Josh was bitching on Twitter the other day about how if you select multiple objects in Flash and choose Convert to Symbol, it puts them all on the same layer, regardless of where they were before. Others agreed that it is frustrating. I know where he’s coming from doing production art, so I built this quick Command to do just that. If you save in your Commands folder, and re-boot Flash, you can re-map your F8 key to use this Command instead of the regular Convert to Symbol Command.
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Utilizing Namespaces to Indicate Framework Usage
When utilizing PureMVC Mediator’s, there are 2 ways I’ve seen people write them. The first way is to have the Mediator call methods on the View, passing data it retrieved from a Proxy. This can also be done from a Command as well. The second way is to actually give the Mediator/Command more responsibility of State management for a particular View, and call more than 1 method on it, doing a lot of code that’s often done in the View.
Both have the same problem: methods in the View that only PureMVC calls, yet exist for others to inadvertently use because they are public.
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Creating Modules in Flash CS4
You can now create modules in Flash CS4 using AS3. Â You couldn’t in CS3, but could in Flash 8 using AS2. Â Flash CS4 comes with a new feature in the Publish Settings called “External Library Path”. Â What this allows you to do is point to a set of code, and allow you to compile WITHOUT it. Â This is almost exactly the same as mxmlc’s (Flex compiler) -load-externs compiler parameter. Â We still don’t have -link-report, though, grr….
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How to Do a RIA Correctly
Forrester Research published a (free, usually $750) report on how to do a Rich Internet Applications correctly.  They point to Cynergy as a company that does it right.
I read it and agreed with everything. Â It’s short and to the point. Â For more context, read the 2 links below.