Yesterday we were hooking up dynamic loading of fonts, the next item to tackle was having a download manager to add external fonts to so they could be downloaded and ready to be used when the application loads. This download manager I envisioned could be used through out the application to cue up external fonts for downloading and once they are downloaded kick off the next process. Well it looks like someone has done the heavy lifting and created such a library. Arthur Debert has released BulkLoader an AS3 library on Google Code to handle such things.

The library looks good and easy to use, I’ll follow up with a post to our integration of it with our project.

Adobe Consulting has updated the Flex Style Explorer. This app is integral in building Flex 2.0 applications when it comes to going beyond the default look for Flex applications. Check it out at http://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html