Flash Interactivity - pseudo actionscript

Dear All,

I am still using Xara 4 extreme. I found this to be a very useful tool and have been very pleased with it.

I wish to make some interactive flash files for a project I am working on.

Can anyone give me some feedback how how this could be achieved. I am assuming that I would need to upgrade to Xara 6.

I have looked at Ming as an extension to php. The problem here is lack of documentation.

I am testing SWiSH which thus far I am quite interested in even though I do not find the user interface as easy to use as Xara in terms of creating graphic.

It could be that I end up mixing and matching.

Any thoughts welcome.

Hi John,

X6 flash capabilities have not progressed much from the previous (X4,X5) that you should worry about upgrading (unless anyone knows different).
I use SwiSHmax sometimes when I have the patience along with Xara, although I haven't really created any real interactive files. I would like to do so in the future so keep us posted as to your conclusions and decisions.

Anas

You are correct Anas, no significant improvements of any features other than adding Web Page creation since X¹ was released.

Hi Anas and Bill,

Many thanks for your feed back. I will continue my investigations and feedback what I find. Hopefully it will be of interest to others.

Regards

Mike

Bill

How about adding mouseover and adding links.

Mouseover and Links are not required for graphic design, only for use within web pages. ;)

I have recently taken an interest in Silverlight (now that it is up to version 4 ;) ). Once I get a working knowledge of Silverlight it may be possible to create widgets usable within Web Designer / Designer.