createGradientBox Method

This is neat... he helps us visualize how the parameters of the createGradientBox Method actually affect the outcome:

http://polygeek.com/1676_flex_creategradientbox-explorer

undocumented AS3 goodness

These are useful:

http://jpauclair.net/2010/02/10/mmcfg-treasure/

BitmapData Test

I've become interested in bipmapdata so I started a series of tests to see what it was capable of... I though that this test was neat... it demos 300 points randomly bouncing round the screen.

Click anywhere to start them animating and click again to reset:

http://www.jasonleon.com/tests/bitmapTests/randomPixels.swf

JSON validator

I'm a giant fan of using JSON for communicating client to server. I was introduced to this fun tool today!

http://www.jsonlint.com/

It's nice for making sense of what you're deserializing.

HTML5 is coming up

http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/

I'm definitely going to try a test project. The games on kesiev's site run very well. My initial criticism of building games in HTML5 was that all of the prototypes that I had seen prior were slow and jittery. These games, however, are far from that.

Text Layout Format

I just stumbled across this today:

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

It's a neat addition to the adobe text toolset. You'll have to require the 10 player but in return you get the following:

• Additional character styles, including leading, ligatures, highlight color, underline, strikethrough, case, digit case, and more.


     
• Additional paragraph styles, including multi-column support with gutter width, last line justification options, margins, indents, paragraph spacing, and container padding values.


     
• Control of additional Asian text attributes, including Tate Chu Yoko, Mojikumi, Kinsoku Shori Type, and Leading model.



     
• You can apply attributes such as 3D Rotation, Color Effects, and Blend Modes to TLF text without placing it in a movie clip symbol.


     
• Text can flow across multiple text containers. These containers are called threaded or linked text containers.


     
• The ability to create right-to-left text for Arabic and Hebrew scripts.


     
• Support for bi-directional text, where right-to-left text can contain elements of left-to-right text. This is important for embedding English words or Arabic numerals within Arabic/Hebrew text, for example.

PDF 2 SWF

Need to convert a PDF into a SWF?

http://wiki.swftools.org/index.php/Pdf2swf

Now use textsnapshot to muck with the data!


Oh and... Here's a tool for the reverse: http://alivepdf.bytearray.org/?p=364