Flash developers have a lot more control in using and manipulating elements in Flash 8. Now you can directly manipulate bitmaps on the fly within Flash, and also control a movie clip’s transformations via its transform matrix. Here’s a long and lucid explanation of Flash 8′s transformation matrix, the Matrix class in Flash and the methods by which it manipulates matrices, and some of the math behind those operations if you’re interested. Apple can say whatever it wants about the future of Flash on devices but when you see these sort of enhancements being made to the new version of Flash it makes it clear that they aren’t even close to giving up on it and that it’s is going to be around for a long time to come.
The Flash 8 Transformation Matrix
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