{"id":364,"date":"2007-10-15T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T11:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2007-10-15T12:49:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T11:49:01","slug":"whats-in-flash-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/364-whats-in-flash-10.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in Flash 10?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the keynote here at <a href=\"http:\/\/adobemax2007.com\/europe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe MAX Europe<\/a> we were shown some of the upcoming features in Flash 10, codenamed Astro. First up is a new text engine which supports bidirectional script. This is great if you want to, errrm, embed some right-to-left text within some left-to-right text; it will all word-wrap correctly. The next feature was more interesting to me: editable multi-column text which flows correctly and allows sane text selection across the columns. Does Adobe plan to take over more and more of the role of HTML within our browsers?<\/p>\n<p>The other Astro feature we saw was new 3D imaging APIs. You will be able to rotate and transform live video &#8211; now where have I seen that before? Astro will also support a graphics programming language called Hydra, which you can use to create custom effects, transformations and blends. You can try out Hydra by downloading the <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.adobe.com\/wiki\/index.php\/AIF_Toolkit\" target=\"_blank\">Adobe Image Foundation Toolkit<\/a>, available as a technology preview. The same technology is used in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/aftereffects\/\" target=\"_blank\">After Effects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that&nbsp; the Flash team is determined not to be outdone by, you know, those other guys.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:23f0aefb-a444-49cb-b46e-433a5f512093\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/flash%2010\" rel=\"tag\">flash 10<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/hydra\" rel=\"tag\">hydra<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/adobe%20max%20europe\" rel=\"tag\">adobe max europe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/after%20effects\" rel=\"tag\">after effects<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/astro\" rel=\"tag\">astro<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/adobe\" rel=\"tag\">adobe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the keynote here at Adobe MAX Europe we were shown some of the upcoming features in Flash 10, codenamed Astro. First up is a new text engine which supports bidirectional script. This is great if you want to, errrm, embed some right-to-left text within some left-to-right text; it will all word-wrap correctly. The next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/364-whats-in-flash-10.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s in Flash 10?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,58,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-multimedia","category-web-authoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}