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LoremIpsumGenerator for AS3 updated

Josh M — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:16:00 +0000

For anyone using the Lorem Ipsum classes in my open source Almirun Common Libraries, update svn. Some changes and bug fixes are in there. All thanks to Quentin at Toki-Woki.

as3 lorem ipsum generator

Josh M — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:51:49 +0000

I have updated the Almirun Common Libraries with some new classes. Most useful is likely to be the LoremIpsumGenerator class, an AS3 version of the Java class LoremIpsum4J. “Lorem ipsum” is the standard pseudo-Latin text used as filler when doing page layouts, and this is an easy way to grab as little or as much as you want of it, programmatically, via AS3.

The API has had to change a bit because AS3′s HTTP loading mechanism is asynchronous … API documentation here.

It’s only lightly tested so if you use it, and find any problems, please let me know.

For a future version I think I might use SharedObject to provide a semi-permanent cache and avoid hitting the Lipsum server (who provide the REST-based interface) too much.

[ Edit : 26.03.08 ] Fixed a bug as noted by the Lipsum folks – thanks.

[ Edit : 21.11.08 ] Accepted amendments, more bug fixes – thanks Quentin. Use the latest version in RIAForge’s Subversion repository to get the fix.

as3 project on riaforge

Josh M — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:19:51 +0000

I’ve just put up some AS3 utility classes on RIAForge (project: Almirun Common Libraries).

I intend to grow the list as and when I build new classes. They’re all licensed under LGPL so commercial projects can be compiled against the library without “infecting” the projects with open source-ness.

So far we have a StringManipulator class, with some handy functions ported from PHP / Perl; a TimeFormatter class, which provides an AS3 version of the C function strftime(); and the Inspector class, which allows you to deep-search for DisplayObjects of a certain type … similar to the DOM’s getElementsByTagName(), but for visual objects on the stage.

API documentation is online.

More will be forthcoming …