Refurbishing antiques with LocalConnection

There’s a room in my house that has a pair of old-fashioned wingback chairs set in front of a large Scandinavian bookshelf unit. I like the way this arrangement looks; the graceful curves of the Queen Anne style chairs contrast nicely with the hard, sleek lines of the bookcase. And it would seem that I’m [...]

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 [...]