TOKI WOKI. 

When writ­ing in French I’m always look­ing for char­ac­ters that can’t be eas­ily typed with a key­board (like œ, for exam­ple). I used to go to copypastecharacter.com for its sim­plic­ity: just go to that page, click on a char­ac­ter and boom, it’s in your clip­board, ready to be pasted!

But I wanted some­thing more powerful/thorough that would remem­ber my fre­quently used char­ac­ters. So I wrote Uni­pasta!

Here’s what you should know about it:

1. Every input under the selected char­ac­ter (char, code and hex) can be edited and will update each other. Eas­ily jump to any character!
2. The font met­rics (base­line, x-height and cap-height) are auto-calculated and will help you know where the char lives;
3. Click on the “More Info” link to jump to fileformat.info and access a lot of details about the selected character;
4. Every char­ac­ter your click will be auto­mat­i­cally copied to your clip­board, handy!
5. Use the “Recent char­ac­ters” list to quickly access your favorite ones (lat­est used will always be listed first).

If you think some miss­ing Uni­code blocks are impor­tant to you or if you’d like to add a new char­ac­ter list­ing, just ask for it!

I’m big, now.

Blog is three, wee!

I recently started work­ing with Robot­legs on a daily basis and I’ve never had to write that much cus­tom event classes, so I felt like it was start­ing to be a lit­tle bit bor­ing… That’s why I wrote a pretty basic/simple app that does hard part for you!

Sim­ply enter you cus­tom event’s class name and pack­age, drop in some con­stants and prop­er­ties: you’re all set!

Pro-tips:

1. Reorder the con­stants and prop­er­ties by drag­ging and drop­ping them
2. Use cus­tom types for the prop­er­ties, imports will be taken care of for you
3. Hit “Copy to Clip­board” or “Save As…” for a quick export!

Project is brand new so it might require some fixes or improve­ments… If you have ideas, please share!

And before you ask: no, it wasn’t writ­ten with Robotlegs… But it’s Open­Source so if you want to take a spin and write the RL ver­sion of it, you’ll be able to do so!

Hope this helps!

Hey! Another free AIR app! This time that ain’t no side project I made on my free time for some obscure users, but rather a big thingy for a big com­pany. Namely Foto­lia.

I did all of the cod­ing part (Action­Script 3, Flex 4) and Steaw is respon­si­ble for the UI and all graph­ics. The app is basi­cally a solu­tion for power-users, pro­vid­ing most of the func­tion­nal­i­ties of the web­site and adding some more (such as direct down­load and local library). Allow­ing you to search, browse pre­view and buy all types of medias, includ­ing video and vectors. You can also log into your account and store your favorites in a light­box or cre­ate and fill gal­leries.

This is my first multi-lingual app: to this day it pro­vides 13 trans­la­tions includ­ing Japan­ese, Chi­nese and other funny look­ing languages!

Flex 4

This is also my first big real-life project with Flex 4 and I have to say it’s way better/easier than Flex 3. Really. What changed my life is the way it han­dles states and com­po­nent cus­tomiza­tion via skins… Oh boy, this is easy!

AIR 2.0

Yep, using the brand new AIR 2.0.2, buddy. What for? Mainly for global error han­dling and the almighty open­With­De­fault­Ap­pli­ca­tion (for both folder and medias). I’ve also heard this ver­sion of the run­time is faster and lighter, and we all like that.

Open­Source

As for every project I work on, I try to have some Open­Source bits so that any­one can ben­e­fit from the work and time I spent on it. I asked Foto­lia if the AS3 API I was going to write could be OpenSource’d and guess what, they accepted. So here it is, based on the as3-rpclib and on the as3 Sig­nals logic: fotolia-as3-api. I imple­mented most of (if not all) fea­tures of their offi­cial API so build­ing an AS3 app off of that should be pretty easy, do so!

Go get it!

Yeah, go get it.