I do have to add to my original message, however, that I have nothing but the utmost respect for Senocular and his genius coding skills. He has helped me a bunch of times before on forums and by offering his code to the public and is one of the key reasons why I started to blog the way I do today. Plus, when he was living in Maryland back in the day, I gave him shit for being so good and not working at a larger company that would give him more exposure. I’m, like, a prophet… or something.

His AS3 TransformTool differs from my AS3 TransformManager in several ways. His offers skewing and the ability to interactively move the registration point around. Pretty cool. However, my AS3 TransformManager offers a few unique things:

1) Multiple selections (this was the biggest challenge for me)
2) Easily control transformations via code, like scaleSelection(0.5, 0.8) or rotateSelection(2.8) or moveSelection(30, 490). You could even use TweenLite to change values over time, like TweenLite.to(manager, 2, {selectionScaleX:1.5, selectionScaleY:2});
3) Resize textfields without distorting the text inside of them
4) DELETE/BACKSPACE key functionality
5) Arrow key functionality (for movement)
6) Constrained horizontal/vertical movement with the SHIFT key
7) Documentation

There are probably more differences, but those are a few that came to mind. I’m no expert on his TransformTool either, so some of my assertions above may not be entirely accurate.

Senocular’s tool is very well-built, so if you don’t need the extra features that my AS3 TransformManager offers, heck, why pay for it? But one of my goals is to build stuff that’s very easy to use, and I’d like to think that TransformManager’s price is well worth it when you consider all the time and effort it’ll save you, plus I’m pretty sure it’s the only tool around that offers multiple selections.

http://www.senocular.com/demo/TransformToolAS3/TransformTool.html
and an example for Flex: http://joelhooks.com/examples/transformTool/

ps: Thank you Matt for all your classes! It saved me some hours of work a few times