There are some undocumented actionscript goodies that come with the SWF Studio 3 ActionScript API that I thought I’d share. There are only a few, but they are ones that Flash should have built-in.

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I just wanted to blog this for reference.

Tim Scollick posted an entry about ActionScript 2 Coding Standards and raises some good questions.

One of the commentors (Derrick – nice name, bad spelling ) provided a couple of links.
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I realize a few people have already written their own JSFL wrapper classes and even distributed them to the Flash community. However, after getting back into building SWF panels for the IDE I thought of a better way to create new panels and test them.

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I was adding my custom tab manager to a Flash project yesterday and found that my Tree component wasn’t being picked up in the tabbing order. After some debugging I found that the tabIndex for the List, DataGrid, and Tree components can no longer be set! This is new to Flash 8 and is horrible for accessibility.

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The launch of Macromedia Labs! Macromedia launches a new site for alpha projects and other projects that may or may not fit in the typical product run. Flash player 8.5 is there, a new wiki, and more.

Check out what it’s about, and then go download everything!

Subscribe to the RSS/Atom feed here.

Darron Schall has a nice overview of some of the new features of AS3.

I haven’t even played with any of this yet and I’m already frickin’ excited.