Posts

• Mar 5, 2010

  Embed system fonts with Flex SDK

  This little ActionScript 3 snippet will convert the system font to a SWF font instance that you can use in your AS3 project.

• Mar 4, 2010

  Enhanced Eclipse icon on macOS

  As many Open Source Software packages lack design appeal, it’s sometimes cool to change how one or the other application looks on macOS Dock.

• Feb 4, 2010

  Enable Quick Look of ActionScript and Flex files on Snow Leopard

  Having Adobe CS4 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard both installed is very likely to mess up Quick Look of Flash ActionScript (.as) and Flex (.mxml) files. Most inconvenient for those used to browsing through the files and looking into them by just hitting the Space key.

• Jan 29, 2010

  Making sense of Flash compile-time and run-time errors

  Every new version of ActionScript has had its impact on the compiler and error handling. Since ActionScript 1, that had loose typing and was suited well for small-scale scripting projects, things have changed considerably.
• Jan 17, 2010

  Flash Platform is at a crossroads

  Since Flash CS5 was announced last year, community has became passionate about pretty much everything Adobe has to say, recently in regard to dumped CS5 beta and the new Flash Player 10.1.