coordy helps you keep it together
Replacing that ugly yellow actionscript focus rectangle
If you've ever put together forms using actionscript/Flash you might have noticed that your form elements are automatically assigned a tab index much like a browser may do. This is great but the user feedback regarding focus is not quite as refined as html forms. Html forms give subtle but consistent cues communicating input element focus.
Flash does this, by default, with blocky yellow rectangles around the text or button. This behavior style can be overridden in actionscript just as it can be in html. This is a quick look at one approach.
Two nifty actionscript 3 libraries
The nifty thing about using object oriented actionscript in Flash is you build up all sorts of bits and pieces of plug-n-play code to use over and over. It's valuable to have that go-to function/object that you can re-use without thinking about it. The more you use actionscript, the bigger your personal tool belt gets. If you want to give your tool belt a boost, here are two great open source actionscript libraries that you can use to do that. They both have a wide range of well thought out packages to include and both are nicely documented.
