Where can I find Flash Plugins?

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Where can I find Flash Plugins?

Are there any plugins for Flash CS3 (or greater) that expand Flash's ability. Actually, i'm sure there are, where can I find them?

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Preferably free and from places besides Adobe. (Not that Adobe's bad, but I want variety.)

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I amreferring to extesions, not components, although references to free component's are also helpful.

There aren't flash plugins per se (that I know about). Although Flash and Photoshop are merging functionality with each new generation of the CS suite (after the corporate merger of macromedia and Adobe). The flash IDE doesn't currently use "plugins" . If you use FLEX or Air SDK/builder there are tons of sample applications that extend the flash player libraries.

fergNab 2010-02-05 06:00:34

What CS are you working with? last I checked there were plugins but I;m looking for non-adobe hosted stuff.

Moshe 2010-02-05 06:06:11

what you are probably thinking of are components, and they are available pretty much anywhere and everywhere. you dump the SWC file into your flash directory (depending on your version) and they appear in the componants tab. They tend to be pretty specialised or company related (eg. Google analytics/maps etc) so your best way is to search by need. Very few I know of come free.

shortstick 2010-02-05 08:36:22

I meant "mxp" plugings, or extensions - not SWC. Thanks though.

Moshe 2010-02-05 11:34:21

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Do you mean Flash Extensions ?

If so here are a few resources(mostly on animation):

Adobe Flash Exchange
Dave Logan's extensions
ToonMonkey extensions
Animonger extensions
Great and up to date extensions from AjarProductions.

If you need something that will declare stage instances, I wrote a tiny extension for that.

What functionality do you need ?

George Profenza 2010-02-05 08:51:29

What does your extension do that Flash doesn't? I'm slightly confused.

Moshe 2010-02-05 11:30:43

Flash declares stage instances by default, but when you want to link a class you write to an Actionscript symbol(instead of using the generated empty class from Flash and you have no access to), you will need to manually declare the instances you are going to use in that class. My extension makes it slightly easier, as it writes some of that code for you.

George Profenza 2010-02-05 12:40:43

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