Northcode’s SWF Studio 3.1 has been released. This release comes out not too long after the 3.0 release in July. Why so soon? We wanted to release around the time Macromedia was releasing Flash 8, the new features kick ass, and all the hard work that went into 3.0 is still paying off by speeding up the time it takes for us to add new features and make bug fixes, so we were able to get the new stuff in pretty fast.

So what’s new? (more…)

When a Macromedia product announcement (or almost any announcement for that matter) comes out you know just about everyone blogs it. Well, to the cliff we go my fellow lemmings … (more…)

All I have to say is … enh.

There was a lot of hype when gLIC was announced. It took a LONG time for it to get released, however it was explained as business matters rather than any issues with the components. This was confirmed by the announcement that gLIC was to be distributed by Metalliq and branded as mCOM.

Well, it’s finally been released. Here is the demo page:
http://www.metaliq.com/mcom/

Perhaps it’s just the online demo that has issues, but my first impressions are:
- looks good
- seems quick
- has inconsistent event behaviours
- some items do not work as one would expect a UI element to work
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