Francis Cheng

Yesterday I heard about the new Blueprint Eclipse plug-in from the announcement on the Flex Doc Team's blog. I was intrigued by the convenience it promises, so I installed it and gave it a spin. The idea of having code samples just a click or key-press away got me pretty excited, because for me at least, seeing actual code is a critical step for me in learning how to use a particular class or interface.

Installation was pretty straightforward. It's been a while since I've installed an Eclipse plug-in, so I followed the Blueprint installation instructions pretty carefully.

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I'm back. I won't bore you with my personal travails, but will instead skip right to what I've been working on lately. Most recently, I've been documenting the new Text Layout Framework, which provides an easy way to take advantage of the immense power of the flash.text.engine package available in Flash Player 10.

Going forward, I'll be splitting my time between the Text Layout Framework and the creation of an updated version of the ActionScript 3.0 Language Specification.

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