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Expert Profile: Scott Valentine

Expertise: Actionscript 2, animation tools, script-based animation, OOP questions, and optimization. I can also talk about design considerations, development approaches, and interaction with other technologies, as well as integrating work flows with Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks.

Experience in the area
I've been using Flash since v4, and have been on prerelease (beta) teams for 5, MX and MX2004. I have more than ten years of professional experience developing web sites and small applications.

Education/Credentials
Bachelor's degree, Physics

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What do you like about this subject? Flash gives me the ultimate flexibility. I often use Flash to build prototypes for websites, GUIs, and even simulations of desktop applications.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field? I am working on AS3, and hope to begin application development using Flex/AS3 in the near term. For long term and self-indulgence, I want to build math-based organic art, pieces that are pretty much all code, that emulate organic movement and growth.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know: Flash movies can be made to respect browser navigation buttons, specific bookmarks, track user interactions, and even play nice with search engines.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject Flash is largely a love/hate ordeal, with sharp feelings about whether it should be used at all. There are all kinds of excuses not to like Flash; accessiblity, poor design, security flaws, search engine ranking, etc. However, all of these issues can be handled by educated, thoughtful developers and designers. In many cases, there is no practical reason not to use Flash for general website design.

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Prestige Points: 220
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Total Questions (since joining AllExperts)		64

Recent Reviews from Users

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User Comments

Thank you very much for the information, it really helped me out.
(marin on 02/29/08)

Thanks Scott. A thorough answer to my question.
(phil on 02/26/08)

thank you v much :)
(adam on 02/23/08)

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Recent Answers from Scott Valentine

2008-07-22 Flash help: Thanks for your question! The help file is referring to arguments in a function. In this case, you can use a string, which amounts to using a variable that you define in another part of your code, or...

2008-04-10 SWF files offline: If I understand properly, you are trying to figure out primarily how to save SWF files from a website? I am obligated to tell you that you should only save online files with permission from the content...

2008-04-08 SWF files offline: Hi, There is a standalone version of the Flash player, but it seems not to be working for you. The simplest solution is to open your browser and drag the SWF to the browser window. That should let you...

2008-03-30 Flash 9: Another good question :) Unless you are a developer, there really is no need to support multiple versions of the Flash player plugin. This is mainly for testing and compatibility. However, if you...

2008-03-29 Flash 9: Thanks for your question, Kee. Without seeing the actual sites, it's a good bet that the problem is poor coding on the part of the developer. Some of the "sniffer" code used to detect player version...