UPDATE: There are ASC2 changes to the [Inline] feature since preview 3 (Oct 8th) There are many changes coming to tooling around ActionScript. One of the latest changes is something you can find in the labs.adobe.com release of Flash Builder 4.7. It’s the new ActionScript compiler, aka ASC2. Thibault does a great introduction blog post on the new compiler. ASC2 has a lot going on, from better compiler times to supporting the new...

Developers have been asking for the ability to get the stack trace of errors in the release Flash Player. With the release of Flash Player 11.5 Beta this feature makes it debut. This is a beta release but I wanted to show you what it looks like and explain what this feature is about. The code is located on my Github actionscript examples repo: https://github.com/renaun/ActionScriptExamples/tree/master/FlashPlayer11_5Beta The main app uses a...

Personally I had a great experience last year attending a hackathon as a developer, as well as helping out at a few other hackathon type of events. It’s a great environment to test your skills, meet great people, and have a bunch of fun. It’s usually pretty intense but well worth it.Adobe is doing a Flash/AIR specific game jam in San Francisco on October 19th-20th. You can check out the details here –...

Have you had a chance to check out the gaming.adobe.com site? If not, you’re missing some great showcase apps and resources for game developers working with Flash and AIR. One of these resources is a game called Waste Invaders which also has source code available. http://gaming.adobe.com/getstarted/ Waste Invaders is a great web and mobile example of a Stage3D top down airplane shooter game. It would be cool to be able to control the web...

If you have not stayed up with all the changes in the runtimes you should check out whats coming in the upcoming “Dolores” release. You can check out the public beta drops of AIR 3.4 and Flash Payer 11.4 on labs.adobe.com. There a lot of very cool features coming in 11.4, here is the list from the release notes. Release featuresActionScript Workers (Flash Player) Stage3D “constrained” profile for increased GPU reach...

One of the new features in Flash Player 11.3 and AIR 3.3 is called texture streaming. This feature is a new parameter called streamingLevels in the createTexture and createCubeTexture methods of the Context3D class. That means this feature relates to Stage3D. Here is the text from the ActionScript reference documentation: streamingLevels:int (default = 0) — The MIP map level that must be loaded before the image is rendered. By default, the...