Working with ActionScript projects can offer some rather interesting challenges with some of the most basic parts of Flash development. Things like preloading your application and using linked MovieClips from a library, not to mention using embedded fonts in your TextFields. This really becomes interesting when you want to use more than one font in a single TextField. And sure you can embed font files right into the AS class, but that doesn’t always work. I’ve had numerous issues with OTF fonts.

The method that I have had the best success with is using the same technique as embedding symbols from Flash AS2 swfs. Here’s a step-by-step on how to do this.
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For some reason all of the code examples for using FMS are in AS2. Converting the examples to AS3 can be a bit challenging, especially since there is one really key piece of information that is left out that is new to AS3 and specific to the use of FMS2. The problem is the that FMS2 only supports AMF0, but in AS3 the default setting for the NetConnection class’ defaultObjectEncoding property is AMF3. Without changing this setting to AMF0, your code will seem to be correct, but will fail to connect without really telling you why. Check out the class that I created from the Adobe example and the MXML to use it.
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If you’re a Flash developer making the switch to start using Flex, then this class from Grant Skinner is for you. DisplayObjectWrapper makes life much easier by enabling developers to easily get anything that inherits from DisplayObject (Sprite, Loader and Bitmap to name a few) to become a display child of a Flex container (Canvas, ViewStack, Accordion, etc). Awesome, now here are some code examples of how to work with SWFs in Flex.

This mxml code example shows how to:
- load a Flash 9/10 SWF
- call a method within the document class of the SWF
- receive an event from the loaded SWF
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