Tutorial Zip Files?
While we are waiting in great anticipation for Lee's new and improved, I can only imagine in AS 3.0 and Flash CS3 & Flex & WPF & whatever other crazy thing he may be working with, does anyone know where we can go to get the zipped source files of his tutorials until then? The FLV's are great, but sometimes some good old reverse engineering is the best way to learn.
thanks!
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Posted on: Tue May 15, 2007 8:52 pm
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Cannot Use The Fla Files From The Tutorial
Hi,
I am a complete nubie. Last year I discovered a tutorial to create a flash slide show using an external xml file. It might have been kirupa's, but the fla file worked with Flash MX version 6. The tutorial Photo Gallery Using XML and Flash looks similar to the other tutorial.
I lost my .fla file when my hard drive failed as did my back ups. I cannot read the .fla files in the tutorial because I have an earlier version of flash (Flash MX 6). Does anyone know of a product that will allow me to view and save the MX 2004 fla as Flash 6?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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<item type="squirrel">
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