GTween V2.01 is a minor update that adds support for AS3 events, allows multiple callbacks at the same position on a timeline, introduces a version property, and fixes a number of bugs reported by users. It also includes a SWC file with the distribution.

Here’s the full list of changes:

• added GTween.version property. (thanks to Colin Moock for the request)

• added .dispatchEvents and GTween.defaultDispatchEvents properties, so you can enable AS3 events. (thanks to Colin Moock for the request)

• fixed a problem with tweens in a timeline initing at the wrong time, and added support for position values less than -delay. (thanks to Erik Blankinship for the bug report)

• fixed a problem with tween values being set to NaN before the controlling timeline started playing. (thanks to Erik for the bug report)

• added support for multiple callbacks at a single position to GTweenTimeline. (thanks to sharvey, edzis for the feature request)

• fixed issue with callbacks being called again when a timeline completes. (thanks to edzis for the bug report)

Go to gskinner.com/libraries/gtween to get all the information and download the new release.

I’m planning to migrate the source code to a public repository early in the new year.

Flex Formatter is an extremely useful plugin for FlexBuilder / FlashBuilder that formats your ActionScript code (AS3) and MXML according to a broad range of settings, and helps you to generate ASDoc comments automatically. It is free, and open source.

It’s code formatting is quite robust and configurable, handling things like brace settings (cuddling versus next line), white space around parameters and operators, sorting imports, and a ton more. Thankfully, you can export your settings to a file and share it with your whole team. You can also have it automatically update settings from a file that you can share over the network or via SVN / GIT.

Unfortunately, it’s ASDoc features are much more rudimentary, and do not have any configuration options. They serve as an acceptable starting point, and save some time, but I would love to see some additional support here (for example, an option to mark private and or protected members as @private, which is a very common requirement).

Regrettably, Flex Formatter does not seem to come with installation instructions. If you are not familiar with installing Eclipse plugins, it can take a lot of work to figure it out, but it’s very simple if you know how to do it:

1. Start up FlexBuilder / FlashBuilder.

2. From the Help menu, select ‘Software Updates > Find and Install…’

3. Select ‘Search for new features to install’ and click ‘Next >’

4. Click ‘New Remote Site…’

5. Use name: ‘Flex Formatter’ and url: ‘http://flexformatter.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/FlexFormatter/FlexPrettyPrintCommandUpdateSite/’

6. Click OK

7. Make sure only ‘Flex Formatter’ is selected in the ‘Sites to search’ list, and click ‘Finish’

8. Follow the prompts to install Flex Formatter, and restart the IDE

Once you’ve restarted, you should see the Flex Formatter bar with buttons to ASDoc, format, and rearrange your code. You should also have a ‘Flex Formatting’ entry in preferences.

If you’d like, you can import my settings for Flex Formatter. You can download them by clicking here, unzip them, and import them using the ‘import…’ button at the bottom of Flex Formatter’s preferences.

Flex Formatter’s project home is here and you can find documentation on it’s settings here.