problem using the - character with flash external interface and microsoft internet explorer

Here’s an odd bug that I ran into, hopefully this post will save somebody somewhere a little bit of headscratching.
In my current project I’m using swfobject 2.0 to embed our Flash content. I like the syntax and the open source development of the project, and I don’t mind being patient waiting for the fix dealing [...]

my new favorite flash event handles the mouse out of stage problem

I don’t want to breed ill will by playing Actionscript favorites, but at the moment I definitely like Event.MOUSE_LEAVE a little more than the rest of the flash.events.Event types.
I’m working on a piece of functionality in my Flash as3 application that involves replacing the mouse cursor with a custom clip and making another clip change [...]

how to impress your friends by taking an image snapshot of a flash movie and automatically uploading the jpg to a server in three easy steps

The title for this recipe is a little long, but the use case is straightforward: I want to capture the visual appearance of a movieclip, encode it as a jpg, and then upload it to my server without any user interaction
I came to this problem while writing AsUnit tests for my Flash Actionscript 3 application. [...]