Flash
The Complete (Almost) Vectorized Webding Catalog
by Kim Cavanaugh - 06-Nov-06
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Way back in December 2003 I wrote a free article here at Community MX called Fun with Webdings and Wingdings which is consistently in the Top Ten of our most viewed tutorials. As of this writing the tutorial has been viewed over 55,000 times. And why not? First of all, the tutorial is free, and secondly, Webdings and Wingdings are lots of fun to play around with. They can also serve some really useful purposes. Depending on the font in that family of "Dings" you can get all sorts of little miniature pictures by just typing in the correct character using the Fireworks Text tool.
Recently I needed some small icons for a design project so I started up Fireworks and created my own reference library for the Webding font family. And while I was at it, I decided to go ahead and convert all of the text objects into vector shapes. What you'll find here is a somewhat later version of the same file that is a tad better organized. You can use this file for your own design purposes or use it as a reference for creating your own library of characters.
What do you get in terms of images? Well, you'll have to open the file up to see all of the little pictures that Webdings create, but here are a few samples.
In addition there are two source files included in this download—both a Flash and a Fireworks source file that make use of the webding vector shapes included in the library for your examination.
CMX Insert SWFObject 1.4
by Paul Newman - 10-Jul-06
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SWFObject is an external JavaScript file, created by Geoff Stearns, that enables you to embed Flash movies into web pages using XHTML-compliant code. The CMX Insert SWFObject extension automatically inserts SWFObject code into Dreamweaver documents, and copies swfobject.js into the folder you specify. Now supports major, minor, and revision Flash Player detection.
Requirements: Dreamweaver MX or higher, Flash Player
CMX Insert FlashObject 1.2 (Dreamweaver Extension)
by Paul Newman - 25-Aug-05
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FlashObject is an external JavaScript file, created by Geoff Stearns, that enables you to embed Flash movies into web pages using XHTML-compliant code. The CMX Insert FlashObject extension automatically inserts FlashObject code into Dreamweaver documents, and copies flashobject.js into the folder you specify. Now supports major, minor, and revision Flash Player detection.
Requirements: Dreamweaver MX or higher, Flash Player
This extension has been updated 7/10/06. The updated version is available here.
CMX Insert FlashObject (Dreamweaver Extension)
by Paul Newman - 05-May-05
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FlashObject is an external JavaScript file, created by Geoff Stearns, that enables you to embed Flash movies into web pages using XHTML-compliant code. The CMX Insert FlashObject extension automatically inserts FlashObject code into Dreamweaver documents, and copies flashobject.js into the folder you specify.
Requirements: Dreamweaver MX or higher, Flash Player
An update to this extension was released on 8/25/05. The updated version is located here.
CMX MP3 Player (Flash Extension)
by Paul Newman - 07-Apr-05
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The CMX MP3 Player component enables you to load external MP3s from an XML playlist. Features include track info display (title, artist), elapsed and remaining time, audio scrubber, volume slider, and playlist navigation.
Preview MP3 Player
Requirements: Flash MX 2004 (pro or standard), Flash Player 7
CMX Slideshow (Flash Extension)
by Paul Newman - 24-Mar-05
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This extension for Flash MX 2004 loads external JPEG and SWF files to create a Flash slideshow. The CMX Slideshow component is very customizable and includes support for hyperlinks, captions, padding, resizing, transitions, controls, and much more.
You can also access CMX Slideshow's methods, properties, and events using ActionScript. The support files demonstrate how to create your own custom controls, and how to load a list of images from an external XML file.
Preventing Caching in Flash Player
by Paul Newman - 24-Jan-05
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In this article, you'll learn how to use CacheManager, an ActionScript 2.0 class, to prevent Flash Player from caching external images, XML, and text files in your applications.
CMX Flash Video Player (Dreamweaver Extension)
by Paul Newman - 13-Jan-05
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This Flash Element for Dreamweaver MX 2004 enables you to quickly insert the CMX Flash Video Player into an HTML document. Using Dreamweaver's Tag inspector, you can browse to an FLV file on your computer, and define player settings such as autoPlay, bgColor, flvURL, and volume.
In addition, CMX Flash Video Player is resizable and you can preview it in Design view. Requires Flash Player 7.
Includes: CMXFLVPlayer_dw.mxp, demo files, sample videos, PDF
CMX Flash Video Player (Flash Extension)
by Paul Newman - 06-Jan-05
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This Flash MX 2004 extension enables you to play back progressive Flash video (FLV) files in your Flash movies. Features include play/pause button, FLV download progress bar, real-time scrubbing, volume slider, and mute button.
Because this extension uses the NetConnection and NetStream classes, the resulting SWF file is only 5K in size, so it doesn't require a preloader. In addition, the methods, properties, and events of the component can be manipulated using ActionScript 2.0. There's even an event that broadcasts FLV metadata!
Preview CMX Flash Video Player
Includes: CMXFlashVideoPlayer.mxp, demo files, sample videos
CMX Blog Scroller
by Paul Newman - 08-Sep-04
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This Flash component enables you to display one or more RSS feeds in Flash Player 7 with a number of customizable options. CMX Blog Scroller automatically parses the XML and displays the latest blog entries.
Includes: CMXBlogScroller.mxp, ColdFusion proxy script, sample FLA file, PDF
Flash Your Cookies
by Paul Newman - 11-Aug-04
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Have you ever wanted to store persistent information in your Flash movies? Shared objects are the answer. You can use them to save login information, shopping cart data, user preferences, even complex objects like arrays.
This extension for Flash MX 2004 adds an ActionScript 2.0 class called "Cookie" to your global classpath. The Cookie wrapper class provides a more intuitive way to write, read, edit, and remove Flash "cookies" in your applications.
Community MXtra for Flash 2004
by Paul Newman - 21-Oct-03
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This Floating Panel for Flash MX 2004 enables you to search for articles on CommunityMX.com, or browse content using a calendar. Now you don't have to leave Flash to find the latest articles on Community MX.
Remoting Tester Panel for DW
by Branden Hall - 11-Jul-03
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This extension adds a panel to Dreamweaver MX that lets you easily test Flash Remoting calls and see their results from within Dreamweaver MX. This is the same version of the Remoting Tester Panel for Flash MX that has been ported to Dreamweaver.
Remoting Tester Panel
by Branden Hall - 08-May-03
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This extension adds a panel to Flash MX that lets you easily test Flash Remoting calls and see their results from within FlashMX.
