An Excellent Tutorial on How to Create Custom Components with Action Script 2.0

Flash MX and MX 2004 include the v2 Flash component architecture and enable you to develop your own custom components.

Here’s an excellent article that goes through, step-by-step, on how to write your own class files, component movie clips and export to .swc.

Creating Components with Flash MX 2004

by Joey Lott (www.person13.com)

Don’t let the idea of writing a custom component intimidate
you. Although components may appear very complex, they are really just fancy
movie clips. You → Continue reading “An Excellent Tutorial on How to Create Custom Components with Action Script 2.0”

Thunderbird not able to save to Sent or Drafts folder with an IMAP account

I’m migrating my workstation to CentOS 5.  I’ve decided it’s time to retire my old Mozilla suite install and upgrade to the latest of Firefox and Thunderbird.

If you are using an IMAP account, Thunderbird has an annoying bug whereby it hangs when attempting to copy a sent message to the Sent, or Drafts folder on the server.

Click on the Read More link for the fix . . . 
After quite a bit of searching and trial and error → Continue reading “Thunderbird not able to save to Sent or Drafts folder with an IMAP account”