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Building Your First SWF Studio Application

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:53:51 GMT

In less than 10 minutes, this video tutorial will show you how to build your first desktop application using Flash and SWF Studio. The sample application demonstrates how to open an external PDF file. We'll show you ALL of the steps from creating a new FLA in Flash to building your finished EXE file.

IBM Hospitality Kiosk

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:50:34 GMT

Last year an application developer from IBM (Blake Goulette) contacted Northcode about a problem he was having with the embedded browser feature in SWF Studio. The feature they needed was critical to making their new kiosk application a success. They had tried everything, even some other swf2exe tools but nothing worked.

User Profile : Andre Goliath

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:44:16 GMT

You've probably all seen posts by a user named AGo in the Northcode support forums. Some of you may have received help from Andre over the years, used one of the SWF Studio plugins he's written or incorporated his AutoBuilder tool into your daily workflow.

Andre has been using and supporting SWF Studio for many years and he's become like family to us. This recognition of Andre's contribution to the Northcode community is long overdue.

Tray Icons, Mouse Clicks and Popup Menus

Fri, 08 May 2009 14:35:14 GMT

I frequently run into lost souls using our competitors' tools asking how they can control what happens when they click an icon in the system tray. The answer they get is almost universally "you can't control that, Windows handles that for you" but that just isn't even close to true.

So, if Windows doesn't control what happens, how are clicks on the icons supposed to work? There are User Experience Guidelines you can follow, but there are no rules. Ultimately the decision is up to the application that receives the mouse clicks.

I'm going to show you just how much control you have over the behavior of your tray icons using SWF Studio. If you're using one of those other tools, don't worry, your users probably won't notice that weird tray icon behavior...

SWF Studio V3.7 Released

Tue, 05 May 2009 19:49:47 GMT

SWF Studio 3.7 uses Flash Player 10 and supports Flash CS4 and Flex Builder 3.0.

SWF Studio also ships with AS3 class files for our ActionScript API. This means that you can use SWF Studio with tools like KoolMoves 7 that support AS3 but don't work with SWC files.

Splash screens in SWF Studio can now be SWF files and transparency is automatically enabled so your splash screens can be any shape you like. We've also added new Splash.* commands to let you communicate with your splash screens and show or hiide them whenever you like!

Take control of the amount of memory your application is using. Find out how much memory your application is using at any time by calling the new SysInfo.getProcessMemoryInfo function and then call SysTools.releaseMemory to free up virtual memory instantly.

There's a new plugin in this release that provide fast, flexible, byte-level access to binary files of any size. Use the BinaryFile plugin to seek to any location in the file, read or write as many bytes as you like.