If you want to protect your work, DComSoft SWF Protector is a great encryption solution for your SWF files.
It’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux and it’s free to try. You get a fully functional copy when you download it.
The interface is really intuitive.
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You have customized your Aptana (or Eclipse) shortcuts and want to use them on another installation…
You may have noticed that the Keys screen offers the option to export the shortcuts as a CSV file, which may lead you to think that this is the way to do it.
It’s not.
In order to export and import shortcuts, you do it in the File->Export and File->Export menus.
Here‘s the full explanation.
A new tutorial – Image Generation with AS3 and PHP – is now available at FlashKit.
You’ll learn how to capture an image, a screen shot of a MovieClip in your Flash Application as BitmapData. You’ll learn how to encode this BitmaData properly in order to send it to the PHP Script that will generate and save the JPG image on your server.
The tutorial is available here.
A new tutorial – Passing URL variables into Flash using FlashVars and SWFObject – is now available at FlashKit.
You’ll learn how to pass variables from the URL into Flash, using SWFObject and FlashVars.
The tutorial is available here.
A new tutorial – Loading a different image each time using Local Shared Objects – is now available at FlashKit.
You’ll learn how to keep track of data from one visit to another using Local Shared Objects (LSO). You’ll also learn how to generate a random number to load images randomly.
The tutorial is available here.
A new tutorial – Listing image files in a directory with PHP – is now available at FlashKit.
You’ll learn how to read the contents of a folder full of images and to create XML dynamically using PHP. Then, you’ll load the XML into Flash and create a slideshow.
The tutorial is available here.
A new tutorial – Flash Clock with the server’s time using PHP – is now available at FlashKit.
You’ll learn how to display date and time in Flash, using the Date Class.
You’ll also learn how to output the time on the server using PHP, load it into Flash as a variable name/value pair, and display it in the hh:mm:ss format.
The tutorial is available here.
A new tutorial – Drag and Drop game with ActionScript 3 – is now available at FlashKit.
You’ll learn how to drag and drop objects in AS3.
You’ll learn how to calculate the distance between two objects and use the TweenLite Class to slide one of them.
The tutorial is available here.
