AS3 Unicode Font Inclusion

During the final throws of a recent project, it occured to me that usual method of including various language specific unicode glyphs, had changed significantly in Flex / non-flash IDE developement.

Installing Ant in Flex Builder 3

Until Flex Builder 3 Stand Alone includes Ant built in you will have to install it separately. For those that are not familiar with Eclipse, this can be tricky to install.The following is the revised steps for Flex Builder 3 Stand Alone.

Bitmap.scale9Grid() doesn’t do what it says on the tin!

Having only recently got discovered actionscript controlled 9-Slice scaling ( a late starter I know!), I was then completely bemused to discover that the Bitmap class does not inherit such capabilities.

Flash Player 10 Debug / Standalone

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE DEBUG / STANDALONE Flash 10 PLAYER:

Adobe should try to clear this up as it is quite confusing. It seems that the Flash 10 Player doesn’t come inside the updated Flex SDK packages. And their website only links to the…

Flash 10 : SaveBitmap Class

One of the things that really annoyed me about pre-Flash Player 10 AS3, was the security sandbox restrictions of accessing the local file system using FileReference. To load an image into an application for example, meant bouncing it’s byteArray off a server-side script and back…