FLASH: Alternative Uses for Flash

[Bill Wagner]

I have been finding a variety of alternative uses for Flash 3.0. This

program, in addition to being the greatest thing since sliced bread for the

web, has many, many, many (to quote Police Academy) uses. We've recently

begun experimenting with the FSCommand interface for the Flash ActiveX

control in Visual Basic and IT IS AWESOME!!!!

Creating buttons in Flash has chopped program overhead drastically and it is

easier to write code. We can do a whole animated menu in Flash that is half

the size of a WMF graphic for one single button label (don't even bother

comparing it with bitmaps)!!!!

Flash kicks the snot out of anything else out there... It will be great for

help files, menus, splash screens, you name it.

Macromedia needs to start marketing this software to its entire potential

audience, not just web designers. Flash is definitely a control that belongs

in everyone's VB control library.

If anyone else is writing some VB code with Flash, we should open the lines

of communication on this topic, coding VB with Flash will help accelerate

its acceptance as a worldwide standard.

On the subject.... more than 35% of browsers have to be using Flash... AOL

4.0 is shipping with it now too.


Bill Wagner

www.execpc.com/~bill73

Media Coordinator




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