Common Pixel Bender shader tasks

The following tasks are things you’ll likely want to accomplish using filters in ActionScript:

• Loading a shader into a running SWF application, or embedding the shader at compile time and accessing it at run time

• Accessing shader metadata

• Identifying and specifying values for shader inputs (usually images)

• Identifying and specifying values for shader parameters

• Using a shader in the following ways:

  • As a drawing fill

  • As a blend mode

  • As a filter

  • In stand-alone mode