I’ve been doing some research on MicrosoftÂ’s .NET compact framework for a project I might be working on soon and found an interesting article that details how to embed a Flash object onto a form. If you will be working on such applications, this may prove to be a good article to check out.

If you are looking for some details on ActionScript 2.0, Joey Lott has written two articles that cover the subject well.

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Yesterday on Flashcoders there was some discussion about the increased file-size of the new Screens feature found in Flash 2004. I believe this will be something that some people will initially be worried about. People will wonder if Screens and Components are worth it when they bloat our precious file-size.
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Some of the little things that will make life easier for component developers in Flash 2004

• Auto Live-Preview: As long as your component knows how to redraw itself, converting a component to an swc will give it a live preview automatically.
• Meta tags: Using special Meta-tags in your class file of your component, Flash can automatically pick up the parameters rather than you needing to specify it in the component inspector (example: [Inspectable(name="Title Position",enumeration="top,bottom",defaultValue="top")])
• Easy event dispatching: The component framework has built-in support for broadcasting events. All that you would have to do to is “dispatchEvent({type:”click”});” and the rest is taken care of for you. No more AsBroadcaster.initialize(this)

I’ll try to post some more when i get the chance.

Macromedia announced Flash MX 2004, its latest upgrade to their Flash development environment. With this release Macromedia has also announced Flash MX Professional 2004, a version of Flash specifically targeted towards professional.

Rather than re-hash everything you are going to see out today about the new product, I will highlight a few of the new additions…
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