SWF File Format

• Adobe Flash
  
  
• Books about Adobe Flash
  
  
• Recommended Web Publishing File Formats

• Flash Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools

  By Sham Bhangal O'Reilly Media, Inc. Paperback (496 pages) Product Description: If you've ever seen an especially cool Flash effect on the web, gone straight to your trusty Flash book to find out how to do it, then turned away empty-handed--Flash Hacks is for you. This unique book offers a collection of expert Flash tips and tricks for optimization, creating interesting effects, ActionScript programming, sound and video effects, and much more--and you don't need to be an expert to use them (although you'll certainly look like one). With Flash technology, you can create compelling web content, expressive user interfaces, and rich applications for the Internet--all of which dramatically enhance the user experience. But Flash is not just practical, it's a wellspring of opportunities to unleash your creativity and have fun. Flash Hacks dives straight into all that's fun and creative about Flash, while presenting useful programming techniques and practical--although never mundane--hacks that can make your work easier. Geared to cover Flash MX, Flash MX 2004, and Flash MX Professional 2004, Flash Hacks begins with hacks on authoring, testing, and web environments. You'll learn how to beat the Flash bloat bug, realistically simulate the web, create a JavaScript-free Flash sniffer, and hack a spellchecker for Flash. Other hacks in the book are grouped in the following areas: Primitives Timelines Symbols Flash Assets (sound, video, and bitmaps) Code hacks Events and event handling Advanced animation UI design hacks True to O'Reilly's popular Hacks series, Flash Hacks tackles problems and solutions that aren't dealt with elsewhere. You'll pick up insider tips from the experts, and learn about amazing and sometimes quirky aspects of Flash. If you want more than your average Flash user--you want to explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on your own--Flash Hacks is the book you'll need. List Price: $24.95 Lowest New Price: $9.99 Lowest Used Price: $0.23 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 02:10 Pacific 16 May 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

  
  
  
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

  By Katherine Ulrich Peachpit Press Paperback (696 pages) Product Description: New timeline effects and behaviors, better run-time performance (which equals faster graphics display and video playback), native support for PDF and EPS forms, a slew of workflow enhancements, an improved programming language, a redesigned interface—these are just a few in the long list of new features that have Web designers salivating over the newest version of their favorite Web tool: Macromedia Flash MX 2004. Whether you're brand new to the world of Flash development or a veteran chomping at the bit to take advantage of all the latest features, this task-based guide will have you creating high-impact, interactive Web sites with Flash MX 2004 in no time. Best-selling author Katherine Ulrich is at it again here, using simple step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids to cover every aspect of Flash design—from the basics of vector animation to sophisticated interaction and transition effects. Throughout, you'll find the direct, friendly language and plethora of tips that have become the hallmark of the popular Visual QuickStart series. List Price: $24.99 Lowest New Price: $6.00 Lowest Used Price: $0.80 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 02:10 Pacific 16 May 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

  
  
  
• Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash MX in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself in 24 Hours)

  By Phillip Kerman Sams Paperback (624 pages) Product Description: Since its introduction in 1996, Macromedia Flash has become the standard for delivering high impact, vector-based graphics to the Web. Flash is deceptively simple at first, yet has great depth and flexibility. Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 5 in 24 Hours offers a clearly written, well-organized introduction to this powerful product, and gives the beginner an overview of the entire package, without becoming too overwhelming. A new version of Flash is expected to be released in the 1st quarter of 2002. It will have user interface improvements, several new features, and extensive improvements to existing features. List Price: $29.99 Lowest New Price: $2.99 Lowest Used Price: $0.02 Usually ships in 2 to 4 weeks (As of 02:10 Pacific 16 May 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

  
  
  
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 ActionScript Bible

  By Robert Reinhardt Wiley Paperback (938 pages) Product Description: Provides in-depth information to the more than one million Flash developers who want to take their animations to the next level using sophisticated interaction and data-driven content Flash ActionScript is an object-oriented scripting language used with Flash that allows the designer to control a movie in non-linear fashion, create sophisticated interactivity, control elements on the stage, collect and track input from the movie viewer, and exchange and manipulate data from external sources The most comprehensive Flash ActionScript guide available, cowritten by Robert Reinhardt, coauthor of Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Bible (0-7645-4303-2) Published to coincide with the release of Flash "X," the newest version of this widely used Web development tool List Price: $65.83 Lowest New Price: $3.99 Lowest Used Price: $2.05 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 02:10 Pacific 16 May 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

  
  
  
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Bible

  By Robert Reinhardt Visual Paperback (1300 pages) Product Description: * The bestselling guide to Macromedia Flash, the leading tool for creating animation and building interactive, multimedia Web sites, now fully updated and revised to cover the new release * Covers everything readers need to know to master the newest version, including workarounds for hidden bugs and unpublished tricks and techniques not likely to appear in other books * Packed with expert tutorials from the world's leading Flash gurus, with more coverage on using Flash with other applications than any other book * Coauthor Robert Reinhardt is one of a handful of top stars in the Flash developer community and a regular speaker at FlashForward, the Macromedia User's Conference, WebTEK, Macromedia's traveling user seminars, and major universities List Price: $49.99 Lowest New Price: $2.23 Lowest Used Price: $2.23 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 02:10 Pacific 16 May 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

  
  
  
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickPro Guide

  By Russell Chun Peachpit Press Paperback (648 pages) Product Description: As a professional Flash developer, nobody knows more about Flash MX 2004 than you or at least they better not! To make sure they don't, you need this task-based guide. By applying the popular Visual QuickStart format--easy, step-by-step instructions and loads of visual aids--to more complex topics, this guide offers the quickest, easiest way to get up to speed on the advanced Flash features that can make or break a project. You'll find straight-ahead, concise explanations of all the animation, navigation, and interactivity techniques you'll need to master to create dynamic Web sites with Flash. You'll also find complete coverage of all that's new in Flash MX 2004: essential ActionScript 2.0 commands and standards, expanded support for rich media, a streamlined user interface, and more. By emphasizing methodology and problem solving over features inventories and long, techie discussions, this guide teaches Flash the way you use it--dynamically, interactively, and to get a job done! List Price: $29.99 Lowest New Price: $15.50 Lowest Used Price: $0.88 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 02:10 Pacific 16 May 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

• Active Server Flash
  Do you need some server side data visualization component in Macromedia Flash format? Do you want your web visitors to create a special, interactive Flash by your ASP/PHP scripts? Or use Flash to show your own professional data from database? Try Active Server Flash, which provides a stage by the size you specified, and you can draw any graphing by ASP/PHP scripts with your complex data. ASF is a powerful Macromedia Flash component to creating server side professionally looking Flash(swf) from scripts.
  
  
• Anim-FX
  Create Flash intros, Flash banners, and text effects with Flash templates from Anim-FX for your web site - fast and easy.
  
  
• Flashation Flash Button and Menu Builder
  Flashation is a Flash buttons and menu builder. A great tool to let you create impressive and professional menus and buttons for your web site.
  
  
• Mix-FX
  Mix-FX is a simple-to-use Flash software tool lets you create absolutely stunning Flash animations and Flash buttons in just seconds.
  
  
• SWiSH Max2: Flash Creation Software

  CrystalGraphics, Inc. CD-ROM (N/A) Creates Stunning Flash Animations and Websites with Ease! Unique drawing tools make adding shapes a breeze! 250 built-in effects to choose from! Operating System: Windows 2000, XP, VISTA (Not Mac compatible) Product Description: SWiSHmax2 is the latest generation of the famous and award-winning SWiSH software line of easy-to-use Flash editors. It has everything you need to create stunning, fully interactive Flash animations. Whether you are creating Flash effects from scratch, or editing existing SWiSH Flash files (such as. SWI files included with some PowerPlugs: Web Templates), use SWiSHmax2 to swiftly and easily generate stylish Flash effects. SWiSHmax2 includes intuitive scripting, drawing and editing tools as well as hundreds of built-in effects that can be applied to text, images, graphics, and sounds. You can also author and distribute your own effects! Import/ Export tools allow versatility in the use and output of SWiSHmax2 files. SWiSHmax2 has a simple yet powerful menu interface that includes useful tools such as the ability to add effects to multiple objects at once, a timeline editor and page tabs that help you manage dynamic content, easy to use input forms, a JavaScript-like scripting language and advanced compression features that help you keep your SWiSH (. SWF) files small. Plus, it even allows you to create and distribute your own custom Flash effects! *CrystalGraphics is pleased to announce that it is only USA distributor of SWiSHmax2 and the only company in the world offering the SWiSHmax2 product on CD-ROM, for your convenience and security. List Price: $149.00 Lowest New Price: $134.10 (As of 02:10 Pacific 16 May 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

  
  
  
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 [OLD VERSION]

  Macromedia Released: 2003-09-15 CD-ROM Macintosh/Windows 2000 Tool for creating effective, rich content across desktops and devices Jumpstart projects with templates & components, and take advantage of the online resource library Add interactivity with powerful scripting Product Description: Allows designers and developers to integrate video, text, audio, and graphics into immersive, rich experiences that deliver superior results for interactive marketing and presentations, e-learning, and application user interfaces. List Price: $499.00 (As of 02:10 Pacific 16 May 2008 More Info) Buy It Now

• A Concise Guide to the SWF File Format
  Unofficial (?) technical/programming information on this file format.
  
  
• Clip Art Inc.
  This site has a large collection of royalty-free clip art and animations, including Flash animations.
  
  
• Customizable Flash Animations
  Flashiness.com - Customizable Flash Animations - Banners, Intros, Games.
  
  
• Featured Flash Templates
  Ready to use templates for building flash sites
  
  
• Flash Builder
  Flash Website Site Builder.
  
  
• Flash Software and Resources
  
  
• Flash Tutorials, Books & Guide
  
  
• FlashBanger.com
  Custom Flash Banners, Animations, Flash-Splash and Intro Web Designs.
  
  
• Macromedia : Macromedia Flash Player: Licensing