Breaking up bitmaps

Well it has been some time since my last blog post – nearly three and a half months and now finally I seem to have found a little free time to dedicate to some writing, I tell you dispite all of the fuss in the press lately with the Apple – Adobe thing and also Flash vs HTML5, it seems to me that it sure is a great time to be a flash developer as we seem to be so in demand!

Anyway, to ease my self back into my blog writing I am going to post a little class which I knocked up when working on a project recently as a nice transition effect for adding / removing images.

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TweetParser updated to include usernames and hashtags

Well the title says it all, the tweet parser I created and mentioned in an earlier post has been updated to include @usernames and also #hashtags. The parser will format these tags into html formatted links ready to be included in your htmlText for your AS3 text fields. Updated source files here

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Messing about with the AS3DMod library

I don’t know why but I have had AS3DMod in my collection of libraries for some time now, but have never gotten around to having a play with it….what fun I have been missing out on!. It is a nice lightweight library that allows you to modify the vertex geometry of primitives in many of [...]

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