flash animation or graphics that might charm consumers but frustrate someone on deadline. "Nobody wants to see tap-dancing bears in a pressroom," notes Mike Spataro, EVP and head of Weber Shandwick's web relations group. "We've talked to enough reporters to know they want things
BCI develops customized, turnkey e-mails designed to effectively and efficiently promote products and programs to eye care professionals, from text-based to HTML e-mails that incorporate Flash video and animation. - Detailed written report of e-mails viewed, click-throughs on links and, if applicable, video starts E-Mail Research BCI executes online surveys of eye care professionals that feature instant web-based reporting, enabling companies to quickly and efficiently measure perception of everything from their latest line of products to their Internet services. E-Mail Survey Instrument Development - Unlimited access to a web-based reporting tool that provides instant responses and tracking data Advertising on BCI publication web sites provides your company with exposure in a growing online resource for optical dis-pensers. The Eyecare Business, Contact Lens Spectrum, Optometric Management and Ophthalmology
This brief tutorial illustrates necessary steps to convert a PowerPoint presentation into a Macromedia Flash movie. Then we will discuss how to add a navigation bar to our new Macromedia Flash movie allowing users to browse our slides. Advantages Migrating a PowerPoint Presentation to Flash will allow users to watch your presentation using any computer--running Windows, Macintosh or Linux, only requiring a web browser with the Flash Player Plugin installed. Limitations PowerPoint animations and actions are lost with this approach, but they can be rebuilt once our presentation is imported to Flash. Background of PowerPoint presentations is also lost, but it can be easily imported into Flash. Importing WMF files into Flash A PowerPoint presentation is an 800x600 show, so we have set our Flash movie dimensions to 800x600. From (Flash MX) or Movie (Flash 5). Flash will detect the images sequence, and we must confirm to import all of the images in the sequence by clicking on the

Joel McKinney Student Images

This selection covers work in sculpture, interactive design, and animation. User takes on role of "Johnny Water" and interacts with various chemicals found in the lab, results depend on the chemical, sodium, for instance, or sodium chloride for animation, the project involves an animated Dr. Hilpert interviewing me about my SCORM research. The video can be accessed from my website www.northern.edu/mckinney projects, Jeremy and Katrina Knebel took a directed study sculpture class from me at USD and studied a variety of jewelry techniques Flash, three views are shown, in each one the user can control the RGB (red, green, and blue) values of the vector part of the image avid psuedo-tag artist and this is his first attempt at converting 2D characters to 3D models. Since this was taken he has been doing a lot of work with urethane and silicone rubber molds and casting both wax and plastic copies of his characters 20. Jeremy Swanston: Flash animation, Jeremy created this animation

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Please call 773.862.5331 for any up-to-date changes in our schedule. No. of youth: 6-10 Instructor: Soothesuk Kusumpa Room: Tech Studio Combine the medium of Hollywood movies with the personal stories that you have always wanted to tell. The time you ate five thousand olives, or the time you stood up for what you believed in. We will manipulate the mainstream to help strengthen your story. We will analyze why the mainstream tells a different story than you. Your story will be shot onto video using various documentary/ experimental techniques, and we will capture the actual movies through dubbing and importing them alongside your footage. FEMALE ACTION VOICING CHANGE Phase One No. of youth: 5 Instructor: Cindy Kudelka Room: Tuesday-Audio lab Thursday-Tech Studio An intensive year long media arts apprenticeship for young women who are interested in being trained as media arts instructors. Workshop participants will utilize advance Photoshop and Flash animation to
Similar to Java, Macromedia Flash is another technology that allows animations, interactive forms, games and other jazzed-up features to be embedded in web pages. Over the releases of new versions of Flash, Macromedia has made Flash more and more controllable via programming, where they have it positioned as a competitor to HTML to build interactive web sites and applications such as an e-commerce store. 1. Flash movies load faster and saves on download time because Flash is vector based where as HTML raster. New Flash users should read this chapter in detail to understand the core elements of Flash. This chapter is for getting the flavour of Flash in context and a kick start in understanding the core Flash environment. You can adjust the size of the Stage (and thus the size of the Flash window onscreen when the animation is complete) by using the Property Inspector. To understand frames in Flash, it helps to understand the process of traditional animation.
We are going to make a flash animation that asks the user to answer a yes/no question (e.g. "Did the first Harley Davidson Motorcycle use a tomato sauce can for a carburator?") and then, depending on the answer, displays a "Correct" or "Incorrect" animation. Display the animation that depends on the user's answer. Note that we have just created a infinite loop here: Frame 1 initialises the animation and executes only once, Frame 2 is the body of the loop, and Frame 3 is the end of the loop. Try this and you should see that "Beginning animation" is only printed out when the user enters a correctly spelt answer (either "yes" or "no"). Step 2: Branching to the animations Create two different animations (e.g. a tween will do), one for "correct" from frame 4 to frame 13 on the Animations layer, and one for "incorrect" between frame 14 and frame 23. The idea is that when the animations are complete, flash will return to the loop that we created in Step 1. Your flash program

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We teach the cool stuff! Macromedia Flash MX 2004: Rich Media Design provides students with no prior Flash experience the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to create rich media containing animation, sound, and video. Who Should Attend: This course is for people new to Flash (or who have used it only to o Prerequisites: his course is for people new to Flash (or who have used it only t build applications) that want to use it to build rich media applications that effectively use animation, sound, and video. Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require stu-dents to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving ﬁ les, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every rea-sonable effort to help, students with insufﬁ cient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class. - Document structure - Actions and ActionScript Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Flash MX Build interactive content that will make your Web site come alive using Flash's drawing, tweening, animation and audio capabilities. Produce Flash movies with animation tools, including symbols Create frame by frame animation Add sound to your site Publish and export the flash movie Flash MX: Advanced Design Features Learn the Flash Workspace Create Timeline and Animation Design frame-by-frame animation Creating images with Flash Adding fills and gradients Adding text Using layers Importing bitmaps Converting images to symbols Creating simple frame by frame animation Creating a motion tween Creating motion along a path Rotating an object Creating shape tweens Animating masks Creating a movie clip Creating buttons Adding frame and button actions Adding sound to the movie Publishing the Atlantis Underwater Adventures site Perform Motion Tweening Create a motion tween Perform motion tweening along a path Rotate an image with motion tweening Create seamless animation

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Macromedia Flash is a program that can be sued to create animations and web sites. This tutorial will focus on the animation uses of Flash. What is the instructional challenge that a Flash animation can help to clarify or illustrate? An advantage of creating Flash animations is that they can "illustrate" the educational content. In addition to the basic elements and toolbar in Flash, when editing text, buttons or graphics in Flash, various "Panels" can be opened and use to modify settings. As you work with Flash, there can be many windows and panels open at a time. It's a good practice to keep the different elements of a Flash movie on separate layers. When you select them singly, Flash highlights the layer you are working on. The final step of creating a Flash movie, is to "publish" to a Flash movie file that can be played from a web page.
In this tutorial we will create a simple Flash animation in order to show you the potential of the Mediator 7 software. Since we are going to create a simple Flash animation, select the `Flash' radio button and then click `Next.' Quite often you will want a Flash element smaller than 640x480, in which case you need to select `Custom' and enter the size you require (e.g. 400x300). In Flash mode the Toolbox bar has the following functions. The `Animation Path Tools' bar should appear horizontally on the screen. Every time you click the mouse in the work area a new node is added to the animation path. When you have finished, click on the green tick on the right-hand side of the `Animation Path Tools' bar to complete the path. We shall now add a button to start our flash animation. Click the `Preview' button and Internet Explorer will start and your Flash animation will be displayed as it would appear on a webpage.
4. Using Flash to do some statistical analyses The ﬁrst permutation tests were executed using a simple press button interface on data already entered into the program: 5. Interactive Flash 8. Making a whole Flash movie with several scenes This involved making complete storyboards containing the concepts and how they were illustrated as well as joining the scenes together. 9. Writing Flash actionscript programs to analyze data More ambitious students programmed with actionscript. Bootstrap of a Regression(2000 Elections) Enter ones own data and analyze it, as in this bootstrap ﬂash animation, written by Anita Lillie shows. As homeworks and ﬁnal projects, we asked the students to write their own animations to illustrate some of the concepts we did in class: Matt Law's correlation Roberto Fernandez' outlier Dina Leyte's movie Danny Jacobs' Shakespeare Bootstrap Rob Fernandez' ﬁnal project Flash Actionscripts None of these students wanted to use spreadsheets or statistical
This tutorial will cover the process of adding music including and on/off switch to a banner for a website. This banner has been simplified so the focus can be just on adding and controlling the sound/music. Feel free to add any other Flash effects to the banner as you follow along. Preparation Before heading into Flash it is a good idea to have an idea of the dimensions the final product needs to be and have the mp3 music file handy. Overview It can even animate onto the banner (if wanted). Open a new document in Flash and make the dimensions 770 by 100. Of course you could now add a bunch more animation to the rest of the banner if desired.

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