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I’ve been using Flex 2.0 now for the past month or so full time and MXML is beginnning to grow on me. I’ve found it really useful for knocking together quick custom components and thanks to all the people I’ve been hassling on a daily basis for help (you know who you are).

One thing I don’t like is that everything created with an ‘id’ in MXML is automatically public. Surely this isn’t good for a solid OOP approach. It means that any components I use within my class are available from anywhere throughout my project. It isn’t possible for me to make them inaccessable and therefore an custom API’s that should be used to access them can be easily ignored.

If you don’t give your component an ‘id’ then it can’t be accessed from outside your class, but you can’t access it from within your class either so you can only bind it to a value.

It would have been a great addition to have a tag to specify whether a component is public, internal, protected or private.

A couple of days ago ActionScript.com announced the 2006 The Battle of the Script.

There some great prizes on offer (5 in all) for the best text effects using their text effect engine TextScript. You have until May 1st!

I got contacted today by a fellow Flasher about this feature under ‘Publish Settings > Flash’ in Flash 8.

This feature is named ‘JPEG quality’ and it has a effect on GIF’s and PNG’s but not JPEG’s. This is noted in the docs but it could be a lot clearer in the IDE. It would have been better named ‘Bitmap quality (excluding JPEG’s)’ or something. How many people have used this and not realized its had no effect on their imported JPEG’s?

Apparently this worked fine on JPEG’s in Flash 7 (i haven’t tested) so its worth remebering. The only way to change the quality of a JPEG is to use the Bipmap Properties panel

Today I found this great blog about advertising from around the world. Definately worth checking out if you into Ad campaigns that cross all types of media.

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