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  • Which headers are allowed?

    OK, so since the shake-up with the Flash Player security vulnerabilities that began with player 9.0.115.0 and became strictly enforced with 9.0.124.0, there seems to...

  • Policy file logging

    A very handy debug feature that was added with player 9.0.115.0 was the ability to write the policy requests the player makes, and the responses...

  • Vote for templates and snippets in Flex Builder 4

    I've added my support to the inclusion of templates and snippets in Flex Builder 4 to improve the workflow of the IDE in team of...

  • For those considering FDT

    As an AS3.0 developer there are two clear enterprise-level IDEs you could invest in: Flex Builder 2/3 and FDT. Over the past 12 months I...

  • Flex addChild() LiveDocs issue

    I've noticed that the LiveDocs incorrectly state the type acceptable to a container's addChild() method, leading to confusion in the novice Flex development community. In the...

  • Video.clear() is broken in AS3.0

    After a few hours trying to get it to work, I've thrown my vote behind bug ASC-3115 on the ActionScript compiler bug system. Each time...

  • stageWidth is zero in IE

    There's a strange bug in SWFs embedded in IE using SWFObject where even after your ADDED_TO_STAGE events have fired, on initialisation both stage.stageWidth and stage.stageHeight...

  • mouseChildren?

    Yet another quirk of buttonMode in AS3.0 is the art of getting your MovieClips to behave like buttons to useHandCursor. Simply setting buttonMode=true will only...

  • What's happened to stage? Unravelling the display list

    You're trying to do something like: public class MyClass extends Sprite { public function MyClass() { ...

  • Descendant accessors and namespaces in AS3.0

    I recently encountered a problem, and with it, the lack of documentation around the use of the descendant accessor (double dot ..) in ActionScript 3.0....

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