ToobPlayer is a lightweight (approx. 14-8 KB) FLV player component that comes in 5 flavors, provides a mechanism to play back YouTube videos, and can also display preview images.

Some features of this FLV player:

• Resizable, optional full-screen mode
• Several video resize mods
• Loading status feedback
• Mouse wheel support (seeking & volume)
• Auto-repeat, buffer time
• Customizable
• Extensive API

ToobPlayer YouTube integration is done with a simple PHP proxy script to automate acquaring  videos & images.

The component requires Flash Player 8+ & AS2.

Flickr’s Flash file uploader is one of the most functional uploaders a developer can think of.

It supports:

• Multiple file selection in a single "Open File" dialog.
• File extension filters for easier selection.
• Upload progress tracking.
• Filename, size, date created, date modified, and author can easily be extrated.

This flash file uploader is avaliable as the YUI Uploader component.

You can also include additional data in the upload POST request.

And, upload component provides faster file upload on broadband connections due to the modified SEND buffer size.

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.

Professional cliparts are objects which make our designs & applications better.

Templates.com is a resource-rich website presenting professional cliparts and website templates (and flash templates).

There are hundreds of quality illustrations, 3D models and icons which will give your web applications or designs a fresh look.

Categories are well organized for better browsing as you may find architecture illustrations or 3D robot models easily.

Besides these professional cliparts, Templates.com has a variety of HTML and Flash website templates.

From 9000+ templates, which includes almost any category you can imagine like e-shops or computers, you can definitely find the one you are looking for.

And, you can find free cliparts & templates too:

• Free website templates
• Free 3D models
• Free illustrations

Also, Templates.com’s blog is an interesting resource that covers interviews with designers, design tutorials & more.

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The JW Image Rotator is a Flash image rotator which enables presenting photos in sequence, with fluid transitions between them.

It supports rotation of an RSS, XSPF or ASX playlists with JPG, GIF and PNG images, a wide range of flashvars for tweaking the behavior and appearance.

Besides the flashvars, one great feature of JW Image Rotator is its JavaScript API which gives the control of the rotator totally to you.

There is an online setup wizard which generates the embed file for you for an easy startup.

Most of the developers use cookies for storing data on the client side as they are cross browser & platform. But storing important data in cookies has some downsides:

• Size: Cookie max size is around 4kb.
• Bandwidth: Cookies are used in every HTTP transaction.
• Complexity: It is hard to manipulate cookies correctly.

Modern web browsers, Google & Flash have non-cookie storage solutions but each of them solved this differently:

• globalStorage: Firefox 2.0+, Internet Explorer 8
• localStorage: development WebKit
• openDatabase: Safari 3.1+
• userdata behavior: Internet Explorer 5.5+
• Adobe Flash
• Google Gears

PersistJS solves all of the issues above. It currently supports persistent client-side storage through the following backends:

• flash: Flash 8 persistent storage.
• gears: Google Gears-based persistent storage.
• localstorage: HTML5 draft storage.
• whatwg_db: HTML5 draft database storage.
• globalstorage: HTML5 draft storage (old spec).
• ie: Internet Explorer userdata behaviors.
• cookie: Cookie-based persistent storage.

And the great news is, each backend is communicated with the same interface which means you don’t have to know or care which backend is being used.

Flajaxian FileUploader is a fully self-contained .NET assembly allowing multiple asynchronous file uploads with no page postbacks.

Features of this ASP.NET Flash File Upload Assembly:

• Self-contained .NET 2.0 assembly
• Supports multiple file uploads
• Fully customizable interface
• Callback support for progress bars
• Flash 8+ compatible
• Full source available

Flajaxian FileUploader S3 is a .NET assembly containing all of the same features of the FlashUploader, plus the ability to transfer files to Amazon’s S3 storage service on the server.

TweenLite is a lightweight and fast tweening engine for Flash AS2 & AS3.

It is lightweight because it only takes 3kb when published which makes it one of the smallest tweening engines around. And you can extend it with TweenFilterLite and TweenMax to add ColorMatrixFilter effects like saturation, contrast, brightness, hue, and even colorization.

Why use TweenLite rather than built-in tweening engine?

• SPEED. TweenLite is much faster.
• onComplete, onStart, onUpdate callbacks (plus the ability to pass any number of variables to them)
• autoAlpha (toggles visibility of an object off when the alpha hits zero)
• Tween multiple properties with a single call
• Delay any tween by a set amount (good for sequencing)
• Tween the tint of any MovieClip/Sprite VERY easily
• Tween the volume of any MovieClip
• more..

Usage of TweenLite is very simple:

TweenLite.to(target:Object, duration:Number, variables:Object);

is the most basic usage. You can add more variables that can be found at the product page.

GlassBox, a JavaScript library using Prototype and script.aculo.us helps creating transparent border, colorful layouts and "Flash-like" effects.

The GlassBox library ..

• is easy to use
• is customizable and skinnable
• comes with a coherent API (CSS based parameter) and a short introduction
• includes a basic Ajax XHR for dynamic content loading

Flash toolkit PowerCursor, an amazing idea, helps creating interfaces with the touch feeling. Users can experience touch feelings like roughness, volume, pressure, stickiness or mass in a graphical interface.

The software engine consists of a set of force field objects that can be added to any Flash project: holes, hills, slopes, roughs, walls, whirls, and more. 

How it works?

PowerCursor uses a technique called ‘optically simulated haptic feedback’ to evoke the tactile experience. It simply, using active cursor displacements, guides the user towards preferred positions or communicate properties of the interface to the user. Due to these cursor displacements a hole becomes an easily accessible part of the screen, whereas a bump area is hard to access.

Who can use PowerCursor?

Although skilled programmers might dive deeper into the toolkit’s API to control the PowerCursor objects on a code level, the toolkit can be used by non-programmers with basic Flash skills.