Creating Timer in Action Script 3

Introduction

In this brief article, I will show how to use the Timer in Action Script 3 to create simple animation. The Timer Event in Action Script3 enables you to repeat an action every specific time period. However, we will use this event to create the animation of a sonar point that moves through the stage.

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Graphic Mania forum is here

Now, you can access Graphic Mania forum from here, just click on the Forum link on the top to access the Adobe fans and graphic community ( http://www.graphicmania.net/?page_id=151 ).

The Graphic Mania forum is established to give help and support for the community that uses Adobe products such as Adobe Flash to spread their creativity as designers, animators and  innovated developers. However, I encourage you all to visit it and contribute in it to help making it the biggest Adobe community on the web.

And as an appreciation for the best contributors, we will promote frequently contributors to be moderators in the sections of their interest.

Adobe MAX site wild adventure

Open Adobe MAX site and click off the site screen on the dark area around it and start enjoying the creative funny  adventure!!

And adventure is about panning background with different environments with these funny characters that gets you involved with solving their problems. I am sure you will enjoy it.

Adobe MAX 2008 – The party is coming, do not miss!!

Adobe MAX event enable you to connect with thousands of designers and developers around the world, as well as the great guys from Adobe team ans stuff. MAX 2008/2009 will be held in San Francisco, Milan, and Tokyo.

Here is the official site for Adobe MAX, and the event blog is here.

How they do Flash cartoons?

Most of the todays cartoonists are using Flash as their main tool to output their creative fun cartoon animation. This because the magnificent advantages you can find in Flash. It is easy to learn, great in the output and you can output your animation for different media like desktop, web, video, TV and even mobile devices.

I have experienced 3 way to use Flash for creating cartoon. Here, I will briefly discuss the 3 methods and I will write a deeper article about it in the next few days.

1- Using Flash to create the animation only

In my opinion, it is the least method to use Flash capabilities, I do not think it is sufficient enough, but I tell about it since I have seen many people still use it.

In this method, cartoonist draw their characters and animations as Frames and  scan them in a program like Adobe Photoshop as art line with alias lines. Then they import it into Flash and do a Bitmap Trace option to convert the animation in vector lines.  and they do the same with each frame. This ends in Flash with a frame-by-frame animtion.

This method advatage is that the cartoonist does not have to learn drawing in Flash or if he/she does not have a tablet pen for easy drawing in Flash. But the disadvatages of this method are many such as:

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Create 3D depth in Flash cartoon animation

I was navigating through youtube.com site videos and i found this interesting video that show how to create 2D, 3D depth in Flash cartoon animation. Hope you enjoy it.

Enhancing a Dreamweaver CS3 Web Site with Flash Video: Visual QuickProject Guide

By David Karlins
Published Jun 19, 2008 by Peachpit Press. Part of the Visual QuickProject Guide series.

If you want to add great-looking Flash video to your Web site fast but don’t want to get bogged down in the details, Enhancing a Dreamweaver CS3 Web Site with Flash Video: Visual QuickProject Guide is just the book for you. The full- color projects in this book teach you all the techniques you need to enhance your Web site with Flash video.

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Essential Action Script 3.0 (Reviewed by: Rafiq Elmansy)

It is another sparkling from Colin Moock. The Essential Action Script 3 is written with the deep experience and history of Colin Moock in Action Script since version 1. The new book is a complete reference for Action Script 3 and takes you step by step to cover all the features in Action Script 3.

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SwitchBoard

Introduction to the Adobe® SwitchBoard Technology – Preview Release 1
Now AIR applications can drive the Creative Suite!

In 2007, Adobe announced Adobe AIR™ – the Adobe Integrated Runtime – for creating stand-alone web applications based on the web standards of HTML, Flash®, and Ajax. The AIR environment allows developers to create dynamic, appealing, cross-platform applications. Now, with the Adobe technology code named SwitchBoard, AIR applications can communicate with applications in the Adobe Creative Suite®.

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ADC Presents – Buidling Adobe AIR Applications with Flash CS3

In this great video, Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow show how to create your frist AIR application using Adobe Flash CS3. Lee shows a smaple of an existing Flash project and turn it into an AIR application.

Send large PSD files from Photoshop CS3 any where

yousendit.com new Photoshop plug-in enables you to send large PSD files either in PSD format or compressed from inside Photoshop CS3.

The new plug-in gives you the following features:

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