Mark Guzdial wrote:
> 
> I'm giving a big Squeak demo next Thursday (to a crowd of Java zealots --
> gulp!), and I'm gathering cool resources.  I'm having a heckuva time
> finding good flash files to demo.  Most of those that I find on the net are
> embedded in an HTML file already, and I can't figure out how to download
> them directly.  I was able to get some from downloading Flash, but flash
> movies of menus and dialog boxes are less than exciting.
> 
> Could anyone, please,:
> - either send me a cool Flash movie or two to demo, or
> - point me to where you can actually DOWNLOAD good flash file demos?
> 
> I'm particularly eager to show Andreas' cool trick of selecting a
> sub-element of the Flash movie and pull it out.  But again, pulling out a
> menu item out of the provided Flash demos just isn't much fun...:-)

You can always go to a web page that contains a flash animation, view
the source and find the exact name of the flash file (normally a .swf
extension).   You can then tell your web browser to get that file
directly.  If you web browser's MIME type is NOT set correctly, you
should be able to save it to disk.  You may have to disable .swf in
whatever browser you use to be able to save to disk.  Scamper will allow
you to save the file without changing MIME types.

Example:
There is an interesting flash screen on www.creeperlagoon.com (amazing
band!).
Looking at the source code, there is an embedded flash file
movieyumyum/creepersunrise.swf.  Pointing my web browser to:
www.creeperlagoon.com/movieyumyum/creepersunrise.swf and bingo! The
flash file I want.

Ivan

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