I’ve read about several people having this problem in AS2.0. If a class is imported in Frame 1 of their movie, it’s not accessible in Frame 10. The structure of the movie looks like the following:
Frame 1:
import com.db75.utils.ImageLoader;
Frame 10:
var myImageLoader:ImageLoader = new ImageLoader();
trace(myImageLoader);
This will trace “undefined” because the class doesn’t exist. Therefore [...]

This is just something basic I learned today when typecasting variables as movieclip objects. Prior to AS2.0 I always made references to movieclip visiblity using the following statements:
my_mc._visible = 0;
my_mc._visible = 1;
If you typecast your variable like:
// Reference to a datagrid instance on the stage
var my_mc:MovieClip = my_dg;
and try to set the visibility of [...]

The long awaited Flash MX 2004 updater is finally here! It’s dubbed as Flash 7.2 and supposedly addresses over 100 bugs. I just finished installing it so I’ll post my results here. The main things that I’m looking forward to are:
- IDE launches faster, more stable
- Fla’s compile up to 50% faster
- [...]

If you’ve done any Web Service programming in Flash MX Pro then you’ve most likely run into situations where you’re accessing Web Services that don’t reside on the same domain as your .swf file. Assuming you have administrative access to the server that hosts the Web Services, you’ll need to deploy a crossdomain.xml file [...]

Welcome to my blog. I just got movabletype running and it’s a very robust content management system. I’m mainly going to ramble about different technologies such as M2M, Flash, Symbian OS, as well as other odds and ends. Oh yeah, if you’re not familiar with M2M it’s seriously a killer technology that [...]