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Setting up Eclipse + FDT for CS4 Authoring

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Here are the swc paths that you’ll need to setup FDT for writing Flash 10 code.

Base Flash CS4 Class Path
$(AppConfig)/Common/Configuration/ActionScript 3.0/FP10

Class Path for ik.swc
$(AppConfig)/Common/Configuration/ActionScript 3.0/libs/ik.swc

Class Path for player.swc
$(AppConfig)/Common/Configuration/ActionScript 3.0/libs/flash.swc

Where $(AppConfig) = /Applications/Adobe CS4/Adobe Flash CS4

Flashcamp 10 San Francisco – Day 1

Friday, October 10th, 2008

We got our copies of Flash CS4. The UI is pretty sweet. They now have some pretty decent presets for workspaces. Here are screenshots of the six workspaces that come out of the box.

Animator
Flash CS4 Workspace: Animator
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Really nice grass text effect in Photoshop

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

PSDTUTS - Photoshop Grass Text Effect

Collis over at PSDTUTS has a really nice tutorial on how to make text with a grass effect in Photoshop. The results are really nice and the process is simple.

Check it out: Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop – PSDTUTS

Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

MSNBC - Spectra Visual Newsreader

This is a really cool use of Flash 9, Papervision 3D, and web cameras. Beautiful data visualization and UI design.

Spectra Visual Newsreader | msnbc.com

Adobe Flash Player plug-in installer gives error on Mac OS X: error creating file. 1008:5,-5000 Access denied error

Friday, December 14th, 2007

While attempting to install the Adobe Flash Player plug-in on Mac OS X you might get the following error message:

error creating file. 1008:5,-5000 Access denied error

Then you’ll see this error message:

You do not have enough access privileges for this installation

There are two Adobe TechNotes that are associated with this issue (8d46f4f8 and 4aa64290) and 1 decent forum posting.

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