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Season's Greetings!
Well its time to drag out the old Xmas tree from last year and redecorate it for this year's festive season. The gallery supports up to 10 photographs and associated captions. The background color, text and all of the photographs can be easily modified via the Wizard panel.

New Component: Callouts with Images
Callouts are those speech bubbles (or thought clouds) that you often see in cartoons. SWiSH Max3 has extended these components and added image versions. These allow you to add your own images to the callout shapes.

New Component: Ripple Effect
Have you ever wanted to give your logo, website or image a rippling water effect? This type of effect can add a nice touch to any website associated with water. The effect is achieved using Flash 8's Displacement Map Filter. Although the filter is comparatively difficult to use, we have made it easy for you by creating a special Ripple Effect component. The component can also be used to create 'Jelly' buttons such as the one below.

New Component: BulletPoints
Have you ever wanted to do a PowerPoint-like presentation with SWiSH Max3/miniMax3? This new component will make your task a lot easier. The following bullet points are a screen capture of the demo component.

New Component: ClipClone
Have you ever wanted to duplicate a movie clip or shape many times over and over in your movie? Although this can be done reasonably easily using the standard copy / paste commands, the new component 'ClipClone' may speed up the process significantly.

Block-Buster text scroller
Many users have asked how to do a 3-D scroll into the distance text effect as seen in some very popular science fiction movies. Although scrolling text is reasonably easy to achieve, it is far more difficult to give it the 3-D look as seen in the movies. We have done all the work for you and produced a component that you can simply drag onto the stage.

Adding a new section to the HiFi Template
The HiFi project template is one of the more popular free sample templates that is distributed with SWiSH Max3. We've received a number of requests to increase the number of sections...here is how.

Windows 7 Gadgets
The windows sidebar has been removed from Windows 7. However, Gadgets are still supported. Our earlier blog article 'Make a Vista sidebar gadget' explained how to make a gadget for Vista, this followup article explains how to convert these previously described gadgets for use on Windows 7.

Using Content Library
One of the more powerful features of SWiSH Max3 is the availability of the Content Library. The Library allows various Resources to be shared across multiple objects in your movie.

Countdown Timer
Have you ever wanted a countdown timer for your website, perhaps countdown to the New Year eve party? If so, then this component could be for you!

Here are a few forum posts I thought you might find interesting, but given it has been a couple of months since the last SWiSHzine I couldn't possibly select all the best posts, there are just too many!

First I would like to recognise some of the top contributors to our forum community over 2009. Although I'd like to congratulate everyone who helps in the forums, these people have done a remarkable job over the past year. In order of posts these are the top 10:

1. Wolf Gross (- performance!)
2. browndrake
3. s02
4. crslz
5. DrJohn
6. PalmSpringsLen
7. glsmall
8. JimCampton
9. januszr
10. AsimKol

...now, onto the forum topics...

Site Check: The Swishdock
A place where people could buy high quality swishmax files for very cheap prices. Something here may save you time and money.

SWiSH Max3: Zoom In And Out Slider
A sample for anyone wanting to make a zoom in and out slider.

SWiSH Max3: Want To Buy Swishmax 3 For Windows 7
A good discussion about using SWiSH Max3 on a Apple Mac Mini running Windows 7.

SWiSH Max3: Random Daily Message
A discussion on presenting a random daily message in Flash with PHP and SQL.

Site Check: Examples etc., swishmax stuff
An overview of one SWiSH'ers great work.

SWiSH Max3: Dynamic Context Menu
A useful sample of how to make a dynamic r-click context menu on your Flash movie.

SWiSH Max3: New Support For Flash AS2 Classes?
A discussion on using AS2 classes in Max3.

SWiSH miniMax3: Command Line Option
A reminder that Max3 and miniMax3 can be run by command line.

SWiSH Max3: How To Have Image(jpg) Appear And Stay Indefinitely
A very simple example of sliding in images and using them as buttons.

SWiSH Max3: How Do I Link To A Pdf?
Click on a button in your movie to open a PDF...easy!

Site Check: Zentifier - Simple Gmail Notifier
A freebie gmail notifier made with swishmax and swishstudio.

SWiSH Max3: Move With Mouse
Some interesting samples here in response to 'I am trying to recreate how the background moves opposite of how the mouse moves, kind of gives the impression you are looking in that direction.'

SWiSH Max3
Priority: RECOMMENDED UPDATE
Build: 20091130
Lots of improvements including new components.
Note: for SWiSH Max3 Academic version please log into mySWiSHzone.com
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SWiSH miniMax3
Priority: RECOMMENDED UPDATE
Build: 20091130
Lots of improvements including new components.
Note: for SWiSH miniMax3 Academic version please log into mySWiSHzone.com
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