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It’s finally released! I guess I’m not the only developer who’ve been waiting for this release. One of the new features of Flash Player 9 is the support for ActionScript 3.0. Here are some of the new features of version 3:

• Runtime Exceptions
• Runtime Types
• Sealed Classes
• Delegation
• ECMAScript for XML (E4X)
• Regular Expressions
• Namespaces
• New Primitive Types
• Flash Player API Features
• DOM3 Event Model
• Display List API

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When working on the Quito Project I’ve created a couple of useful components. I now want to make these available for those who want to continue to improve them.
If interested, send me an email or a comment here, and I’ll send the components to you.

You can test the compontents here:

The VideoViewer component
The VideoCurve component
The PhotoViewer component
The Horizontal Slider component

If you want to see them in use, check out The Quito Project

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Quasimondo has created this great randomly generated movie showing random pictures from Flickr and adding sound. Check it out!

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Do you think the MediaDisplay component in flash is to complicated to use…or maybe it’s just plain bad? Here’s an alternative I’ve created a small component which uses the NetStream class. The component takes an array of video urls/files. You can set lots of parameters like width, height, aspect preservation etc, background color and alpha, titles, randomized order, bordersize and color etc. You can also bind the component to other components.

You’ll find my component here: VideoViewer Component

Hopefully some of you likes it! Any feedback would be highly appreciated. I would be very greatful if you post any changes you’ve made to the code here or email it to me at nils@djupvik.org.

Have a nice day!

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