MAX 2007, Day 1

As expected, the first day of MAX was full of useful, interesting, and exciting information. Here are some of the highlights from various sessions:
General Session / Keynote
Kevin Lynch announced that an upcoming release of the Flash Player will include support for the H.264 video codec. This was particularly timely for me, because just a couple [...]

Flash CS3 / Flex 2 butterflies (part two)

As you’ll see in this new sample app, I’ve been having fun playing with Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3. The new app has some important features that my sample app for part one did not have:

The movie clip in the FLA extends a custom class (defined, of course, in a separate AS file).

The SWC [...]

Flash CS3 / Flex 2 butterflies (part one)

I’ve been playing with the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3, and it looks pretty cool. I have run into a couple of issues, however.
One issue has to do with the bounding box feature which - in theory - works as follows: When you create a new Flash CS3 file that is to be [...]