Flash 8, What's new

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Date: Wed, Sep 21, 2005
Speaker: Phillip Kerman and Robert Reinhardt

Location:
Portland State University
631 SW Harrison, Room 190
School of Business Auditorium

Time: 7:15 to 9:00pm

Come see in-depth and practical demonstrations of the key new Flash 8
features, including:

How to produce videos with alpha channels for runtime compositing
effects.
The Improved workflow and skinning capabilities of the new video
playback component.
How to use Filters and Blends at runtime to produce expressive images
that download quickly.
The new scaling options for strokes and movie clips, including Scale-9
that eliminates distortion.
You'll also get highlights of other improvements ranging from the
subtle to the revolutionary, including:

the new Flash 8 inline Express Install
pixel level control via the BitmapData class and transformation classes
the Flash mobile emulator
new supported image formats
Fireworks PNG integration
the ExternalInterface class that improves browser communication
the new font rendering options in "FlashType"
user interface improvements to the Flash environment (panel groups,
panel snapping, help searching, text handles, object-level undo, and
the return of Normal Mode--now called "Script Assist"!)