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Astro Sneak Peek

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Attendees at the Adobe MAX conference in Chicago were today shown a sneak peek of some of the new features coming in Flash Player 10 (Codename Astro).

On show was the much anticipated advanced text layout with bi-directional text support (at last), 3d effects (a new ‘z’ axis property on DisplayObjects) and something you can play with right now, support for custom filters and blendmodes.

Custom effects are written in a new image processing language (Codename Hydra). You can play with custom effects right now, by downloading the new Adobe Image Foundation (AIF) Toolkit Technology Preview which was released on labs today.

People have already being releasing source-code for some effects that they have written with the new language, after only a few hours of it being available. Check them out.



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Nov 17, 2007 11:34

Thanks for the informations ,but i wish you tell us more about new features in the new flash player ,and how does this effect the design in flash Cs3

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