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A forum for educators interested in developing mathematics classroom material using Adobe Flash.
Flash Tools for Developers: Function Grapher
This Flash Forum article includes source code and modification instructions that will allow you to customize a basic one-variable function grapher.
Flash Tools for Developers: Parametric Curves on the Plane
This Flash Forum article includes source code and modification instructions that will allow you to customize a grapher for polar and parametric curves in the plane.
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Flash Tools for Developers (AS3): Graphing curves in the plane
Getting the Files
The file planar_tools_as3.zip consists of a compressed folder with the following contents:
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The files fun_graph_as3_template1 (html/swf/fla) for the Function Grapher Template 1.
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The files fun_graph_as3_template2 (html/swf/fla) for the Function Grapher Template 2.
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The files param_basic_as3 (html/swf/fla) for the Parametric Grapher Template.
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The file AC_RunActiveContent.js that is required for the html/swf files to work properly.
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The folder bkde contains the package bkde.as3.*, which includes the classes used in the templates. This folder must be present in whatever directory you are writing your Flash files in.
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The file planar_tools_as3_guide.pdf which provides complete documentation of the classes with references to the three template files for examples.