Flash

Presented By,
Sripad Sarode
 Content
What is Flash?
History of Flash
Action Script
Advantages of Flash
Limitations of Flash
Flash Applications
Conclusion
 What is Flash?
Macromedia Flash is a technology that
allows animations, interactive forms,
games and other features to be embedded
in web pages
Vector based-many individual objects with
individual properties (uses points, lines,
curves, and polygons to represent images)
 Flash Graphics
Uses compact vector graphics. Created
with lines and curves and descriptions of
their properties stored in mathematical
equations

Does support raster images (also called

bitmaps) which are created with pixels
 Flash Graphics
Bitmap Vs Vector Graphics
 History of Flash
Initial release - 1995
Notable product additions
Dec. 1996: Flash name introduced
June 1997: Object Library was introduced
June 1999: Internal variables, advanced
ActionScript
March 2002: Streaming video
Sept. 2003: OOP ActionScript 2.0
April 2007: ActionScript 3.0
 ActionScript
ECMA Script-based programming
language used for controlling Flash
Java Script deals with the structure of
Browser windows, documents and forms
ActionScript deals with structure and
interactivity of Flash movies, including
animations, audio, text and client-side
logic
 Action Script
Different versions of Action Script

Action Script 2.0

Action Script 3.0

 ActionScript
ActionScript 2.0

It allows fully Object-Oriented programming.

Most of the code you write in ActionScript
2.0 looks just like in Java, with few syntax
differences
 ActionScript
ActionScript 3.0

ActionScript 3.0 is third incarnation of

ActionScript Language and an ideal
programming language

It Provides more powerful programming

constructs and core language structure, with
things like event dispatching being built in as
core language objects
 Advantages of Flash
Interactive content
Load faster than HTML
Small file sizes
Stability
Fairly simple to create
Universal ease of use & compatibility
 Be aware
Unintuitive=intimidating

Flash player plug-in

Can be overused
 Applications of Flash
There are many applications of Flash

Rich Internet Applications

Mobile Devices
 Applications of Flash:
Rich Internet Applications
Used for Creating interactive web pages

Animated Movies

Audio and Video

Games
 Applications of Flash:
Mobile Applications
Flash for Mobile devices come in three flavours

Flash for Pocket PC

Flash Lite

Flash Cast
 Applications of Flash:
Mobile Applications
Flash Pocket PC
Flash Player profile that supports all the functionality of the Flash 7
player, including XML and data loading

Flash Lite
Flash Lite provides scriptable animation and user interactivity

Flash Cast
The Latest Mobile technology from adobe, Allows distribution of rich
media services, like News, Animation, Games and Media over a
dedicated mobile network
Examples of Flash Web Site
 Conclusion
Internet users have experienced or
interacted with Flash content whether or
not they knew exactly what technology
they utilized. Flash is Expanding to provide
better user experience and accomplishing
tasks better, simpler and faster.