As soon as you start writing your first lines of code in ActionScript, it’s pretty likely that you’ll use _root.
_root is an identifier that references the main timeline of your movie.
When you use _root, you’re using absolute notation.
So you want to create a mail form in Flash…
You need:
Creating a Flash Mail Form should be easy and can be resumed in 4 simple steps:
The best email client has just been updated and is available for download.
Thunderbird 2 RC1 was released yesterday.
I’m not on my main computer, so I haven’t installed it yet. I’ll install it as soon as I get home.
I’ve been using a beta?/alpha? version for a long time without any problems. I can’t remember all the new features included in this release, but I remember the new look and a great feature I’ve always missed (which I don’t know it’s even available in any other email clients) – Session History Navigation. This feature allows you to navigate back and forward through the email messages you’ve already opened, just like the browser’s back and forward buttons allow you to navigate through visited web pages.
Read the release notes and find out what’s new.
You can download it here.
Mike Downey has posted a huge list of links, all Apollo-related.
In case you missed something from the last couple of days, here‘s a good chance to find it.
Essential ActionScript 3.0 by Colin Moock is is now available for pre-order.
If you want to help Moock with a small percentage when you buy his book, follow the links on his blog post.
If you want to get into ActionScript 3.0… Flash and Flex world… this should be The Book!
The much awaited release of the alpha version of Apollo is finally available on the Labs.
Go grab it and start playing with it.
You can also download the .pdf version of Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide by Mike Chambers for free. At home, I always got a 404 not found error, but was able to download it at my mother’s – strange…
The book has been available for two days, before Apollo itself has.
Read the press release for the first public release of Apollo.
