TechNote

Web sites devoted to Macromedia Flash and Flash Developers

The following web sites provide a forum toFlash developers for discussing Flash and related topics.

Note: These sites are not affiliated in any way with Adobe. While Adobe employees may participate in online forums or mailing lists operated by some of these sites, Adobe does not commit its employees to monitoring these forums or lists. Adobe has no editorial control over content published on these web sites and does not guarantee the accuracy of any information found therein, or in the descriptions below. The following web sites are presented as additional resources that may benefit you or your work with Flash. Please read any FAQs that these sites make available and observe any required etiquette.

• Tutorials and other resources
• Third-party mailing lists
• Third-party tools
• Integrating Flash with other web players
• 3-D
• Sound
• Books

Tutorials and other resources

About Animation Adobe blogs Actionscript[org] Actionscript-Toolbox CambodiaXP Common ActionScript Community MX Computer Arts Flash 8 forums Flash 99% Good Flashcomguru Flash components network Flash-db

FlashDevils Flash forum french FlashFocus dutch FlashKit FlashMagazine Flashmove Flash Tutorials and reviews FlashXpress french Flashzone Poland polish Go to and Learn Go to and Play Kirupa

Mediabox french Moock WebDesign motionculture MXNA Person 13 peterjoel samples PhilFlash french Tweening prototypes Steves tutes UltraShock Were-Here

Third-party mailing lists

• FLASHmacromedia Yahoo! - moderated Flash discussion group
• Fig Leaf Flashcoders, Flashnewbies, FlashComm, SWFCoders, Dreamcoders
• OSFlash Open source development related to Flash
• Flexcoders Flex application developers

Third-party tools

• FlashAnts Tools for SWF files, video, and projectors - including SWF2Video and FMProjector
• Flashjester Tools for extending Macromedia Flash projectors
• Flash Toolset SWF explorer and editor
• MDM (multidmedia) Tools for extending Macromedia Flash projectors
• http://www.flashjester.commProjector Create windowless or shape-changing projectors
• On2 Flix On2 Flix Video for Flash 8
• SciTE Flash ActionScript editor based on SciTE/Scintilla
• SE|PY ASEditor An ActionScript editor written in python
• Sorenson Squeeze Compression tool for Flash Video
• SWF Studio Windows tool for extending the functionality of projectors
• Swftools Directory of Flash tools, add-ons, and utilities
• Swish SWF creation tool
• Swift-Tools Flash utilities
• Swifty Utilities Tools for opening and organizing SWF files

Integrating Flash with other Web players

• Beatnik How to integrate Flash with Beatnik
• Real Player Information on creating RealFlash content

3-D

• FlashEd Realtime 3D engine in ActionScript
• Illustrate! Standalone tool and plugin for 3D Studio Max
• Swift 3D Standalone tool for creating 3-D Flash movies

Sound

• Sound resources are available in Flash sound resources (TechNote tn_14274).

Books

• Flash books are available for further research.

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