Flash | Retrospective

Flash tidbits, struggles, revelations, and teaching

Could Flash Catalyst Replace the Flash IDE?

Flash Catalyst isn’t even in public beta yet, but based on the potential I see with the preview release handed out at Adobe MAX, I could see Flash Catalyst replace the Flash IDE eventually.
Now currently, FC is being billed as a tool for interation designers for creating UI mockups to use for wireframing, adding interactivity [...]


Flex Builder/Eclipse MXML/AS3 Source Formatter

Way back in April, I had been looking for an Eclipse plugin to format MXML and came up blank.   Today I found one (thanks to Digital Media Minute) and it works great.  I just used to clean up some old code of mine, plus reformat some code I inherited from another developer.
Flex Formatter:   http://flexformatter.sourceforge.net/ Download [...]