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You make my half pixel a whole one.

Flash loves whole pixels like street punks loved hippies - not a lot.

So what can we do when Flash insists it puts all our pixel-perfect image assets on half pixels, rendering their movements wonkier then a drunken unicyclist? 
We could go through every keyframe and round their x and y positions to the nearest whole number in the properties panel, or (as I discovered today) we could just click a single button. This glorious flash extension works on multiple movieclips at once, can round width & height, x & y, or both!

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Gettin' Queasy

Every so often when I'm working amongst my fellow flash developers, I'll notice something strangely... inefficient.

A poor sod manually aligning a movieclip to 0, 0, or turning on bitmap smoothing via a series of unnecessary menus, or even setting a movieclips' alpha to 0 with a (gasp) slider.

It's at this point I tap them on the shoulder and mention a plugin which has changed the way I work every day; Queasy Tools. 

This baby does a lot more then mentioned above, it's great for setting custom easing in one click, copy and pasting positions of movieclips, converting text to all caps or all lower case - the list goes on. So if you don't use it already, do yourself a favour and grab it here: 

http://ajarproductions.com/blog/2008/07/15/queasy-tools-panel-v150/

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