I’ve published a free article on Using the Macromedia Flash/JavaScript Integration Kit. It reviews the Integration Kit recently released by Macromedia. My compliments to Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers of Macromedia for creating this great method for simplifing Flash/JavaScript communication.
I recently published an article at Community MX that takes an interesting approach to working with data objects in ActionScript. It’s titled Using Collections and Iterators in ActionScript. By borrowing some ideas from Java we are able to use the concept of Collection and Iterators to make working with data objects a little better.
Today Macromedia announced that it is joining the Eclipse foundation and will be developing a Flash Application Development IDE based on the Eclipse IDE.
This is very exciting news for those of use that use third-party editors. Having an IDE focused on ActionScript development should prove to be a great step forward for making flash a “true” application development platform.
I published a new article at Community MX that covers the Object.Watch and object.Unwatch features in Flash.
“My last article covered a lesser-known feature of the native Object class in Flash for resolving undefined properties and methods: Resolving Undefined Methods and Properties Within a Flash Object. This article is also going to explore a lesser-known feature of the Object class called watch/unwatch. The feature allows you to monitor an object’s properties for changes. In this article we examine the feature and show how to use it. We will also cover a real-world example of how this feature could be used to make your development efforts easier.”
Paul Newman wrote an interesting article titled >Talking to Flash with JavaScript. It is published over at Community MX.