1. Presented By, Sripad Sarode
Flash
Presented By,
Sripad Sarode

2. Content What is Flash? History of Flash Action Script
Advantages of Flash
Limitations of Flash
Flash Applications
Conclusion

3. 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 is a technology that allows you to create animations and interactivity on a web page.

4. 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

5. Flash Graphics
Bitmap Vs Vector Graphics

6. 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

7. 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

8. Action Script Different versions of Action Script Action Script 2.0

9. 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

10. 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

11. Advantages of Flash Interactive content Load faster than HTML
Small file sizes
Stability
Fairly simple to create
Universal ease of use & compatibility
The major benefit of Flash over html is that it loads faster, and has much smaller file sizes.
Flash can have moving pictures, games, and interactivity on pages that download in a reasonable amount of time. Flash is more stable than Jave applets, which are sometimes incorrectly programmed and can use up all the resources on your computer causing it to crash (ex. UGA’s Oasis). Basic animation is fairly simple to create, and more advanced animation can be simplified through the use of templates. Another benefit to Flash is that most computers now come with the Flash Plug-In already installed, so you are ready to view Flash files instantly. It also works the same in almost all the browsers out there today.

12. Be aware… Unintuitive=intimidating Flash player plug-in
Can be overused
There are a couple of pitfalls to Flash, but the are easy to overcome. Flash is very in-depth, and can be intimidating. Once you learn the basics of the program, you can create countless animations. You must have Flash Player plug-in to view Flash animation. Also, once people learn the program, they sometimes go overboard with animations on their web page. Remember too much of a good thing is not always good.

13. Applications of Flash There are many applications of Flash
Rich Internet Applications
Mobile Devices

14. Applications of Flash: Rich Internet Applications
Used for Creating interactive web pages
Animated Movies
Audio and Video
Games

15. Applications of Flash: Mobile Applications
Flash for Mobile devices come in three flavours
Flash for Pocket PC
Flash Lite
Flash Cast

16. 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

17. Examples of Flash Web Site

18. 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.