This latest Sothink SWF Decompiler for Mac V5.6 has greatly improved the ActionScript functions. Now it can encode internal characters in UTF-8 to correctly display the decompiled ActionScript of multi-byte language, such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Moreover, this Flash Decompiler Mac will auto-play the last SWF movie when launching the program next time.

Main features of the Flash Decompiler Mac:
* Recover FLA from SWF file
* Convert SWF created by Flex back to Flex source code
* Extract SWF elements
* Fully support Flash 6/7(MX 2004)/ 8/9(CS3)/10(CS4)
* Support ActionScript 2.0/3.0
* Support Flash components
* Multi-language interface: English, German and French
Please visit www.sothink.com/product/flash-decompiler-for-mac/index.htm for more feature information.

Since the release of Adobe Flash CS5, the next version of Sothink SWF Decompiler for Mac is under development plan and will be coming soon. The core feature of this upcoming V6.0 will have the ability to decompile SWF of Adobe Flash CS5. As a special offer from Sothink, users who purchase now can upgrade to the upcoming V6.0 for free.

Download Sothink SWF Decompiler for Mac (www.swf-to-fla.com/mac/download.htm) and enjoy 30-day free experience.

“The world of creative design is rapidly evolving. It’s time to unleash the full power of the creative designer’s imagination. We created the AK toolkit with that in mind”

The AK Dynamic Creative toolkit meets the needs of both Flash designers and pure ActionScript developers. For Flash designers, who are oriented toward the look-and-feel of creative as opposed to the structure, the toolkit offers a Flash creative package that comes with sample images, FLA source files, and pre-built XML code that makes it easy to hook up the dynamic content. With minimal effort, Flash designers can repurpose these samples and change the layout, look, and feel as they wish. For more advanced ActionScript coders, the toolkit sample packages also include the ActionScript libraries and documentation needed to take complete control over the dynamic creative development process.

With the AK Dynamic Creative toolkit, visual art intersects with backend science and analytics. The toolkit empowers advertisers and agencies to create totally unique visual personas for each client while bringing subtle nuances to engage with different audiences.

“The world of creative design is rapidly evolving. It’s time to unleash the full power of the creative designer’s imagination. We created the AK toolkit with that in mind,” said Pascal Bensoussan, vice president of Product and Marketing. “AK is building the next-generation data management platform that adds data-driven targeting and optimization to the unique designs of creative artists, who can do what they do best and leave the rest to us.”

The AK Dynamic Creative toolkit is now available from Aggregate Knowledge and accommodates IAB standard Flash display ads in multiple formats.

The dynamic creative products are part of the AK Discovery Platform, which provides a centralized data management and warehousing infrastructure to ingest and normalize advertising data (including offline data), manage audiences, build custom segments, and distribute them to any media channel. The real-time reporting infrastructure of the platform provides industry-defining granularity and transparency with actionable insights into exactly WHAT (creative), WHERE (inventory/placement), and WHO (audience) is driving performance.

About Aggregate Knowledge

Aggregate Knowledge (AK) is the sole pure-play data management and ad optimization platform (DMP) company. AK empowers its customers with industry-defining granularity and transparency that provide actionable insights into exactly what (creative), where (inventory/placement), and who (audience) is driving performance. The AK Discovery Platform provides a centralized data management and warehousing infrastructure to ingest and normalize data (including offline data), manage audiences, build custom segments, and distribute them to any media channel. The platform offers a powerful combination of actionable analytics and reporting with a real-time decision engine that analyzes every impression to dynamically combine cost savings and performance improvements into a singular optimization suite.

Aggregate Knowledge is funded by premier venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, First Round Capital, and OVP Venture Partners.

More information can be found at www.aggregateknowledge.com.

How to create a Flash text scroller with no coding

In this tutorial we will create a basic Flash text scroller using vertical and horizontal scrollbars without coding. It comes handy when you have a lot of text to display and you want to create a scrollarea that the user can scroll down or even left to right using the navigation keys, touch scroll or mouse wheel (unfortunately mouse wheel does not work on MAC).

To make the scroller faster and without coding, we are going to use Creative Flash Scroller AS3 – a Flash component that makes scrolling very easy.

Read the tutorial here.

Flash Catalyst CS5 will be offered in the Adobe CS5 Master Collection, Design Premium, Web Premium and Production Premium editions (see separate releases). It will also be available as a stand-alone product.

“Adobe is committed to driving innovation on the Web by providing the best tools to designers and developers,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president and general manager of Creative Solutions at Adobe. “By bringing together the reach of the Flash Platform runtimes with the power of the Flash Platform tools integrated in Creative Suite 5, designers and developers can collaborate more effectively, reducing the time required to deliver the compelling applications and content that users now expect on the Web and mobile devices.”

Add Interactive Flash Content Without Code
Using Flash Catalyst CS5, designers can easily add interactive Flash content to Web sites and applications by transforming native Adobe Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator® artwork, as well as files from Adobe Fireworks® CS5, into functional content and user interfaces (UI). Because designers can now create interactive content without writing code, they can precisely realize their interactive concepts with Flash Catalyst, and work directly with their customers to refine those concepts using fully functional implementations rather than static screenshots. Flash Catalyst also allows round-trip editing of structured pieces of the interaction design project in Photoshop or Illustrator and allows finished projects to be published for distribution as SWF files. The project file can then be imported into Adobe Flash Builder where a developer can add functionality and integrate with servers and services.

Better Collaboration for RIA Development
Also new to CS5 Web Premium and CS5 Master Collection is Flash Builder 4, an Eclipse based, professional development tool designed to help software developers rapidly build cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) using the Flex framework. Using Flash Builder 4, developers can better collaborate with designers to rapidly build and deliver applications while maintaining the specific interactions and fidelity as defined by the designer using Flash Catalyst. This powerful combination provides designers with greater control of their creative vision, while allowing developers to stay focused on core application logic.

Powerful Design Features for Adding Interactivity
Additionally, designers can leverage the powerful new features in Flash Professional CS5, including a new text engine providing creative freedom and control over text, enhanced capabilities for team collaboration on projects, prebuilt code snippets for rapidly adding interactivity and integration with Flash Builder for advanced ActionScript® code editing. Using Flash Professional CS5, designers and developers can create, test and deliver Web content across a wide range of mobile platforms and devices such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, smartbooks and other consumer electronics. They can deploy content in the browser with Flash Player 10.1 and as a standalone application with AIR 2. In addition, users can now build AIR applications using the new Packager for iPhone tool preview, a component of Flash Professional CS5, which can be deployed on the iPhone and iPad (subject to Apple’s requirements and approval) with future device support planned for Android, BlackBerry and Palm webOS.

“The inclusion of Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 in the Adobe Flash Platform is a great addition to my workflow. I can now quickly import visual assets into Flash Catalyst, and then rapidly turn them into functioning simulations that I can further extend with Adobe Flash Builder,” said Chris Griffith, staff engineer of Qualcomm. “This new process has reduced my development time, and enabled our team to explore more compelling user interfaces and designs for both internal and external projects.”

Pricing and Availability
Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 and Adobe Flash Professional CS5 are scheduled to ship within 30 days with availability through Adobe Authorized Resellers, the Adobe Store and Adobe Direct Sales. Adobe Flash Builder 4 Standard and Premium are currently available. Estimated street pricing is expected to be US$399 for Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5, US$699 for Adobe Flash Professional CS5, and US$249 for Adobe Flash Builder 4 Standard and US$699 for Adobe Flash Builder 4 Premium. Flash Catalyst and Flash Professional will also be available in the CS5 Master Collection, CS5 Design Premium, CS5 Web Premium and CS5 Production Premium editions. Flash Builder 4 Standard will be available in the CS5 Master Collection and CS5 Web Premium editions. For more detailed information about features, OS support, upgrade policies, pricing and International versions, please visit www.adobe.com/go/flashcatalyst.

The percent the author receives from each product grows depending on the amount of sales made. This means the more you sell, the more and more you get.

Flash Scope gives developers an opportunity to sell products from other sites as well, or from Flash Scope only. Authors can load multiple products, unique and non-unique among them. And unlike on other similar resources, even for non-unique products authors can get increasing percent.

Flash Scope team does a lot of research and marketing to improve sales and works a lot to guarantee the supreme quality of flash components to the customers.

There is a beta version of the website now, but it is already open for uploads and downloads, so be free to visit it and leave your feedback.

Creative Flash Scroller comes with all the scroll behaviors needed: touch scroll, mouse gesture scroll, scrollbar scroll and it also supports mouse wheel behavior plus it gives the ability to add smooth scrolling effect and motion blur effect.

The component requires almost no ActionScript knowledge and is made up of three components:  Creative Classic Scroller (classic scroller with adjacent scrollbars), Creative Scroll Area (scroll area with no scrollbars), and Creative Scrollbar (this can be used with Creative Classic Scroller or Creative Scroll Area when you want to place the scrollbar in a custom position).

Check out the Creative Flash Scroller online demos

Menu_scrolling_demo		Scrolling_animations_demo
Scrolling_popup_demo		Thumbnail scroller demo
Website navigation demo		Scrolling products list

Find out more about Creative Flash Scroller.

Creative TextFX v2 key features

* Over 300 predefined Flash text Effects,100% customizable
* Rich text support with easy font manipulation & fonts embedding
* 3D effects
* 3 transition types (In effects, Out effects, and Wait effects)
* Configure Creative TextFX component from the Actionscript 3 code
* Integrated preview mode
* Action triggered effects and filter effects

* Event triggered actions (add Sound, add URL, go to frame, call function)
* Filters: drop shadow, blur, glow, bevel, adjust colors, reflection)
* Visual time manager
* Regular, strong, elastic, back, bounce easing function
* easeIn, easeOut, easeInOut
* Block type: word, letter, line, all text, custom
* Gradient position: center, left, right

Find out more about Flash TextFX v2.