The world of open sources around the flash platform has been growing rapidely in the past few months. Some awesome project have seen the light like for instance FLASC and ALF.
FLASC is a flash extension that allows you to use MTASC to compile your swf through the flash IDE. It takes no time to actually compiles new swfs as it doesn’t recompile the graphics but it just injests the new compiled classes in the existing swf.
ALF is something which I have been wating for so long in flash. What it does is that it allows you search through your flash library. You can search by linkage names, normal names, classes, You can rename several classes for different clip at the same time and many more option… It’s the best tool ever when your library starts to get over 500 objects.
Check out the www.osflash.org site for even more open source projects
March 17th, 2006
Afer posting the “MAC wierdness (part1)” on flashcoders I got a reply saying that it’s a flash player bug on the mac and it also only happens localy. I will ned to test this when the movie is live (online)
March 5th, 2006
The problem that we experienced is really weird… We basically had a swf loading a video in itself, the file name was pulled off a xml file which was loaded in. That swf worked fine on pc but as soon as we tried to run it on a mac it stoped working. We first thought that we were using the wrong flash player (8 -> 7) but no it was that all…
One of collegues who works on mac told us the mac has issues now and then with long filenames. At first i was really septical so we run some tests with long and short filenames. It turned out that he was right. The maximum characters for a file name on a mac is 23 characters. If it’s any longuer things start breaking… very strange…
March 3rd, 2006
This below link gives you access to a as3 library which allows to connect to several web services like flikr or YouTube… life just got easier… 
http://labs.macromedia.com/wiki/index.php/ActionScript_3:resources:apis:libraries
March 2nd, 2006