Articles

This is a feature in AS3 that I hadn’t come accross before. If you ever load swf files into one another you might not know it, but you’ll be dealing with application domains. I’ve loaded in SWF’s before, but never had to pay any specific attention to the applicationDomain. Basically they allow you to specify […]

With the release of the new Flash Builder Beta from Adobe labs, more Actionscript developers will be tempted to leave the Flash IDE and head to what is now the rebranded Flex Builder. Previously there has been a bit of confusion over what Flex and Flex Builder were for, not everybody realised that you could […]

I’ve been meaning to get stuck in to MVC patterns with AS3 for a while now and had been hearing lots of good things about PureMVC. Got a little project the other day that I think is perfect to use as an introduction. I’ll be writing about the process as I go, which will definately […]

I’ll be trying to release some useful classes over the next couple of months, many of which I used to build Rainbow. So starting off here’s a class that became pretty handy when running a function that chewed up lots of CPU time. Background.as This is a simple background process manager class that uses up […]

Code and Visual is happy to announce the launch of Rainbow Live XML Editor. Rainbow has been developed to answer the needs of Flash developers who use XML as a data source. With Rainbow Live you can combine the ease of Visual XML editing with the power of a Live Content Management System (CMS). If […]