Yet another Encryption Software?

Today I received an email claiming a new Flash encryption software, Sintrix Flash Encrypt v1.0. It pretends to be the best encryption software, for these reasons: – Flash Encrypt not only uses Obfuscation but also attacks the Decompiler itself. In most cases, Flash Encrypted files are not even readable by Decompilers yet they still play perfectly in a Flash Player. Flash Encrypt makes it so that the Flash Decompiler can not even open the SWF file giving you 100% protection – What makes Flash Encrypt stand out as the leader of any Flash protection is the fact that Flash Encrypt has a full staff of people continuously searching, identifying, and finding ways to defeat decompile software as it is released and then getting it to you the customer via auto-updates. No matter how popular the decompile software, no matter how big or small, Flash Encrypt will defeat it and give your ActionScript protection from theft. Below are some of the Decompile Software packages that Flash Encrypt currently defeats. Imperator FLA, Eltima Flash Decompiler, Action Script Viewer, Sothink SWF Decompiler and more. Actually it comes in 2 versions: Home Edition for $49.99 and Corporate Edition for $149.99.
I will take it a try with the trial version, even if i read on the download note that the demo version comes without the main encryption engine. This demo is only to give you minor protection and give you the basic idea of the look and feel of Flash Encrypt. Should I spend 149.99 and I cannot test its encryption engine before?? This is not good at all!

http://www.sintrix.com/flash-encrypt.html

Drag and Drop Tree component, yet another!

Yes, this is another drag and drop tree component 🙂
It was a log I wanted to extends the built-in Flash mx 2004 Tree component in order to allow drag and drop operations.. but time was always my enemy.
I was lucky that i need one for work.. i look around and i founded some cool other similar components, but i wanted to be able to do it by myself 😉
It just extends the base Tree component and you can set some drag and drop rules, just costants..
for example, i set these costants to be used:

  • TreeDnd.DEFAULT
  • TreeDnd.DENYALL
  • TreeDnd.DENYDRAGFOLDER
  • TreeDnd.DENYDRAGITEM
  • TreeDnd.DENYDROPFOLDER

they can be used in combinations:
myDnd.dragRules = TreeDnd.DENYDRAGFOLDER | TreeDnd.DENYDROPITEM
in this way you cannot drag a folder, only leaf nodes, and you cannt drop the dragged item into a leaf node, only into a folder or before/after another leaf node…

[kml_flashembed publishmethod=”static” fversion=”10.0.22″ movie=”/wp-content/uploads/2004/12/example.swf” width=”550″ height=”400″ targetclass=”flashmovie”]

Get Adobe Flash player

[/kml_flashembed]
Download the component here.

MTASC : Motion-Twin ActionScript 2 Compiler

MTASC is the first ActionScript 2 Open Source free compiler.
Right now it’s a command line compiler which get .as files as input and will generate .swf files as output. This means it can be easily integrated into any editor which can run command line tools (such as sepy).
It seems MTASC is more and more quickly than the internal flash compiler:
MTASC is based on the best compiler technology available (namely the OCaml programming language) and thus provide a great speed improvement over MMC (compile around 100 classes in less than 5 seconds).
Since the source code is made more concise by using good technology, it is more easy to maintain and implement robust and proven typing algorithms. The feedback we get from Open Source community help us fixes the bug quickly.

It’s made using OCaml as programming language.
The mailing list is available at this link: http://lists.motion-twin.com/mailman/listinfo/mtasc
For examples, download and bugs refer to the linked MTASC page.

flash player 8 demo in tokyo

via Moock.
I just read on moock’s blog that kevin lynch, macromedia’s chief software architect, demonstrated the next generation version of the flash player at the macromedia flash conference in tokyo, japan.
only a few features were shown, but it seems they are great, expecially, as we were already heard few time ago, for the graphics.
There is a video available, taken from te conference, in which these features are shown:

  • a new type-rendering engine
  • performance improvements
  • bitmap effects (blur, dropshadow, colour matrix etc)
  • realtime video alpha channel

video is avail at different locations:
Carl-Alexandre Malartre from ScoLab
>> low bw (5mb 320×240, 15fps)
>> med bw (14.5mb 320×240, 30fps)
>> high bw (42mb, 640×480, 30fps)

Ultrashock
>> low bw (5mb 320×240, 15fps)
>> med bw (5mb 320×240, 30fps)
>> high bw (42mb, 640×480, 30fps)
Link: http://www.moock.org/blog/archives/000146.html

A pure Flash Blog. OpenSource!

Guys at Motion4graphics.com have developed a flash blog ( www.flashblog.org ), i think the first Weblog made in Flash/Php/MySQL Opensource.

It is a project that is in Beta test, but that the main features already are already included. As they said: “We wished to be extending benefits little by little, we didn’t want to reinvent the Weblog”.
Next there will be the feature to donwload all the archives.

The main features are actually:
– Front End, developed in Flash.
– BackEnd developed in Php/MySQL
– Creation of categories.
– Searches.
– Limitation of entrances by page.
– extended Entrances (read more..).
– Publisher wysiwyg.
– Multiple users and authors.
– Limitless vertical Stage.
– Function botons back/ahead.
– Source codes FLA including.

Jpegs can be added, including the limitations of flash which can load only non progressive jpegs.. maybe they can add the GD support (or also image magik) in order to let all jpegs compatible and also PNG (waiting for gif support come back in the GD lib) ?
I’m still trying to understand how is set the framework.. how data is transmitted to flash (xml, remoting or flat loadvars)..

It seems a really promising project. take a minute to look at this.

FP XHTML Render

Today I received an email announcing me the new sourceforge project regarding Flash.
This is the direct link to the download area:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/…download
Reading the documentation (contained in the .zip file d/dl):
The project is intended to extend Macromedia Flash player (version 7.x or +) capabilities to parse XHTML formatted pages and render them into the Flash stage.

FP XHTML Render supports the most common HTML tags

It also supports various CSS attributes.
In fact, once downloaded the zip file from sourceforge i see at the example provided.
The test html page with table and cells too is perfect rendered, as i can see..
Now, let’s try something more complex than the provided example 😉

author is Marco Sangalli.
thanks!

8 Ball

I know there are already many many topics around the net about the new Flash 8 (codename 8ball)..
So i just want to report you a link of Mike Chambers’ blog where he seems make things clear…
I read too many comments around and I think people is talking too much about something which probably in Macromedia is still only an idea…

Flash 8 is coming?
I hope not too fast.. I have to learn already flash mx 2004!

Link: http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/006055.cfm