As more Flash developers migrate towards using tools like Flex Builder and FDT for code editing, some of us have found that switching between the Flash IDE and Flex Builder doesn’t necessarily present the most seamless workflow. Compiling with the Flash IDE is slow and cumbersome; building an entire Flash project with code in Flex [...]

A while ago, I came across a situation where my Flash application would launch but the stage.stageWidth and stage.stageHeight properties would always return 0 within my document class’s constructor. As I needed to access those properties at runtime and I did not want to hardcode those values to a pair of variables, it drove me [...]

If you’re thinking of hosting your SWFs on a content delivery network to improve the performance of your Flash application, or attempting to load a third-party SWF hosted on another domain into your application, be aware that loading and scripting SWFs from another domain posts a whole set of security issues, namely that of [...]

At a recent FlashCodersNY meeting where the discussion centered around the subject of the MVC (Model-View-Controller) design pattern, it struck me that a lot of Flash developers, especially those coming from design backgrounds, did not see the value in using the MVC design pattern.
Well, I’m not here to make the case for using MVC but [...]

Over the past couple of years, I’ve come to rely heavily on FDT for my Actionscript development work. An excellent plugin for the Eclipse IDE, FDT provides developers with a rich set of editing and refactoring tools unavailable in the Flash IDE. Back in the AS2 days, one can bypass the Flash IDE altogether and [...]