Development tidbits, struggles, revelations, and still some Flash

Lots of people are demo’ing the cool new features within the Flash8 player by using FlashMX2004 and modifying the headers. Here are the demos I have come across and really enjoy:

BlendMode and Filters
http://www.luminicbox.com/blog/default.aspx?page=post&id=49

Blur (Very cool demo — my favorite)
http://www.protozoo.com/?p=172

Filters
http://www.protozoo.com/?p=171

Blur and Glow filter Demo
http://theflashblog.com/?p=33

Proximity Blur
http://theflashblog.com/?p=34

A good collection of links to more F8 examples
http://www.franto.com/blog2/collected-links-to-maelstrom-examples

You’ll need the Flash8 player beta to view these demos. You can get it HERE.

v7 to v8 SWF Converter: http://www.quasimondo.com/qm_versionconverter_8.php

Windows Utility to Convert v7 to v8 SWF:
http://chall3ng3r.blogspot.com

OSFlash page on Flash8
LINK

Flash8 filter documentation
http://theflashblog.com/?p=39
Kudos to everyone for these great demos!

I’ll continue to add to this list as others post their demos.

—- UPDATE July 19th, 2005

Franky of http://www.develotec.com/ sent me this link : http://www.develotec.com/flash8api.txt. Its a text file filled with API info and examples.

I was chatting with a friend the other day about 3rd party Flash commands and he never even knew they existed. This led to a discussion of FireFox extensions that I can’t live without. I have quite a collection of favorites that I love to install, so I thought I would list them here for my benefit (for later retrieval), his benefit, and/or anyone elses.

Please feel free to add your own favorites (and links please).

FlashMX2004 Commands

Duplicate Layer (LINK)
Delete Empty Keyframes (LINK)
Symbol Swapper (LINK)
Pixel Tools (LINK)
Publish All (LINK)
Teknision Commands (LINK ) >> Includes: change case, clean up library, convert and distribute (!!), find in library, lock all masks, swap symbol across layer
JSAPI Snippets Panel (LINK)
SceneToMovie.jsfl ( LINK)
Invisible Button Tool (LINK)

Patrick Mineault has a good list to various other JSFL commands and tools on his site. I refer to his page a lot.
http://www.5etdemi.com/blog/

FireFox Extensions:

Web Developer (LINK)
Ad Block (LINK)
IE View (LINK)
OpenBook (LINK)
User Agent Switcher (LINK)
Disable Targets for Downloads (LINK)