Jack Doyle of GreenSock posted another cool class called TextMetrics that highlights (puts a movie clip over a text area’s instance) all instances of a string throughout a text area. This can be very useful for building search engine-like apps.
So, as you can tell, I just found GreenSock, and Jack Doyle is putting out some awesome classes. Oddly enough, he’s in St. Charles, IL, about 20 minutes from Streamwood where my parents live (and where I intend to move back next summer). This XMLParser basically turns all your nodes into an array […]
This TransformManager is an awesome class to put in the ole code bank. It basically allows you to scale, rotate, and move clips on the stage as a user. It has some great features and is really useful for applications where you may be building an e-card creator or something of the like.
Got this via Big Spaceship. TweenLite and TweenFilterLite are two classes used to tween filters and other stuff in AS3. Only 5k total!
UPDATE: There is an AS2 version of both classes available through the site’s links.
Trevor McCauley (better known as Senocular) posted up some really cool layout classes which make a sort of Flex-esque layout possible in Flash. Really nice stuff.
Jon Beebe posted about a script he converted and made usable in AS3 for detecting multi-key combinations. Pretty neat.
Andrew Fitzgerald (otherwise known as visualcondition on Kirupa) came up with a new, very lightweight tweening engine that he likes to call Twease. It’s only 2k so it’s perfect for doing stuff like banners and other size controlled projects.