Easier to import Illustrator symbols than Flash symbols into Flex.

Geek Glue claims that this should be easier. I gotta look into that soon.

Using Flash Symbols with ActionScript in Flex

Grant Skinner has a nice post about this subject on his blog

Making Flash Movies obey browser text size changes

Aral balkan has written about how to make text in your flash movie follow the text size changes in your browser.

Runtime font embedding in AS3

Scott Morgan has a nice post about font embedding at his blog.

Stage in flash

The stage property in Flash is versatile!

Size of content on the stage:

stage.width + stage.height.

The dimensions of the monitor that the flash player currently is consuming:

stage.stageWidth + stage.stageHeight.

Dimensions of the swf in the Fla’s publish settings:

loaderInfo.width + loaderInfo.height.

Access to main stage ( formerly know as _root in as2 ):

var swfStage:Stage = anyDisplayObject.stage.

Namespaces in actionscript 3

private, protected, internal and public

If a property is declared with the public keyword, the property is visible to code anywhere. This means that the public keyword, unlike the private, protected, and internal keywords, places no restrictions on property inheritance.

If a property is declared with private keyword, it is visible only in the class that defines it, which means that it is not inherited by any subclasses. This behavior is different from previous versions of ActionScript, where the private keyword behaved more like the ActionScript 3.0 protected keyword.

The protected keyword indicates that a property is visible not only within the class that defines it, but also to all subclasses. Unlike the protected keyword in the Java programming language, the protected keyword in ActionScript 3.0 does not make a property visible to all other classes in the same package. In ActionScript 3.0, only subclasses can access a property declared with the protected keyword. Moreover, a protected property is visible to a subclass whether the subclass is in the same package as the base class or in a different package.

To limit the visibility of a property to the package in which it is defined, use the internal keyword or do not use any access control specifier. The internal access control specifier is the default access control specifier that applies when one is not specified. A property marked as internal will be inherited only by a subclass that resides in the same package.