FLAVer is a free app that opens Flash FLA files in the version of Flash that was used to create it. That means you don’t have to open the version of Flash you want to open an FLA in before you open the FLA. This is great when you have projects that were created in different versions of Flash but must remain in those FLA versions in order for others to use them.

I have been using FLAVer for more than a year internally at Northcode since all of our example FLAs are written in MX, for maximum user compatibility, but other projects were done in MX04, and more recently 8.

Since Tim created FLAVer I don’t even think about opening an FLA.

Download it here.

As an aside, this functionality has been active in SWF Studio V3 since it came out. As long as your FLA is named the same as your main SWF, and it is located in the same directory (the typical case), you can press Alt+F and the correct version of Flash will open your FLA.

Northcode’s SWF Studio 3.1 has been released. This release comes out not too long after the 3.0 release in July. Why so soon? We wanted to release around the time Macromedia was releasing Flash 8, the new features kick ass, and all the hard work that went into 3.0 is still paying off by speeding up the time it takes for us to add new features and make bug fixes, so we were able to get the new stuff in pretty fast.

So what’s new? (more…)

When a Macromedia product announcement (or almost any announcement for that matter) comes out you know just about everyone blogs it. Well, to the cliff we go my fellow lemmings … (more…)

All I have to say is … enh.

There was a lot of hype when gLIC was announced. It took a LONG time for it to get released, however it was explained as business matters rather than any issues with the components. This was confirmed by the announcement that gLIC was to be distributed by Metalliq and branded as mCOM.

Well, it’s finally been released. Here is the demo page:
http://www.metaliq.com/mcom/

Perhaps it’s just the online demo that has issues, but my first impressions are:
- looks good
- seems quick
- has inconsistent event behaviours
- some items do not work as one would expect a UI element to work
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Shut up! Don’t respond! Na … wa … dnt … Just shut up! (more…)