SomaTween is a optional tool in the Soma framework to centralize transitions. Soma Tween is not a tween library.

It is working with proxy for a real tween library and it makes you able to debug all the transitions of your site in one place. For example you can set to 0 all the times and delays of your site and be able to see it without transitions or animations.

You can find in the Soma source a transitions proxies folder, with 3 transition proxy classes for Tweener, TweenMax and GTween.

More information in the Transitions proxy page and the SomaTween page.

A StyleManager and SomaText classes have been added to the Soma Framework.

You can handle your text fields with external extended stylesheets for a better style management without the need to recompile.

SomaText is a class that is extending the Flash built-in class TextField with many features to make you life easier with texts and styles.

A global default stylesheet can easily be loaded in Soma with a single line.

SomaProtest has been updated, all the texts and styles are managed with a CSS stylesheet. A page explaining how to use the new style and text features is available here.

SomaText makes you able to use TextField and TextFormat properties straight from the CSS file, properties such as: embed-fonts, anti-alias-type, auto-size, multiline, font-family, text-decoration, grid-fit-type, and many others.

A full list of properties you can use is available on the CSS properties page.

Soma, SomaUI, sources and the SVN have been updated on the SomaUI page.

Soma protest is a site-demo that has 2 purposes.

The first is helping you understand how Soma works. Soma is a AS3 MVC Framework and Soma Protest is showing you examples, sources, demo, and explains each part and process of the framework.

The second is providing sources and examples as Soma Protest has been built With Soma and the sources are available to download. You can see the code and understand how I use Soma.

Click here to see Soma Protest.

I’ve made quite a few updates in Soma and I’ve updated the software SomaUI accordingly. I’ll use SomaProtest to add and demonstrate new features in the future. I plan to build a full and easy language support, a services part (Flash Remoting), and at some point, a Soma asdoc.

The sources of Soma, SomaUI and Soma Protest are availabe on the SomaUI page (zip and SVN).

The Forums are available is you are missing something in Soma Protest and need more explanation, I’ll try to help.