Only really skimmed this thread, as I'm not overly fussed about 8 atm, but the get/setPixel commands ( And all the other bitmap related ones ) look sex!

ImagingLingo without the nasty syntax, wow!

Also some links, sorry if I'm a repeat poster:

http://osflash.org/doku.php?id=flash...umented:flash8

http://oddhammer.com/actionscriptper...et3/index.html

Squize.