Tuesday, June 25, 2002

Actionscript Tips for Chat Clients
Now that Flash JabberConf (FJC) is released, I thought I would provide a few tips/suggestions for creating a Flash-based chat client. These first few tips deal with the technological aspects of implementing an auto-scrolling text field as a chat window, and the option of pressing the ENTER key to quickly send messages. My techniques involve using the new MX event model and methods of the ever-wonderful TextField object.

For the details and actionscript code, read more.