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33vestry.com, a marketing site for a new high-end condo building in Tribeca, NYC. is finally live. Working with Ben Kaubisch over at 6one8.com, we put together a nice site for what looks to be a very nice building.

After all of the hardcore Flex work, it is nice to work on a simple, old-school Flash project once in a while.

Not super recent news, but Trevor McCauley over at senocular.com posted a really good Actionscript 3 Tips of the Day entry over on the Kirupa forums. In particular, there are some good new tips on ‘Class member enumeration’ and also the undocumented ‘addFrameScript’ property. Enjoy.

Are you a Flex coder? Ever feel constrained by the default ButtonSkin provided with the Flex application? I have some good news for you. I have been working on an ‘enhanced’ version of the skin that allows for more fine-grained control over button display such as explicit, multiple gradient and border colors for each button state, border thickness, as well as individual corner radii.

Here is an example demonstrating a few of the newly supported style values.

.customButtonStyle {
    cornerRadii: 16, 0, 16, 0;
    borderColors: #006699, #006699;
    borderThickness: 3;
    fillColors: #FCFFF4, #006699, #FCFFF4,
    fillAlphas: 0.5, 0.5, 0.5;
    fillColorRatios: 0, 128, 255;
}

Check out the style explorer that I built for the skin, or go to Flexlib to download the source.