{"id":54,"date":"2005-08-09T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T19:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsfeed.fatorcaos.com.br\/wp\/?p=54"},"modified":"2006-09-13T12:35:26","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T19:35:26","slug":"top-3-flash-8-features-according-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Top 3 Flash 8 features, according to me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right now, everybody and their mother<\/a> are talking about Flash 8. I’ll just add a bit more echo to the choir and speak about I<\/em> think are the coolest features about this new version.<\/p>\n

3. Improved readability.<\/strong> With the new font rendering algorithm, Flash will finally get rid of the blurred mess of vector art you get when you try to use antialiased fonts. It’s a bit hard to judge how this has changed from examples of this feature online, and I’m not sure if there’s something changed on the exporting process that would require a real Flash 8 compilation for the features to be available, but all in all, I believe this will be great to work with in the future.<\/p>\n

2. Bitmap caching.<\/strong> Won’t solve everything, but will still fix 98% of the cases where you need speed. No more progressive slowdown on stuff that just gets more complex even though everything’s frozen, yay.<\/p>\n

1. The bitmap object.<\/strong> Seriously.<\/em> With the new flash.Display.BitmapData<\/a> class, you can manipulate images and all that. While this is cool – hey, you can recreate water applets that were already annoying 5 years ago and restart all the madness! – the good thing is that you can acquire bitmap information from movieclips – capturing them using the draw() method<\/a>. In practical words, you can load images, save<\/em> them to BitmapData objects, then reuse them as you need. One of the biggest grips I had with Flash until now is that you couldn’t load graphical assets and duplicate them, neither load them from other movies and attach them around. We finally can.<\/p>\n

Honour mention: Blending modes.<\/strong> Something I have always wanted since what, Flash 3, but I didn’t believe they’d ever add it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right now, everybody and their mother are talking about Flash 8. I’ll just add a bit more echo to the choir and speak about I think are the coolest features about this new version. 3. Improved readability. With the new font rendering algorithm, Flash will finally get rid of the blurred mess of vector art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.zeh.com.br\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}