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The Text Layout Framework beta , an extensible library built on the new text engine in Adobe Flash Player 10, is available on Adobe Labs today! The Text Layout Framework (TLF) delivers advanced, easy-to-integrate typographic and text layout features for your Flash and Flex-based content and we have a lot of information and examples to help get you started. In addition to the cool feature demo created for us by the guys at Bluefire Productions (Thanks Micah and Patrick!), we have an online version of the Text Layout Editor component for Flash CS4 Professional, so you can check out the new typographic and text layout capabilities right away. You can download the source code for the feature demo, and we have also provided the source for the Flash MXP for the component. TLF is also already integrated into Flex Gumbo in the Gumbo components .
Emmy Huang
Well, it appears that a lot of people are interested in an Apollo chat via IRC, so I set up a room today if anyone want to chat, or ask questions about Apollo. Well, I know it took forever, but I have finally released the source and an AIR file for Ascension , an Apollo based mp3 player and music explorer. You can download the latest AIR file, as well as grab the source, log bugs, and discuss the player from the Ascension project page at Google Code . There have been a couple of posts over the past couple of days with people talking about using IRC to chat about Flex and Apollo. I think this is an cool idea, and would love to get an room started that stayed pretty active.
Mike Chambers
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Posted on March 16, 2012 by Grant Skinner, 13 Comments We’ve been working really hard on a lot of great stuff over the last couple months, and I’m thrilled finally to be able to share it with the world. We’re going to be releasing EaselJS and a number of companion libraries under the new umbrella name “CreateJS”. CreateJS will be a suite of modular libraries and tools which work together to enable rich interactive content on open web technologies (aka HTML5). These libraries will be designed so that they can work completely independently, or you can mix and match as suits your needs. The initial offerings will be: EaselJS, TweenJS, SoundJS, and PreloadJS.
Introduction It took me 4 days to build an Elevator via Box2D in Corona SDK . I wrote the actual code and API for it in about 30 minutes. Getting the physics to work proved way more challenging than I anticipated. I’m still learning the ins and outs of Box2D as it relates to game development, so wanted to report on how I went about it and what I learned.
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Just as we did in Europe a couple of weeks ago, Lee Brimelow and I are doing a series of Flash get togethers in North America over the next couple of weeks. I will be talking about the roadmap for the Flash runtimes , and leading a discussion around recent development in the Flash world. Lee will be showing off some of the new stuff we are working on around gaming.
For our first meeting of the year we welcome Stuart Mitchell with ‘Agile from the Trenches’ and following him will be Steve Buckley with a session on ‘Profiling’. Thanks to both Shaun Pearce and Liam Flynn for their presentations last month. As usual you can find the videos, presentations etc can be found in the presentations section . On a recent project I was working on, another team required a ratings bar so I thought I put something together. It works very much like a Flex 4 List , but all item renderers at an index below the selectedIndex are selected.
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A lot of discussion lately happening on the topic of Silverlight, especially in relation to Flash. One discussion that is a must read if you haven’t done so already is on Grant’s blog . I’m not going to rehash what Grant has said as he has done a great job presenting a balanced perspective. One thing though that I thought I would add considering my experience with the Microsoft platform is what I feel is another perspective on the driving factor for why Microsoft has been marketing Silverlight so heavily. See one thing about being a .NET (Microsoft Platform) Developer is that Microsoft works hard at providing a complete development platform story. It does so by providing the operating system, servers (IIS, SQL Server, etc), developer tools, frameworks, languages, compilers, and debuggers (I’m sure I left something out).Community for Rich Internet Application Developers and Designers
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The placed character is usually defined earlier in the SWF, and can be anything supported by SWF, e.g., Shape, MorphShape, Sprite, Text, EditText etc. It stays on the display list until it is explicitly removed by the RemoveObject tag. PlaceObject2 might also tell the Flash Player that the placed object is to be treated as a mask (and what depth range will be masked), and might give the character an instance name (if it is a Sprite). Additionally, PlaceObject2 might carry an optional ratio parameter. According to the SWF10 specification, it .. specifies a morph ratio for the character being added or modified.
Last week, if you follow me on twitter you probably saw me tweeting some new wordmark work. Since I don’t work in graffiti I assume it’s easy to read. Thankfully, no-one ever questions why I might be doing something like creating a wordmark.
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