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The Golden Age of Flash

Joakim Roos — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:34:23 +0000

Video after the jump

11 Flash Resources & 11 Must-Have-Utilities for 2009

Joakim Roos — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:28:24 +0000

Hydrotik has posted quite a comprehensive list of resources and must-have-utilities for 2009. I’ve picked a few of my own favorites that I’ll definitely will use or play with during 2009.

Popforge
Popforge AS3 audio library allows you to create a valid flash.media.Sound object with your own samples. This opens up new perspectives for sound design with the current Adobe Flash Player 9. You can create synthesizers, effects and sample-players of any kind. The supplied AudioBuffer class allows you to create endless audio playback.

Prana
Prana is an Inversion of Control (IoC) Container for ActionScript 3.0, and more specifically the Flex framework. It enables you to configure objects and components in a non-intrusive way by describing them in an external xml document and having them loaded at runtime.

GO
The Go !ActionScript Animation Platform is a lightweight, portable set of generic base classes for buliding your own AS3 animation tools. A few community projects can be found at Goplayground.

FLARToolKit
The augmented reality experiment, of which I posted a video about earlier this year – Papervision3D And Real Work Interaction

25 lines of code

Joakim Roos — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:10:29 +0000

The 25-Line Actionscript Contest for decemeber has ended, and I must say i’m extremely impressed with what you can do with just 25 lines of code.

Fireworks

Rampant Growth 3D

Bottle Glass Mountains

Upclose

Replace .swf in the url with .txt and you get the src code. Again awesome work and I’m just in awe of these masters, making beautiful work with just 25 lines of code.

MVC Design patterns

Joakim Roos — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:15:51 +0000

The last few days I’ve been researching MVC Design patterns for AS3, thinking that it could be something I could apply to a project I’ve been working on (Integrating WordPress and Flash), and also a chance to study while working.

Anyways, Sam Rivello has written an excellent introduction about PureMVC over at Adobe Edge.

I also found a smaller implementation called SimpleMVC, that could be useful aswell.

ExportImage

Joakim Roos — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:09:16 +0000

Hasan Otuome over at Flex.Rocks! has written a nice JSFL for exporting library bitmap assets, which is really nice when you dont have the original assets ( say when a designer done the asset layout and you need to re-edit them).

FDT

Joakim Roos — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:28:45 +0000

I’ve bitten the bullet…

Sick and tired of not having code completion for AS3 / AS2 i decided to order FDT 3 Professional. What can I say? It’s like manna from heaven! SWC browsing, Code-completion, ANT build, etc etc.

I also found a great kit for making the repetative process of setting up a new Project in FDT easy, FDTKit.

Oh and when I say, bitten the bullet i of course mean my company bit the bullet

Text Layout

Joakim Roos — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:58:26 +0000

Adobe just released a beta of the “Text Layout Framework” for Flash Player 10, which enables among other things:

Bidirectional text, vertical text and over 30 writing systems including Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Lao, the major writing systems of India, and others.
Selection, editing and flowing text across multiple columns and linked containers, and around inline images.
Vertical text, Tate-Chu-Yoko (horizontal within vertical text) and justifier for East Asian typography.
Rich typographical controls, including kerning, ligatures, typographic case, digit case, digit width and discretionary hyphens.
Cut, copy, paste, undo and standard keyboard and mouse gestures for editing.
Rich developer APIs to manipulate text content, layout, markup and create custom text components.

Downloads http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/textlayout/