Looks like the flash 9 editor does not allow for the trick of using a bitmap pattern fill for scale9 slicing. Still seems strange to me that they would not encourage working with bitmaps for scale9. I’m happy I did a search, because I was about to write my own class before I came across this post. It does exactly what I wanted it to do: apply scale9 properties to a bitmap. This is something that is really nice about as3, lots more people are building compartmentalized little tools that can just be grabbed and plugged into your project.

We got the Twisted Metal mini game up and running. Hopefully some folks get a kick out of it. The main url for it is: http://pwnedbysweettooth.com

If you want to show it in your blog you can by using a simple embed tag:

<embed src="http://pwnedbysweettooth.com/Twisted_Metal_Crash_Game.swf" width="600" height="500"></embed>

Set up a google code page. They have a pretty nice setup for keeping random actionscript files. I like the fact that I do not have to set up and maintain my own subversion server. Should be easier to keep my stuff centralized and public now.