This is a very flexible Flash full-text-search component that supports multiple images and texts.
All aspects of it can be customized via XML files, including the images, texts, colors, sizes and more.
The component supports unlimited text / images & it can resize the height depending on the number of items.
For skinning it, no Flash experience is needed as everything is done by updating the XML files (colors, speed of the effects, etc.).
The download package comes with all the source code including FLA files, PSDs & fonts used.
Requirements: No Requirements
Kap Lab is presenting 5 impressive & free visualization components for Flex.
All components are AS3 based & some of them offer multiple layout options which makes them very flexible in means of presentation.
The components are:
- Diagrammer (for diagram creation, mind mapping…)
- Visualizer (for displaying hierarchies like organizational schemas..)
- Radar Chart (for data analysis, comparing data items…)
- Treemap (for inventory management, social news mapping…)
- Ring Chart (for displaying statistics)
Examples are provided for each component with the sources & there is a support forum where users share their experiences.
P.S. Download requires a free membership.
SoulWire, a blog dedicated to ActionScript & illustrations, is presenting good looking & customizable flash menus / animations.
There are both AS2 & AS3 resources and source codes can be downloaded too.
A totally customizable menu, built with AS3, that is very suitable for displaying various menu items in a vertical space easily.
An AS3 class for creating 3D ribbons effects. It uses TweenMax as the tweening engine & has more than the features presented in the demo (which may be processor intensive).
Besides the resources presented, there are other great ones like:
Flash has popular free libraries / classes to extend the core functionality like Papervision3D, AlivePDF, Flare or Tweener.
There are also less-known ones which are still very powerful & can make the development process of a Flash application easier / faster.
Here is 10 of them that you will find handy (you know more? please share them in the comments).
A beautiful AS3 music player class.
It has support for playlist management or playing a single file, loops & more.
A Flash solution that mimics Ajax (& provides more) by a XMLHttpRequest compatible interface.
It uses a Flash file: flxhr.swf which works like a proxy between requests & supports cross-domain Ajax.
This ActionScript 3.0 library is focused on sequencing animations and other time-based actions.
It includes a number of features and shortcuts, such as the clone() method, that save effort for developers.
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Last week, a post announced the giveaway of 3 FlashEff Premium Unlimited licenses ($249 value / each).
Winners are selected today. But before that, FlashEff has a 50% discount until the end of September (2 days left) & if you’re not one of the winners & want to buy this great component, hurry up.
To remind:
FlashEff is a Flash CS3 (and Flash CS4 ready) AS3 component for easing the animation process & creating stunning animations.
Tip: To see the beauty of the effects, click here to go to the effects gallery.
Here are the winners:
- Hernan Dario Silva (comment #19309)
- JC (comment #19399)
- SEANRON (comment #19496)
Thanks to everyone for contributing & congratulations to the winners.
Keep following WRD for more great giveaways & web resources.
Flashmo, which was presented at WRD (here & here) a while ago has 3 new free Flash galleries.
The galleries are:
Images in the galleries can be edited via a XML file
All the galleries have the source FLA files & you can edit them to make the galleries fit your needs.
Jumpeye Components is giving away 3 FlashEff Premium Unlimited Licenses ($249 value/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers.
Details of the giveaway & how to join it can be found below the post.
What is FlashEff?
FlashEff is a Flash CS3 (and Flash CS4 ready) AS3 component for easing the animation process & creating stunning animations.
Tip: To see the beauty of the effects, click here to go to the effects gallery.
It is also a collection of over 100 patterns (and growing) that enable cool animations and interactive actions on visual objects and texts. FlashEff can be used/customized from both, the visual interface and API.
The visual interface, FlashEff Panel, is a powerful online utility that loads inside your Flash CS3 IDE and configures everything for the FlashEff component.
- Create amazing animations with images, movieclips or text.
- Create animated buttons without coding.
- Perform commands and trigger actions on any event such as rollOver, press or doubleClik.
- Add static or animated fitlers to any visual object within Flash CS3.
- Most of the patterns can be combined to create complex animated objects.
Do you have advanced AS3 skills? Then create a pattern for FlashEff, submit it until 31 October 2008 & get the chance to be one of the winners who will earn $2500 worth prize.
Click here to see the details of the Pattern Creation Contest.
How To Win The Free Licenses?
Simply comment to this post & that’s all.
Winners will be selected randomly from commenters 1 week later (29 September 2008 – Thursday) with the SQL query below:
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=533 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3
Good luck to all : ).
Info: This is a sponsored post.
FlashLoaded is giving away 3 3D Wall Pro licenses ($179.95/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers. Details of "how to winning the licenses’ can be found inside the post.
What is 3D Wall Pro?
3D Wall Pro is a Papervision3D powered, very good looking & interactive wall that can display:
- Images
- Youtube & streaming videos
- SWF files
- Flickr images
The wall can be set to be flat or at any curvature. It responds very well to mouse / scrolls & has a built-in preloader while switching from thumbnails to large images that makes the visuality flawless.
Overall 3D effect – the depth of field is very realistic & makes browsing the media a joy.
Media to be displayed is mentioned in a XML file so there is no need to republish the SWF again & again.
Application has 80+ configuration options (AS3 only) that helps you customize & make it unique.
3D Wall Pro has some other features like:
- Ability to display a customizable video icon on video
- Customizable tooltips for each thumbnail
- Customizable player buttons
- Optional watermarks for large images that can be totally customized)
How to win the licenses?
Simply comment to this post with at least "I want the license" text besides any other comment.
Winners will be selected randomly from commenters 12 days later (8 September 2008 – Monday) with the SQL query below:
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=480 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3
Good luck to all : ).
Requirements: No Requirements
FIVe3D is an open source code for creating vector-based 3D animations with Flash.
These Flash animation classes are built with AS3 and has the following features:
- Back face culling
- Flat shading
- Z-sorting
- Space drawing functions
- Bitmap3D class
- Video3D class
- Sprite 2D class
- Letter spacing
- Text width
Tip:
FIVe3D considers a text as a collection of letters, each letter being a vector shape. To draw these vector shapes, drawing instructions are saved in a typography file.
There is free tool at the website which enables you to create typography files.
This is a very good looking Flash news slider (AS3 code) which uses XML for fetching the data.
The Flash slider simply displays an image and a descriptive text with a link to the URL wanted. The slider can be controlled via the next-previous & pause buttons.
You can find the steps for creating this Flash news slider as a tutorial and download the source files.
Design of the slider is inspired from the LaNacion.com website.
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