Recently I was looking into Continuous Integration and as you do I started thinking of all the automation I'd like to integrate in an ideal world. One of them was running accessibility tests. As this is a bit of an unknown subject to me, I thought the ideal time arose to learn more on this topic and not to just accept the vanilla response that Flash is accessible.

Chances are you've heard of the term or read some tutorials on how to use these diagrams to help with documenting your thought process when building a slick Flash project. I basically only wanted to share a little gem I've recently discovered but ended up writing propaganda. I digress.

Maybe you've guessed it but keeping with my black theme I've utilised my spare time to design a new set of Eclipse icons and splash screen. What I haven't had time for was writing some script to install these on different OS' but my guess is you will figure it out.

For those of you who want to get some MXML support in FDT I thought I'd share this little tutorial. I can't take credit for this as it was the guys from FDT who pointed this out at recent visit to LFPUG and Adobe MAX Milano way back in 2008. Lets hope we get FDT to support MXML natively so this isn't required but until then here goes. A small caveat, this will probably not work in Flex 4 as I remember them removing the mx namespace for the framework.

This is a simple Ant script that will transform your code into an HTML equivelant which you can target with a context menu item to generate a "View source" like page. Works well with Eclipse and FDT as you can execute the script post compilation. I've included some nice Kuler skins but feel free to use, abuse or misuse.

This is a follow up from the Complete Starter guide. You may want to read that first if you are new to Eclipse and FDT. The aim of this article is to provide some helpful insights when developing Flash websites using the Eclipse platform with the FDT plug-in. The focus will be more on the platform and how FDT offers certain features that you as an Actionscripter just can't live without. The Eclipse IDE is full of very useful built-in features. All of which is available to use. This article relies on the default shortcut keys when FDT is installed.

FWK is a Flash project wizard for Eclipse 3.x. This plug-in is used to improve work-flow for creating projects quickly and efficiently by minimizing the effort of setting up. By using XML templates all created stub files and folders are fully customizable to suit your individual needs.

Error: No class registered for interface 'mx.resources::IResourceManager'. If you have experienced this before, you are in for a bumpy ride. There are loads of these errors floating about when using the flex sdk to compile your project with. The reasons are vast and different but basically boils down to dependencies. Classes within the flex framework depend on a heap of other classes, that is why it is known as an Application framework.

This is something we all experience on a daily basis, we want to use some piece of code written for a previous project, and quite often we find ourselves spending way more time to make the code standalone that we would have like to. Very similarly, I want to use the RPC package for various reasons but without using the whole Flex Application framework.

So where does ResourceManager fit in and why is there no class registered for interface IResourceManager?

There are still many companies using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe even though Micorsoft themselves have decided not to extend their support for this piece of archaic software. We are still using it and in the process of moving over to Subversion. I have struggled for a bit to get this ant script set up to communicate with VSS . There aren't many resources available and my feeling is that is simply because less people are using VSS and even less use an Ant script + VSS. Hopefully this build script will help the individuals who are still stuck using VSS.