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My CS4 just crashed.  Again.  Although I try to be good about saving, sometimes I get focused on what I’m doing, and it’s always at these times when Flash decides that clicking that last frame was in some way offensive.  Much swearing ensues and a short break is taken, then I begin that complex string of animations again.

This time though I thought to employ google, and turned up a neat little extension on flashguru: Flash Auto-Save.

Pay no attention to the comment about it not working on CS4, I’ve installed it and it works fine.  The only thing to be aware of is that it needs to be visible at all times, and hiding it in a panel group will stop it working.

I hope this saves more people a bit of fury

Well, kinda.

Last weekend I wrote a tutorial on an AS2 sliding tile puzzle game I wrote a little while ago. It was my first attempt at writing coherent instructions for others to follow, so I was very pleased when it was accepted by the wonderful folks at </dream.in.code>. Thanks to Chris et al!

For anyone who isn’t familiar, DIC is a large community of programmers and web developers who are very helpful and knowledgeable on a huge range of technologies.

Here’s the direct link to the tutorial: http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic45655.htm

Enjoy!