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We shall Flash them on the beaches

Even though we are sweltering under unseasonably hot weather I can but dream about Winter. The reason for this forward thinking is the fact that I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at Flash on the Beach in Brighton in December.
My session will be on component development, (like anyone would expect me [...]

Setting AS 2.0 component styles the lazy way…

While producing component based applications it became very tiring to have to repeat the same process to apply styles to individual or groups of components while not resorting to using _global.styles.componentClassName and ‘tarring with the same brush’ so to speak. If you do this it can be a real pain to apply a clean variant [...]

FGButton component ‘finally’ available

I realised last night (by ‘realised’ I mean someone pointed out - Stefan :P). That I hadn’t posted up an actual component based on my earlier post about adding rollOver and rollOut events to the Button component.
So to rectify this I have uploaded the MXP to the downloads section so those of you who would [...]

Fun with MXPs

( Components and Development and Flash and Flex )

For those interested in how to package up your Flash files for distribution via MXPs. I’ve just finished a general article on how a .MXI (mixy) is structured, including an example file to play with. If writing .MXI files for use in .MXP’s isn’t your bag there are a few links on .MXI makers at [...]

AS2 Component sizing via the parameters panel

Well I thought my articles covering off sizing a component in the IDE were at an end. That was until I got a comment from Justin Levi regarding resizing a component via the component inspector panel, he posed the following:
Great examples. Have you ever found a way to size the component container based on component [...]