There are a number of issues with Eclipse that we have been running into and they all appear to be related to integrated CVS feature. We'll be using this post to keep track of these issues and mention any workarounds and/or bug fixes that we may find.

1. ActionScript files are seen as *binary* by default. We have our suspicions that this may be somehow related to Flash MX 2004 Pro environment being registered as the default application for AS files.

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What would we do without icons? Chances are you cannot glance around your screen at any given moment without spotting one of these bold little creatures staring back at you with that begging "click me" look that we all know only too well. They're everywhere! Lined up on toolbars, peering out from within menus, sunbathing on buttons... No surprise, then, that they are good friends to have if you build RIAs. Therein lies the rub: These little critters are also notoriously difficult to create in both an aesthetically pleasing and functional manner. Fear not, however, since all hope does not rest solely on hiring one of a handful of expert icon designers to recreate the wheel for your next application (although, depending on your business domain, that may just be the most efficient, and economic, route to take for your project.) Enter, icon libraries.

As creating icons is a difficult art, finding a quality icon library suitable for use in a professional RIA is all that much harder. That is why, dear reader, I have a feeling that you are about to send some very warm karma my way. Here are two icon libraries that should fit the bill:

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The following downloads are available from Flash Ant. All software released here is open source but please make sure you check the specific licenses for each of the packages to know *which* open source license a package is being released under. Some may be GPL, while others LGPL and/or MIT/BSD.

• Flash Ant and Flash Ant Lite

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As Director of Educational Content on Ultrashock, I play the role of editor when it comes to the tutorials and articles on Ultrashock.com. I also try and write one every now and then as time permits.

It was great fun working with some of the top names in the Flash and RIA worlds -- among them, Phillip Kerman, Dave Yang, Grant Skinner and Peter Hall -- to create our latest series of tutorials for Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX 2004 Professional.

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Here are links to articles I've written for Macromedia DevNet. I hope you find them useful:

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