Last year, I used the CasaFramework in my localization projects and pretty much saved me from further angst in Font usage in AS2 Flash development.
Recently, Aaron Clinger and Michael Creighton have released an AS3 version of the library. Also a new AS2 version has been released as well. (v. 1.5) I am sure there are many frameworks and libraries out there. I just mention this because they have a very good community base. I don’t know what I would do with out it in my AS2 development.
You can find the library at: http://casalib.org.
DJ
The release of AIR along with Flex 3 last month (as well as an update to Flash CS3) gave us the possibility of creating intermittent internet connected desktop apps instead of being bound to the browser. (Can anyone say. “Click here to activate this ActiveX control?” in their IE explorer? Yeech!) Well, I’ve been developing such applications waaaaay before AIR caused a stir in the Flash community. These SWF2EXE applications converted your Flash .swf movies and pretty much added more functionality with additional commands. (It would be a good idea to do a feature by feature comparison between Adobe AIR and these SWF2EXEs.) Some of them created screen savers, and others became full-fledged applications. To see a list, check out the wikipedia definition at