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mProjector v2 is a 3rd party Flash extension application. It takes your SWF(s), and allows them to do things that the Flash Player itself cannot do. It’s main selling points are:

– syncronous commands not using fscommand or callbacks. So, for reading files from the user’s hard drive, reading the registry, etc., it’s all immediate. FlashStudioPro I believe requires fscommands, and Screenweaver requires you to setup callbacks.
– when opening new windows, you have the same syncronous ActionScript like the above with return values, just like normal ActionScript.
– direct access to COM objects, and you can use their methods in ActionScript like you’d use a component.

There are some other neat features, but to me the above is what sets it apart from it’s competitors. I had the ability to see in it in action, and it’s pretty slick. Quick to jump into, as well if your thinking of giving it a spin.

mProjector v2

Son of a… I hear the classic creaky door opening sound. I toggle to AIM to see who logged in, and suddenly, the window refreshes probably because it was inactive for a few hours, and then a red square appears over top of it. The window was about 120 x 480 in size, and the red square managed to be about 400×300, just big enough to cover all my buddy’s, plus some of the buttons below it. A rocket then flies over top the whole thing… I panic, and start clicking madly mouthing “wtf…”. Then, the rocket and square disappear as I toggle away and then back again, and it turns it out was the Thunderbirds movie ad in the ad square at the top of AIM.

Son of a b(*&$#! Suddenly I actually give a hoot about Trillian… another AIM client in Central sounds neat as well.

Just doing my part. Things I have to add:
– the components in the Component Panel remember what you had clicked open, and what you didn’t. Bad ass!
– Compile times are sooo much frikin’ better.
– Overall performance of the IDE, including being open over time, is much improved.

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Scott Fegette – Community Manager