Flash Remoting (AS2) in Flash CS3
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007I’m surprised that while any sort of remote connection classes you could want are included in the core packages of ActionScript 3.0, if you are working with ActionScript 2.0 within Flash CS3, the classes you need are still not included under a default install. I’ve lamented this fact for years as it has held true each time Macromedia/Adobe releases a new version of the IDE. There may be an excellent reason for this but I do not know what it could be.
Flash CS3 does not include the NetConnection Debugger either. I’ve found that the simplest thing to do is to use the SWC files from Flash 8 alongside the NetConnectionDebugger.swf which is launched separately. It works quite well so I’ve packaged both an FLA with the Remoting SWC components along with the NetConnectionDebugger.swf which can all be used to get around the fact that none this vital stuff is shipped along with the new authoring environment.
You can also download the unpackaged classes from here.
