Gaia 3.1.0 adds some requested panel updates including relative class path injection, custom class path support in templates, spaces in folder paths, a new API method getSitePosition(), and some minor code edits in preparation for the upcoming HaXe version!

I'm extremely excited to attend FITC Toronto this month (April 26-28th). Not only is it my first time to Toronto, which I hear is an amazing city (I hear it's the best in all of Canada), not only am I speaking about my Gaia Framework, but the lineup this year is incredible. If you haven't bought your ticket yet or are still on the fence about going, you should definitely get on it before they're all gone. I love going to Flash events and here's a few reasons why this one is particularly awesome:

First up is Lee Brimelow. Lee is one of my favorite evangelists and is representing again, this time with an introduction to ByteArrays and a Flash CS4 Workshop. Plus, he'll be doing another of his famous Adobe Master Collection dead drops, which is guaranteed to have people running around Toronto at all hours hunting for it (myself included)!

R Blank always brings his trademarked energy and excitement and this year is no exception. He's giving a presentation called "Get off your ass and start using AS3 already!", and any presentation with expletives and exclamation points in its title must be good.

I'm definitely checking out the MTV Jackass on AIR presentation. I've about this AIR app and it sounded insanely bad ass. I'm looking forward to finding out more about how they built this.

It almost goes without saying that I'm looking forward to the legendary parties, getting to meet and hang out with the super stars in the industry, see old friends, and make new ones. It's a fantastic opportunity to network and have fun. I can't wait.

You can see all the presentations here: http://www.fitc.ca/event_detail.cfm?festival_id=79

And you can get tickets here: http://store2.fitc.ca/ticket_type.cfm?e=26

Looking forward to seeing you there! FYI, I'm giving my presentation on Gaia, Sunday April 26th from 1:40-2:40 (hint hint).

Cheers,
Steven Sacks

The Callaway Golf "Hit It Pure" game we built at Hello Design won an FWA on April 4th! Awesome!

Nemo Design is a design agency in Portland, Oregon and they used the Gaia Framework for their company website. It's well done and uses some of Gaia's cool features like overriding the preloader at runtime.

Keith Urban is a country music star and his new website was built using the Gaia Framework.

It's got some nice photography and interesting transition styles which look like they're triggered using Gaia's event hijacking. It also driven by a dynamically generated site.xml.

http://www.keithurban.net

It's my birthday, bitches!

Gaia 3.0.9 contains some requested feature updates, including an auto-generated static class for strictly-typed goto(), pre-site.xml-load initialization, a bug fix for the panel, and a fix for the scaffolding issue in Flash CS4 where the background would appear blank.

Another exciting announcement is that the Gaia Framework documentation is in the process of being translated into several languages, including (thus far) Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Japanese, with Italian, French, Turkish, and Polish starting soon. Special thanks to all the volunteers who are helping with this effort.

If you would like to help with any of the above languages or one that is not currently being translated, please reply to this post on the forum.

The Gaia Panel will be translated into these languages during this process, as well!

For some reason, I cannot assign anything to ALT+` on OSX. It works on Windows without issue, but on OSX, it won't take. Annoying that I can't use that key on OSX but it works on Windows, especially considering the lack of available shortcuts on that side of the keyboard.

That's all.

So here's another weird bug in Flash CS4. The first time it happened, I started to write a blog post about it, and then I made a new file and it didn't happen. I thought it was a fluke. But, it's happened a few more times since then in different files on different machines.

Bug Description
You have some items on the stage in a MovieClip all on the same layer, like Shapes and/or TextFields. You click on the layer, then right-click on an item and choose Distribute To Layers. Everything gets distributed correctly, but some items get shifted by 0.5 pixels in a random direction. If you undo and do Distribute To Layers again, they get shifted again but in a different direction.

This does not happen in brand new Flash files. It seems to only start happening once you have been working in a file for awhile. Once it starts happening, it's pretty much going to happen in that file from then on anytime you use Distribute To Layers.

How To Reproduce
Unfortunately, I don't have any specific steps to take to make it happen reliably. I can say that it happens on both OSX and on Windows XP, and it has happened on different machines with different files. It's only intermittent in that it doesn't always happen to a file, but once it happens once, it continues to happen in that file from then on. It also does not make a difference whether you're inside the MovieClip directly (double-clicking in the library) or if you dug down to it from the top level.

Workaround
You can copy and paste the MovieClip from your library into a new Flash file, go inside it and Distribute To Layers and it will not shift the items. You can then copy it back to the original Flash file.

I upgraded my Windows version of Flash CS4 yesterday to the minor release using the Adobe updater via Help > Updates… Now, there's a weird glow effect on the Output panel on Windows whenever I click in the Output panel. It fades up and down. Here's the best screenshot I could grab of it. It actually looks much worse than this but I couldn't get a screenshot fast enough when it was at its "peak".

It happens every single time. This does not happen on OSX, only Windows (I only have XP so I haven't tested on Vista).

It also happens anytime you use the jsfl command fl.outputPanel.trace().

Anyone else experiencing this?