Flash | Retrospective

Flash tidbits, struggles, revelations, and teaching

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 [...]


FXG Complex Rectangle Experiment

I’m a bit late to the party, but started really looking at Flex4 this week … FXG in particular.  I looked over the few basic FXG Shapes (Rect, Ellipsis, and Line) and thought it looked pretty limited.  I had used Degrafa on a few projects and really got used to the Round Rectangle Complex and [...]


AMFEXT on OSX? Anyone?

Has anyone been able to get AMFEXT for OSX?    I read a few posts regarding AMFEXT on OSX, but it didnt help out too much.
AMFEXT is a PHP extension written in C that implements encoding and decoding of AMF and AMF3 messages for the PHP language. It has been based on some of the experience [...]