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ActiveDen: Flex Upload Instructions

Step 1: Prepare Your File

  1. Before you start building your file take a look at the visual and technical standards we expect from files uploaded to ActiveDen. Read more.
  2. Comment your code so that it’s easy to understand and modify. Read more.
  3. Create useful, written instructions in English for the buyer in either pdf, doc, txt, or html format. You may create video or flash instructions in addition to, but not instead of text instructions. Read more.
    Helpful Hint – Rather than taking time to create a new instructions template, use this one.
  4. Do not use spaces or special characters in your file names. Use only letters, number, hyphens (-), and underscores(_). For example, your_image.jpg and yourImage.jpg, not your image.jpg or ~yourimage.jpg. Read more.
  5. Files often react differently locally and online, so be sure to test your files thoroughly on a server.

Step 2: Make Sure That You and Your File Don’t Get Banned

  1. Do not upload decompiled files. Authors who upload files containing signs of having been decompiled will be banned, even if the file you decompiled is your own!
  2. Only use images, audio, video, and code you have the rights to use. It is YOUR responsibility to ensure you have the rights to use any materials. We will remove or reject your file if it violates another person’s copyright. Please review this article for more information on acceptable assets.
  3. Do not create a file based on a tutorial.
  4. You may not copy the design, functionality, or code of files from ActiveDen or elsewhere. There’s a fine line between being inspired by another file and copying it. If you upload a file that looks too similar to another file, it will be removed and you will receive a warning.
  5. Do not use trademarked logos or products in your file.

Step 3: Upload Your Files

  1. Title and description
    1. Write your title and description in the text areas. Read more.
    2. Write your title and description in a text document and save it so that if your file is rejected, you won’t have to re-write everything.
  2. Thumbnail
    1. Create an 80 x 80 pixel jpg or png thumbnail.
    2. Click Upload and select the thumbnail on your computer.
    3. Under the word “Thumbnail”, click the dropdown and select the thumbnail.
  3. Preview Image - fullscreen previews only.
    1. Create an 590 x 300 pixel jpg preview image.
    2. Click Upload and select the preview image on your computer.
    3. Under the words “Preview Image”, click the dropdown and select the preview image.
  4. Preview Source
    1. Name your main swf preview.swf (case sensitive).
    2. If you’re uploading a fullscreen preview, name your html page index.html (case sensitive).
    3. If your preview can’t show the true functionality, fake it. If your file is a preloader and you want the potential buyer to see it more than once without having to clear their cache, make the preview a looping animation rather than an actual preloader.
    4. Unfortunately, previews may not use PHP or any other server-side script. Any PHP functionality must be stripped out for the preview. For example, if your file calls dynamic content from a database, for the preview, call static content instead.
    5. Zip up all the needed preview files (no source, please) and name it preview.zip.
    6. Click Upload and select preview.zip on your computer.
    7. Under the word “Preview Source”, click the dropdown and select the preview.zip.
  5. Main Files
    1. Zip (not Rar) all the files the buyer will need, including all the source and instructions, and name it main.zip. Please note that all source is required.Note: All files meant to be deployed on the web now require a sample .html page.
    2. Click Upload and select main.zip on your computer.
    3. Under the word “Main File(s)” click the dropdown and select main.zip.
    To save time, instead of uploading your thumbnail, preview image, preview source, and main files individually, you can upload them all at once. Just click upload and ctrl+click all the files.
  6. Categories & Attributes
    1. Select a sub-category within the Flex category.
    2. Write the published size of your main swf. This is the total size including the framework, not the size without the framework.
    3. Select what version of Flex your file opens with.
    4. If your file is a fixed size, write the resolution, in pixels, in the text box under where it says “Resolution”.
    5. If your file is resizeable, select “Resizeable” from the dropdown.
    6. Select your SDK Version version.
  7. Notes to the Reviewer
    1. When using images containing recognizable human faces or private locations, link to a scanned version of a filled out and signed model or location release.
  8. Read the Disclaimer and Click the Checkbox.
  9. Click Upload and Make Some Money!
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