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Unity Technologies Begins Unity 3.5 Open Beta With Flash Player Deployment

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:00:00 CST

Developers Can Now Enter the Unity "Flash in a Flash" Creation Contest With a $20,000 USD Grand Prize

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 22, 2011) - Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for game, app, simulation and interactive 3D for the web, iOS, Android, consoles and beyond, is happy to announce the release of the Unity 3.5 open beta including a developer preview for the highly anticipated Adobe� Flash� Player deployment add-on. To celebrate the sneak peek of this add-on, Unity Technologies will be hosting a Flash platform game development contest where contestants can enter their Unity-based Flash titles for the chance to win the $20,000 USD Grand Prize.

UML4AS - UML for ActionScript and Java 1.0.0 Released

no@spam.com (Cristian Spiescu) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:00:00 CST

The first production ready version of UML4AS - UML for ActionScript and Flex. The developer friendly tool for UML modeling with code synchronization for ActionScript, Flex and even Java!

BananaTree Design Releases "Swing Package for ActionScript" (SPAS 3.0) as Open Source

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:00:00 CST

Core Open Source SPAS 3.0 Technologies Now Available for Rich Internet, Desktop and Mobile Applications

Adobe Touch Apps Available in Android Marketplace

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:00:00 CST

SAN JOSE, Calif., — Nov. 15, 2011�—�Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of the�Adobe Touch Apps�in the Android Marketplace. Adobe� Touch Apps are a family of six intuitive touch screen applications, inspired by Adobe� Creative Suite� software, to bring professional-level creativity to millions of tablet users. Designed to work with both finger and stylus input, the apps address multiple areas of the creative process: Adobe� Photoshop� Touch for image editing; Adobe� Collage for moodboards; Adobe� Debut for presenting and reviewing creative work; Adobe� Ideas for sketching; Adobe� Kuler� for exploring color themes; and Adobe� Proto for web site and mobile app prototyping. Announced at MAX 2011 in October, the apps are available today for Android 3.1 or higher. Adobe Ideas is already on iOS and Adobe expects iOS versions of the other 5 apps to be available in early 2012.�

Product Review: Developing with Creative Suite CS5.5

no@spam.com (Gerard Mason) — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:00:00 CDT

A look at the recent release by Adobe of Creative Suite CS5.5, the new features, and how they may or may not be useful to you.

Spell Checker for Flash

no@spam.com (Chris Bristol) — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:30:00 CDT

Yes, that's right - for Flash, not Flex. Adobe's beta project Squiggly is in it's prerelease 6 version. I wanted to add this capability to a Flash project I was working on and had a hellva time finding out anything about using it in Flash. The official Squiggly page states: "While the included UI class requires the Flex SDK, the core spell checking engine can be used in pure Flash applications without any dependency on Flex packages." This gave me hope, and, as you may have suspected, I did finally find my way.

I Trace, Therefore I Know Where I Am

no@spam.com (Thom Duppstadt) — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:00:00 CDT

Logical and consistent tracing is essential, particularly when it comes to large projects. I've heard some purists say that your final output should not contain any traces. Agreed; however, you can simply do this with the 'Omit Trace' checkbox in the Flash publishing options. Yes, this should be done for a cleaner output and possible boost in performance but as far as removing all of them from your source code? HELL NO! Trace keeps you sane, it let's you know it's doing or NOT doing what it's suppose to. Just because your program purrs like a kitten doesn't mean you don't have issues. Like events being triggered 100 times unwittingly or objects on the stage that are declaring themselves when you thought you already removed them. Keep your trace! Just organize them and remove what's unnecessary.�

ActionScript 3.0 Best Practices: Using the EventCollector Class

no@spam.com (Pascal ECHEMANN) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:30:00 CDT

Difficulty: Easy
Time Taken: 20 minutes
Description: In this article we will learn how to use the EventCollector class, for easily preventing memory leaks due to events management in ActionScript 3.0.

Nine Vectors announces version 1.1 of Esquimo

no@spam.com (ActionScript.org Press) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:30:00 CDT

Nine Vectors is pleased to announce new version (1.1) of their main product Esquimo - application that will allow you to create the 3D animation as a SWF file played by Adobe Flash Player. The generated SWF file has its own, optimized for the purpose of efficiency - engine for the animation. Inventive ways of saving the scene allows to achieve very small output file sizes. Without the use of textures, the output file can consume a little more than 30kB. Esquimo is equipped in user-friendly GUI and does not require knowledge of AS3, causing the creation of 3D animation being at fingertips, even for novice webmasters.

Create your own Events

no@spam.com (sachin patil) — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:00:00 CDT

The focus of this article is to know about power of your own events. Considering you are familiar with events, still we will see some brief introduction about events as it is basic of your own events.