Animation seqencer is a class that reads a sequence description and then executes it in specified intervals. Perhaps it’s better to explain it on a concrete example. Let say you are making a flash site that needs to animate in. Animation is done programmatically , or timeline based , that doesn’t really matter, but what you need is to call a specific functions at specific times, to let say : have logo come in, have background fade in, have text fly in , have photo fade in.

You could use setInterval, but that can get cumbersome and sometimes intervals can get pretty messy, you’d have problems with scope etc.. Read the rest of this entry »

This extension lets you choose a folder with images , then takes the images from selected folder ,converts them into a movie clips and places them in the library.

You may choose whether you wish to link the movie clips for export and whether they should be exported on a first frame.

Quite useful when you have a bunch of images that you simply need to turn into movie clips… Read the rest of this entry »

This extension was created out of need to quickly wrap png files into swf. I was creating a dynamic multilingual website where each page needed to have an avatar popping out on a page. Of course if there’s only one or 2 you would embed them into the main swf file, but there were quite a few of them, and each of them were using alpha channel.

So you can’t use jpg files , because they don’t have an alpha channel , but you don’t want to use png, because they are too big. Obvious solution is to wrap the pngs into swf files, so you have both alpha channel AND jpeg compression.

This extension lets you select a folder with images you want to wrap, and converts them into swf files of the same filename as the sources. Read the rest of this entry »