20081021 Embedding fonts in ActionScript 3, using Flex SDK

Say you have a class and you want to use an embedded, non-system font in the class. That way you can rotate, scale, change alpha and apply filters to the text. And this is how it would look like, roughly: public class MyClass extends Sprite {         [Embed(source="./../assets/MyFontLightItalic.TTF", fontFamily="MyFontFamily", fontWeight= "light", fontStyle [...]

20080228 Open source Flex is great

As I found about the news, I spent some time yesterday having a look at the project’s files. It’s always interesting to have a look at the internals of the software for curious-like-a-cat people like me… but honestly, I’d rather have the Flash player open sourced. That would help to fix, or at least to [...]

20071104 Warning! Flex Builder Plugin for Eclipse will delete your Eclipse folder!! Aaagh!

Since I don’t have Flash Develop on my mac mini but I have plenty of space because I upgraded its hard disk, I thought it was a good moment to install Eclipse and use it at least for ActionScript3 — although I’m quite tempted of doing the same for PHP stuff; the PHP Development Tools [...]

20060401 What is Flex?

I have been a bit disconnected from the Flash scene for a while and it’s changed quite a lot! So I thought I may share with you my discoverings while I’m getting updated on the latest news. There’s this new thing called Flex. From what I understand, it will allow you to build entire interactive [...]