Third Thursday of the month at 6:30pm
Thanks to everyone who came out tonight!
Josh’s Unit Testing presentation:
source files (zip)
Val’s Better Typography presentation:
slides
links:
Text Layout Framework demo page
Text Layout Framework download
NYT Reader 2.0 download
Other links discussed:
Color Scheme Designer
We Choose the Moon
INSPIRE
The July PittMFUG meeting is this Thursday July 16th and we have two presentations planned for this month’s meeting. We’ll also have free food!
UnitTesting Your Applications, Josh Sager
Working on larger projects seems to be the norm these days. It’s becoming harder and harder to manage all of the features within your application or interactive project. If only there was a better way to manage this and avoid the following scenario.
Have you ever “fixed” one thing that broke two or three other things? Have you ever wished there was a way for you to know if things were broken without manually clicking every button and checking every feature? The solution is Unit Testing. Unit Testing is an approach to development that uses test cases to validate the expected results of your functionality. Each build a diagnostic is run and will display a dashboard of results notifying the developer of anything failing or passing the tests. As the project grows in scale it’s an extremely valuable tool that saves time and allows abstract management instead of feeling lost in the trenches when something goes wrong.This is an intermediate to advanced developer topic.
Better Flash Typography: The Text Layout Component, Val Head
To date, typography in Flash has always been a little hit or miss.The new text engine in Flash Player 10 aims to fix a lot of those issues. The Text Layout Framework is a library built to help you take advantage of these new Flash Player features. To quote Adobe Labs: “Text Layout Framework delivers multi-lingual, print-quality typography for the web…”
Val will show you how to use the Text Layout Component currently available on the Adobe Labs site in Flash. While the TLF can most certainly be done with ActionScript, there’s no coding involved in this demo.
This is a beginner to intermediate topic for both designers and developers.
Please RSVP to pittmfug@gmail.com or @pittmfug to let us know you’re coming so we can order enough food.
PittMFUG July Meeting
Thursday July 16th
6:30pm
New Perspective2949 Smallman St
Pittsburgh PA 15201
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We’re planning a little fun for our August meeting and will be holding it at Games N’ At on the south side. All the details will be going out in next month’s email, so be prepared to get your game on!
We’re always trying to come up with new ways to support the Flash community in and around Pittsburgh. We’d like to know what you think about the idea of holding Flash training workshops through the PittMFUG. These would be open to anyone, of course, not just PittMFUG members.
Interested? Have some topic ideas? Think we’re crazy? Take a minute to complete our Pittsburgh Flash Training Survey to let us know.