A scripting language for Flash animations that is similar to JavaScript. Introduced in 2000 with Flash 5, which was the first Flash version to be fully programmable, ActionScript is based on ECMAScript. See Flex and Flash.
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- Adobe releases Flash, AIR betas; Gauging the potential of multi-touch on the desktop
- Not surprising ....Not surprising, considering, Silverlight already supports multi-touch, as does WPF.Silverlight has potential......but platform availability is a factor. MS need to improve that greatly if they want to take a bite out of Flash's share.Rather, catch up[i]Adobe?s platform is appealing, but it?s in a race to stay ahead...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- iSpring Presenter 4.3.0.2667 (Windows)
- iSpring Presenter is a PowerPoint add-in designed for creating e-learning Flash content from your PowerPoint. Generated Flash courses are ready to be published to any Learning Management System LMS conforming to SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 standards. iSpring Presenter produces Flash presentations with ActionScript API for seamless integration of PowerPoint...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Sothink SWF Decompiler 5.3 (Windows)
- SWF Decompiler is a professional Flash decompiler. It can easily decompile SWF to FLA and FLEX projects. Not only supports AS3, this Flash decompiler also supports Flash 6/MX 2004/8/CS3/CS4 and FLEX. It extracts almost all Flash elements including shape, morph shapes, images, sounds, videos, frames, fonts, texts, buttons, sprites and...
- Software downloads 2009-11-04
- secureSWF 3.4 (Mac)
- Publish with confidence and stop giving away your source code with every SWF file. secureSWF protects SWF files from decompilers and reverse engineering by providing the most advance Flash and Flex ActionScript obfuscation, optimization, and encryption making it the unquestioned market leader. In addition, secureSWF helps you protect your...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Creative Flash Scroller 1.0.2 (Mac)
- With Creative Flash Scroller you can scroll any kind of Flash Content: static text, dynamic text, pictures, animations, movies. It comes with multiple scroll behaviors: touch scroll, mouse gesture scroll, scrollbar scroll and even supports mouse wheel behavior. You can add smooth scrolling or motion blur effects and customize it...
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loom
- Flash 9 is already availableThe web browser is called SkyFire and Flash on it works very nicely.RE: Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loomI'll try not to do my banking on my cell phone.Problem solved!RE: Adobe has the iPhone surrounded with Flash, but security headaches loomWhat...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Sothink SWF Quicker 4.6 build 462 (Windows)
- SWF Quicker is the leading Flash SWF editor. It is the best flash animation editor to edit SWF files or create Flash animations from scratch. Sothink SWF Quicker supports Flash CS4 (V10) and ActionScript 3.0; applies plenty of built-in animated effects and Flash filter effects; provides the quick-start templates to...
- Software downloads 2009-09-23
- FlashDigger Plus 4.1.4.182 (Windows)
- Explores Flash files, extracts and updates text, graphics, sound and actions. Graphics can be exported in JPEG, PNG and BMP format. Sounds are saved in MP3 or WAV. You can change scene size/frame rate, insert/remove tags and frames, insert, remove or modify actions, change object placement, update URL's, associated with...
- Software downloads 2009-09-22
- Flash Menu Labs Standard Edition 2.062 (Windows)
- Flash Menu Labs is a powerful tool for creating flash menus for your Web site instantly. Even non-professionals with zero Flash and ActionScript skills can successfully use it. Flash Menu Labs adds some zest to your Web site navigation.
- Software downloads 2009-09-20
- SWF Decompiler And Editor Suite 4.6 (Windows)
- Professional SWF Decompiler easily decompiles one or more SWF to FLA, SWF to FLEX project, and extracts Flash elements. You can work like with active elements as well as with passive ones. It is compatible with ActionScript 3. Support Flash 6, Flash MX 2004, Flash 8, Flash CS3 and Flash...
- Software downloads 2009-09-14
- Enterprise Architect 7.5 build 848 (Windows)
- Use Enterprise Architect with UML 2.1 to model, design, and build your next software or business project. Leverage MDA and code generation support (ActionScript, Java, C#, C++, C, VB.Net, VB, Python, and DDL) to rapidly move from analysis to design and build. Create reports. Manage tests, resources, and heaps more....
- Software downloads 2009-09-08
- Instant Color Picker 2.5.0.32 (Windows)
- With Instant Color Picker, you can quickly pick colors from screen and store them. You can zoom up to 8x or get 3x3 - 5x5 pixel average. ICP's unique eyedropper allows you to use navigation keys to select any pixel. Store up to 20 colors in its color palette. Copy...
- Software downloads 2009-09-07
- Flash Converter Suite 1.5 (Windows)
- SWF Decompiler is a professional Flash decompiler. It can easily decompile one or more SWF to FLA, SWF to FLEX project. Fully supports Flash 6, Flash MX 2004, Flash 8, Flash CS3, Flash CS4 and FLEX. It is compatible with ActionScript 3. Multi-Language interface is available. Flash Decompiler can extract...
- Software downloads 2009-09-03
- Flash Secure Optimizer 2.0 (Windows)
- Flash Secure Optimizer FSO is a software that can protect ActionScripts and compress SWF files. For protecting ActionScripts inside SWF file, FSO uses one of the best well know methods that is, Identifier Renaming Identifier Obfuscation. FSO Reads SWF file and retrieves all identifiers and smartly converts identifier names to...
- Software downloads 2009-09-03
- Flash Menu Component (Horizontal) 1.0 (Windows)
- This is an open-source flash menu component Horizontal made with Adobe flash professional CS3, Actionscript 3.0. Features: easy to use, editable skin. This component is licensed under the GNU/GPL.
- Software downloads 2009-08-24
- SecureSWF Professional 3.3 (Windows)
- SecureSWF is the most sophisticated obfuscation, protection and encryption solution for Adobe's Flash ActionScript. It provides state-of-the-art obfuscation techniques to prevent decompilation and reverse engineering, encrypted domain locking and encrypted loader creation to prevent illegal copying and redistribution, and strong literal strings encryption to help you increase your application's security....
- Software downloads 2009-08-10
- Flash Maker Suite 3.3 (Windows)
- Flash Maker Suite is a flash animation software bundle for both novice, intermediate and professional users. You can leave all design issues to us for we have stored 1000 well-designed resources, 60 animation effects, 30 templates and flexible ActionScript. In the meanwhile, it'll meet all your needs in making a...
- Software downloads 2009-08-05
- Flash Decompiler and Flash Maker Suite 5.2 build 521 (Windows)
- A flash animation software bundle for both novice, intermediate and professional users. It has a versatile Flash Maker and SWF editor, and an excellent tool to browse, play and parse Flash movies, supporting writing ActionScript 2.0. The Quick-start Wizard can guide you to create an animated slide show, Flash album,...
- Software downloads 2009-08-05
- FreeSpin3D Extension for Adobe Flash CS4 4.0 (Windows)
- FreeSpin3DÃ?? is an Extension for Adobe Flash that enables the importing of 3D models directly into Adobe Flash as Flash MovieClip objects. It is the only real-time 3D technology that utilizes the standard Adobe Flash animation timeline and built-in 3D behaviors, making FreeSpin3D the most intuitive solution for interactive designers....
- Software downloads 2009-07-28
- SWF Protector for Mac 2.0 (Mac)
- SWF Protector by DCOMSoft Company easily helps you to protect all of your SWF files from all kinds of SWF decomilers, no matter if you were using Flash or Flex technology. It uses four different protection algorithms that allow SWF file playback in Flash Player, but conceal the source code...
- Software downloads 2009-07-27
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