Actually, I’ve had the SwishMax 3 Flash creation software installed on my computer for quite some time now, probably several months. I just started using it today, having overcome the phobia associated with upgrading from the old package. You get used to using something and since it’s comfortable, you avoid the change - like breaking in a new pair of boots.

I dug up the source from my “Glock around the clock” project from last November and invested a little time learning the new tool set. I figured that I should rework an old package rather than starting something from scratch. I got it going a while ago using the Flash creator.

scripterAnother thing I wanted to mention is the on-line tool that I developed for embedding Flash objects on our websites. I upload the object to the server and then specify the URL of the object to my on-line tool, which then generates a JavaScript Embedded in PHP script, plus the JavaScript that I use to invoke the object instance in the web page. All I have to do is input the required parameters, hit ‘generate script’ and copy/paste the code it generates to the server and the embed tags in the post. Flash, produced this way, seems to work with most of the browsers out there, although if it works with IE and Firefox/Mozilla then that’s 95% of the users that come to this site. If you DON’T have JavaScript enabled, you won’t see the animation.