Having been involved with Post Secondary education for over a decade and an active member of the international, national and local New Media Communities, I have jammed a lot of experience into a relatively short time frame. Nine books in seven years, a ton of speaking engagements , Adobe Community Expert, Community MX partner and other activities are a good example of that one. The biggest honor so far has been my being lumped in with a group of 10 influential Flash Designers that Adobe pulled together to celebrate the 10'th anniversary of Flash. I hope you enjoy my contributions to Activetuts+!
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Every type of TLF text in Flash — Read Only, Selectable, and Editable — supports hyperlinks. All it takes to add a link in a text container is to type in your text, select a few words, and enter the desired URL into the Properties panel. Optionally, you can enter a target as well.
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It should come as no surprise that you can use TLF text as a button to kick off an event in your movie. For example, you could have a text block on the stage that talks about a visit to Times Square in New York, and when the user clicks the phrase Times Square, a photo appears on the stage. In this example, you are going to click some text, and a yellow star you will create on the stage starts spinning.
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A lot has changed between how text was handled in Flash CS4 and Flash CS5. We think now is a good time to pull up a stool, sit down, and review, in very broad terms, what one needs to know about TLF before “wiring up” an exercise or project using ActionScript.
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In the previous article I walked you through how one uses a variety of applications to create the assets for an interactive magazine and then the process of adding media, motion and interactivity to those assets in InDesign CS5. This article will focus on the end game – outputting the project for delivery through a web page or sending the project to Flash for more work and output to a SWF or even an AIR app.
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Tablets are today’s Big Thing. Sure, the iPad can’t do Flash, but it’s just the first of a wave. Adobe InDesign CS5 can do a ton of interactive stuff that’s perfect for the large screen space of a tablet, then kick it over to Flash for tweaking and improvement. In this tutorial, we’ll see how to work with the InDesign side of things.
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I’m here to talk to you about the new FXG format that’s being introduced with Flash CS5. This format allows you to create objects on the Flash stage, export them out to applications such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, Catalyst etc. and work on them there.
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Let’s take a look at Adobe’s new Media Encoder which comes bundled with Flash CS5. A couple of interesting changes have been made to it and you really should be aware of them, so let’s get started..
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The range of templates available for playing with in Flash CS4 is, well, minimal. Thankfully, CS5 has introduced a load more, falling into a wide selection of categories such as banners, buttons, media playback, animation and more. Let’s take a look!
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I’m going to tell you about some of the new video features that have been built into Flash CS5. They’ll make your life so much easier – and if you teach this stuff, oh boy, are your students in for a treat..
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Sometimes, Flash just isn’t the right tool for the job at hand. It’s not great at creating textured buttons, for example. Luckily for us Adobe users, Fireworks is – and we can drag an object from Fireworks to Flash in about ten seconds.
This Quick Tip will show you how.
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Follow Activetuts+ editor Michael James Williams as he walks you through integrating Flash with Facebook! Learn to develop apps for the Facebook website and harness the Graph API in your external projects.
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