Flash @ CSM

Hey Everyone,

as per usual, I’m still getting the lecture written for tonight. We are going to take a look at the various ways we can use and manipulate bitmap data tonight. One of the most important aspects of this we will cover in a few weeks which is loading external assets. Flash supports loading JPG, PNG, and GIF formats at runtime.

One of tonights examples will be saving JPG data out to a PHP script (the example from the book) which will allow you to download the new rendered JPG. We will build a similar drawing program to the one we build last week (this one will be built drawing into bitmap data) then we can use the PHP script to save out our drawing. Although I’m going to demo using this PHP script, PHP is beyond the scope of this class however I’ll show you a couple of cool developer tricks to make using it easier.

See you all tonight!