Bandwidth Simulators and other Usefull Dev Tools

programming flash
1

http://xat.com/wo/index.html ($100 +/-)
http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/ (free)

two nice bandwidth simulators.

Please post only links to software
you find usefull in your Flash Developpment here.
And use reply title to say what it’s for.
Thx.

2

http://www.genable.com/aso/

will (try to?) hide your code from decompiling software.

3

I have tried ASO… it does pretty much nothing (unlike the outdated example on their site) :beam:

here are the results i got using ASV 3.1:
[COLOR=burlywood]Original script:[/COLOR]

/*          declaring variables and objects              */

Image = {width:192, height:192};
numOfBars = 12;
widthOfBar = Math.ceil(Image.width/numOfBars);
easing = 3;

/*         outlining the stage area          */

beginFill(0x0050FF, 10);
lineStyle(0, 0x0050FF);
lineTo(Stage.width-1, 0);
lineTo(Stage.width-1, Stage.height-1);
lineTo(0, Stage.height-1);
lineTo(0, 0);
endFill();

/*             declaring prototypes                  */

// easing effect:

MovieClip.prototype.moveMe = function(targetX, targetY, acc) {
	this._x += (targetX-this._x)/acc;
	this._y += (targetY-this._y)/acc;
};

// masking effect:

MovieClip.prototype.createMask = function(num, easing) {
	this._x = num*widthOfBar;
	this.beginFill(0xFF9900);
	this.lineTo(widthOfBar, 0);
	this.lineTo(widthOfBar, Image.height);
	this.lineTo(0, Image.height);
	this.lineTo(0, 0);
	this.endFill();
};

// create an empty movieclip, attach symbols from library, create 
// masking effect and set the easing effect

for (i=0; i<numOfBars; i++) {
	createEmptyMovieClip("mc"+i, i);
	this["mc"+i].attachMovie("fmxlogo", "image", 0);
	this["mc"+i].easing = i;
	this["mc"+i].createEmptyMovieClip("mask", 1);
	this["mc"+i].mask.createMask(i);
	this["mc"+i].image.setMask(this["mc"+i].mask);
	this["mc"+i].onEnterFrame = function() {
		this.moveMe(_xmouse, _ymouse, this.easing*3+1);
	};
}

// switch images:

onMouseDown = function () {
	(myVar == "cfmxlogo") ? myVar="fmxlogo" : myVar="cfmxlogo";
	for (i=0; i<numOfBars; i++) {
		this["mc"+i].attachMovie(myVar, "image", 0);
		this["mc"+i].image.setMask(this["mc"+i].mask);
	}
};

[COLOR=burlywood]Extracted script (obfuscated version):[/COLOR]

    Image = {width:192, height:192};
    numOfBars = 12;
    widthOfBar = Math.ceil(Image.width / numOfBars);
    easing = 3;
    beginFill(20735, 10);
    lineStyle(0, 20735);
    lineTo(Stage.width - 1, 0);
    lineTo(Stage.width - 1, Stage.height - 1);
    lineTo(0, Stage.height - 1);
    lineTo(0, 0);
    endFill();
    MovieClip.prototype.moveMe = function  ([COLOR=red]1[/COLOR], [COLOR=red]2[/COLOR], [COLOR=red]3[/COLOR]) {
        this._x = this._x + ((1 - this._x) / 3);
        this._y = this._y + ((2 - this._y) / 3);
    };
    MovieClip.prototype.createMask = function  ([COLOR=red]1[/COLOR], [COLOR=red]2[/COLOR]) {
        this._x = 1 * widthOfBar;
        this.beginFill(16750848);
        this.lineTo(widthOfBar, 0);
        this.lineTo(widthOfBar, Image.height);
        this.lineTo(0, Image.height);
        this.lineTo(0, 0);
        this.endFill();
    };
    i = 0;
    while (i < numOfBars) {
        createEmptyMovieClip("mc" + i, i);
        this["mc" + i].attachMovie("fmxlogo", "image", 0);
        this["mc" + i].easing = i;
        this["mc" + i].createEmptyMovieClip("mask", 1);
        this["mc" + i].mask.createMask(i);
        this["mc" + i].image.setMask(this["mc" + i].mask);
        this["mc" + i].onEnterFrame = function  () {
            this.moveMe(_xmouse, _ymouse, (this.easing * 3) + 1);
        };
        i++;
    }
    onMouseDown = function  () {
        (myVar == "cfmxlogo") ? ((myVar = "fmxlogo")) : ((myVar = "cfmxlogo"));
        i = 0;
        while (i < numOfBars) {
            this["mc" + i].attachMovie(myVar, "image", 0);
            this["mc" + i].image.setMask(this["mc" + i].mask);
            i++;
        }
    };

Anyways, here are two useful tools: :slight_smile:

http://www.bomberstudios.com/sciteflash/
http://www.buraks.com/asv

And just in case you’re interested, a review I wrote about ASV will be online soon… :slight_smile:

4

Where is going to be posted the review??? Here on Kirupa?

Tnx a lot

:+)

5

Just tested a cool new freeware: URL2BMP.
What is does: saves any url you feed it as a bitmap, like a screenshot of the site, except if it’s higher than your screen (or larger), with the screenshot you’d never grab all of it, this soft will!
Interface attached.
As simple as it gets, no install, just copy your url into the soft, set output imagesize, click GO, and there you go, lol :wink:
Hope it helps…
Get it here .

6

it captures swf files too, only thing is, it takes the image after like a second or two from the begining of the movie :slight_smile: