Macromedia Flash MX

Flash MX. Macromedia held a launch event in Manchester in 2002, I went with a contingent from the my ICT department. I was into the third year of a Computer Science degree at the time, one of my subjects was Multimedia, so I was a very interested party. Anything that would add a bit of pzazz to be upcoming Multimedia project was OK with me. When I saw what Flash MX could do, I was blown away. Up until that time I had only achieved a very rudimentary form of animation, using Visual Basic programming, based, on setting event timers. Here was a piece of software which would allow me to achieve the sophisticated effects that are taken for granted on websites and ...  Read the complete review

Well folks, it is finally here. Flash MX (6) has been released, and there is no longer the hustle and bustle over little kiddies getting their hands on hacked beta copies. I must say that the first thing that impresses me overall about Flash MX, is the fact that Macromedia, for the most part, listened to the community of Flash developers, and actually let a few of them into the development process. A lot of the quirks and quibbles about the program are now fixed, although a few still remain. Ok, so enough of me babbling on, and onto the actual juicy review. The first thing you will notice about MX, is the new interface. The new properties tab/console allows you ...  Read the complete review