Registration is now open for the conference, which takes place October 16-19, 2005 in Anaheim, CA. There are a large amount of seminar sessions related to Flash this year.

Register before August 26 and save $200!

Mike from Nectarine has posted a useful Flash Extension for solving the problem of creating a preloader when you have the "Export in first frame" option checked for a symbol. Your preloader won't actually display until all those elements on the first frame have loaded, which could effectively render your preloader completely useless. The Preloader Shuffle fixes this problem quickly by taking all of the symbols set to export in the first frame and placing them on the timeline in an invisible clip, either by creating a new preloader scene or adding 2 extra frames to the beginning and placing them on frame 2. A huge timesaver.

Mike Chambers announced today that the Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit is being licensed under an open license (based on the Apache 1.1 Software license). The kit allows you to call functions from Flash to JavaScript and JavaScript to Flash. It supports today's most recent browsers and the passing of complex data types (Object, Array, String, Number, Boolean, Date, null, undefined). Further information is available at Macromedia and osflash.org.