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!

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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.

A colleague of mine just pointed me to an example on the FlashProjector web site. The example is on their front page, labelled “Web browser inside Flash” in the Showcase section. Immediately I gasped. Not at the functionality because SWF Studio has had that since version 2. I gasped at the sight of my own Flash component being used without my permission. I recognized it immediately because he didn’t even bother to change the look of the resize and drag handles.
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This may get classified as a security “enhancement” but it’s a bug as far as I can see. Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to how this is a good thing …
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