Update: Keith himself has been working on a similar idea and has released MinimalConfigurator.

Keith Peter’s Minimal Components are an excellent tool for any Flash developer when it comes to adding realtime configuration to a SWF. I find myself using them a lot in my demos and prototypes but for sketches with many editable parameters it’s still a hassle writing boilerplate code to set up and arrange the components, as well as adding the appropriate event handlers.

Inspired by GUI tools for OpenFrameworks such as ofxSimpleGuiToo and ofxTweakbar, and ControlP5 for Processing; I thought it was time to have an equally fast and easy to use GUI tool for Flash AS3 projects. Read : Simple Flash GUI Tool »

If you are building a multilingual application (or any application that requires dynamic, runtime loaded assets), swapping and managing assets can easily become tedious and messy.

Recently, for projects requiring special characters (such as Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and Hindi) and where dynamic or input text is not required, we have been creating library SWFs for each language and using static textfields to populate content. This saves file size, as unnecessary characters are not embedded, and it eases the process of including different character sets (and even fonts) for each language. It also means that we can include text in the same runtime loaded library as general display assets. Read : Hello Dynamic Sprite »

The Adobe Swatch Exchange (ASE) is a useful file format for importing colour schemes into applications in the Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator etc). Read : ASE (Adobe Swatch Exchange) Encoder »