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• New Year, New Domain

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• Flash Mouse Wheel Support

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• Scrollable Flex Charts

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• Dynamically Resizing Your Flex Application

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• Five gallons of milk in a four gallon box

  346 readersJust posting this because maybe it will help someone... I decided to try using a TextLayout component in a SWF loaded into a rather large Flex app that has been in development for some time.. well.. it blowed up. Main Thread (Suspended: VerifyError: Error #1014: Class flash.text.engine::ContentElement could not be found.) Here's the weird part...

• Actionscript 3 watermark image class

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• Flash is good for the Soul (wire?)

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• Unable to export SWC oem

  462 readersBeen switching environments a bit lately from Flash Builder to Flex Builder and back and using different SDKs. When importing a new project that someone had checked in from a different version, the .flexLibProperties file was causing this issue. After much scouring, I found something that worked. Open .flexLibProperties and find the section <includeResource/>. Remove

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