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Posts from ‘May, 2008’

Added to the Adobe AIR Marketplace

Today I submitted my Funky Calc application to the Adobe AIR Marketplace for other people to enjoy.
Almost instantly i got a reply to apply for a Thawte Certificate, so I can sign the applications I develop. Will keep you posted on this one.
You can find it here
Have fun with it

FireLog + AIR Logger v1.0.0

Today somebody at the Flashcoders list asked about logging and tracing, so I decided to put my AIR Logger up for download. It’s a very simple tool and a very simple logger. I use it on a daily basis. It eliminates the use of tracing via the built-in Flash CS3 Debugger.
Install the front end with [...]

Font Embedding in AS3

Just as a reminder for myself, so i wont forget (not my text, copied from here:
The [Embed] meta-tag is used to embed a font. There are 3 different ways to specify the font:

[Embed(source='/assets/fonts/FONT.TTF', fontName="Font", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")]
[Embed(source='C:\WINDOWS\Fonts\FONT.ttf', fontName="Font", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")]

[Embed(systemFont='Font', fontName="Font", mimeType="application/x-font-truetype")]

If you use a relative path, you can start with a slash to begin your path from [...]