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xJSFL – That looks pretty cool.

Posted by James - 27/08/10 at 09:08:51 am

xJSFL [http://www.xjsfl.com/] is a scripting library for extending the JSFL functionality of the Flash IDE. Its aim is to do for JSFL what the jQuery library did for Javascript which, by the way, was awesome.  Basically it extends the JSFL syntax to make it easier and faster to develop.

JSFL is a bit of a niché subject, so I can’t imagine it’s going to take off massively, but who knows.  I use JSFL from time to time, so anything that makes those boring tasks easier to automate has gotta be good – maybe this library will be the turning point for its popularity.  Or something like that.

Fixed: mx.accessibility:LabelAccImpl could not be found.

Posted by James - 21/06/10 at 10:06:21 pm

This came up while converting a Flex 3 AIR project to a Flex 4 AIR project.  Luckily, the solution is all in the publish settings.

Uncheck the box which says ‘Generate accessible SWF file’ and the error will go away.

Simple!

Link: Icon Generator Pro

Posted by James - 12/05/10 at 09:05:14 am

I love this application, Icon Generator Pro.  It’s simple, but sometimes that’s a good thing in an application, means it has focus – if you’re going to do something, do it properly – that’s one of the benefits of AIR, it makes it simple to create applications just like this.

What the application actually does is just generate images in a few specific formats, output the files (in a format useful for your own AIR applications) and even, from the looks of it, replace your Twitter icon with your new file.

If you haven’t seen the earlier version of this application, its still available from the AIR Marketplace [link], and the newer version, Icon Generator Pro is available from http://icon-generator.net/.

Link: Introducing ZaaIL – 40+ Image format support for Flash

Posted by James - 28/04/10 at 08:04:13 am

This is something I’ve been waiting a while for!

http://www.zaalabs.com/2010/04/introducing-zaail-40-image-format-support-for-flash/

Alchemy is a technology which makes it possible to convert code libraries from other languages, such as C, into ABC (Actionscript Byte Code) which is the underlying technology behind the Flash Player.  In other words, you can take code libraries from other places and use them in the Flash Player, without any additional dependencies.  It’s not easy mind you, but it is very cool.

I still haven’t figured it out myself, so I’ve been impatiently waiting for someone else to be nice and figure it out for me.  Which they just have!

What actually interests me the most about this is the fact that it adds .raw image support to the Flash Player, which is very much something that I’m interested in getting into ImageSizer.  Expect the next major release to include .raw image support!

Link: Voice synthesis in Adobe AIR 2.0

Posted by James - 09/04/10 at 08:04:27 am

Here’s another cool library for AIR applications.  It works for both Windows and Mac environments, and uses the NativeProcess access of AIR version 2 to tap into the built-in voice synthesis functionality of the operating system.  It’s still in development, is more developed for Mac than for Windows (at the moment) but it’s looking pretty good already.

Should be a good one to have a play with soon!

Read the authors’ blog post here: http://blog.technolog33k.fr/adobe-air/20-12-2009-voice-synthesis-in-adobe-air-with-the-nativeprocess-api/

Access the source code for the library from the Google code repository here: http://code.google.com/p/nativespeech/

Video link: Content-aware Fill in Photoshop CS5

Posted by James - 25/03/10 at 08:03:07 am

It’s well over a year since CS4 came out and introduced some cool new content-aware transformation tools (see an earlier post about content-aware scaling in CS4) and with the release of CS5 it turns out we’ll have another awesome content-aware trick added to our toolkit.  Check this video out:

I just don’t know what to say; it’s totally awesome.

Link: Advanced image filters for Flash Player

Posted by James - 09/03/10 at 09:03:38 am

These filters aren’t really going to visually blow your mind – I think they’re a little more on the techie or specific-use side of things, but that being said, they are very clever & pretty unique so they deserve a mention!

Image processing library for Flash Player: http://blog.joa-ebert.com/imageprocessing-library/
It’s a load of cool filters for images in Flash, including some of the more fancy image enhancement tricks that I can’t say I’ve seen anywhere else, like contrast correction, HDR filters, that sort of thing.

I find the best place to find out all of the gory details with this is in the ASDocs, which lists everything. [http://je2050.joa-ebert.com/imageprocessing/]. Now, on it’s own it might not seem that groundbreaking, but when you combine some of these effects creatively you get some interesting results.  Take the Normalize filter as an example; not much to look at on it’s own, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some blog somewhere talking about the Normalize filter being awesome for colour correction on photos.  And I’m sure every webcam image could probably use a helping hand from the BrightnessCorrection class or the GammaCorrection class.