{"id":981,"date":"2013-04-19T05:09:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T19:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=981"},"modified":"2021-08-10T18:42:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T08:42:27","slug":"flash-via-bannerzest-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/flash-via-bannerzest-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash via BannerZest Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flash via BannerZest Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Are you looking to create a Flash banner (*.swf file) for web use, or for other uses, and you are using a Mac OS X operating system? Welcome to the Flash via BannerZest Primer Tutorial, which we hope will steer you in the right direction. This tutorial uses the BannerZest application to create a Flash object which can be used with the HTML object<\/a> tag for web page usage. Flash files were invented by Adobe.<\/p>\n

Adobe Flash (formerly called “Macromedia Flash”) is a multimedia and software platform used for authoring of vector graphics, animation, games and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) which can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisement and interactive multimedia content to web pages, although usage of Flash on websites is declining.[1]<\/p>\n

Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It allows bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera. Flash applications and animations can be programmed using the object-oriented language called ActionScript. Adobe Flash Professional is the most popular and user-friendly authoring tool for creating the Flash content, which also allows automation via the JavaScript Flash language (JSFL).<\/p>\n

Adobe Flash Player makes the Flash content accessible on various computer systems and devices and is available free of charge for common web browsers (as a plug-in) under a few of the major operating systems, some smartphones and tablets, and a few other electronic devices using Flash Lite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let me assure you that you will be in good company if you end up getting obsessed with Flash. It is a great tool to get your website noticed, if used well. People build whole websites with Flash, so will point you to some YouTube Flash Tutorials<\/a> on this big topic area<\/a>. If you think you are doing great things with Flash and want to take it to the next level you need to be aware of information regarding Flash incompatibilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click on picture above<\/a> to see this primer tutorial where you can see the creation of a Flash *.swf file. Please note that this is just one approach to creating Adobe Flash files, and Adobe Flash CS6<\/a> or Adobe Flash CS4<\/a> would be a more typical industry standard for doing this.<\/p>\n

Link to Adobe Flash more information … via Wikipedia, from where quote above came<\/a>.
\nLink to Adobe home page … via Adobe<\/a>.
\nLink to BannerZest home page … via Aquafadas<\/a>.
\nLink to webpage using BannerZest Flash … Home Page<\/a> … some of personal experience.
\nLink to … Flash, aaaaaarrrrrgh!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

If this was interesting you may be interested in this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n