Paul Colton has ported my Flash 8 wood texture code to AFLAX. It's amazing that it works so well. He must have figured out some sneaky, under-the-hood code to make it work (sneaky in a good way). Still blows my mind.

In addition to creating typical Flash movies, here's another possible use for AFLAX: Flash Forms for PHP (or ASP.NET for that matter).

Until recently, I had no idea what Flash Forms were. But a couple nights ago, I attended an mmsug meeting where Derek Versteegen demonstrated some work he's done with Flash Forms and how they work.

I am incapable of writing any code without a trace utility. I need to see variables change over time, loop counters increment, etc. I haven't been able to find a JavaScript trace utility, so I wrote my own.

Actually, it is so simple, that maybe developers write their own when they need one. In any case, you can view it in operation here.

To get the code, either use the 'View Source' button in your browser or download this zip file.

To use it, you need to include trace.js in the html file being debugged.