Well, not much heard from me in a while… busy busy busy ;) But the birth of Macromedia labs has to be shouted out. No tonly because it is a great initiative, but more so because of the public flex 2.0 alpha can be downloaded in the new labs. Go try it out if you can, i know i will….

After all the mind boggling previews of the new graphics enhancements of the upcoming flash player 8, i was wondering if the same could be said about actionscript performance… well it can :) This movie takes about 20% in Flash player 7….. it takes 1% in flash player 8 (beta!). Sigh, gotta love those MM guys.

After looking like crazy for an easy, small and (for me) understandable scrollbar, i gave up and fixed up one of my own. It’s probably the most ‘low budget’/'low level’ scrollbar ever, but heck, someobody might want it.

The upside of it is, it’s easy to maintain. With that I mean that nothing is automatically done for you, you’ll have to add code and customize the look by hand. The downside of it is…. well read the line before this one :) It’s just a scrollbar shooting out events when changing postions and you acting upon it. Other way around is that you can shoot events to the scrollbar if something in your movie changes.

Is it great code? – No
Is it high level coding? – Absolutely not
Should i download this? – Only if you are in desperate need of a scrollbar ;)