Accessing Local Files when Launched Locally

Flash security is, in a word, whack. I won’t even attempt to summarize the full schebang right now, but one trick I just learned: compile with the “-use-network=false” flag if you want to load a local resource from disk, such as when testing with SAFlashPlayer.exe. (So far as I can tell, “-use-network=true” does [...]

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MXML for Fun and Profit

So Flash is pretty sweet for low-level graphics coding. But it’s a bit, er, low-level for full UI development. Enter MXML, what HTML would look like if Adobe designed it. Luckily, compiling it doesn’t appear to be any more difficult than with ActionScript. Simply dump this into a HelloWorld.mxml file:
<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<mx:Application [...]

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