When publishing for Flash player 8 the html property of a TextField placed on the stage at authortime is true regardless of what you set the property in the Properties inspector.
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When writing functions in Flash MX04/8 the codehint dropdown will not appear when using a name that starts with an “n”.

Here is an example of what I mean:

function n()

Typing the “:” afterwords should bring up the codehint dropdown for the method return type, but it doesn’t.

Also, none of the parameters you specify will get the codehint dropdown either.

The same is also the case for getters and setters:

function get whatever()

Anyone else see this and/or other similar issues?

There are some undocumented actionscript goodies that come with the SWF Studio 3 ActionScript API that I thought I’d share. There are only a few, but they are ones that Flash should have built-in.

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I just wanted to blog this for reference.

Tim Scollick posted an entry about ActionScript 2 Coding Standards and raises some good questions.

One of the commentors (Derrick - nice name, bad spelling ) provided a couple of links.
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I realize a few people have already written their own JSFL wrapper classes and even distributed them to the Flash community. However, after getting back into building SWF panels for the IDE I thought of a better way to create new panels and test them.

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