As I mentioned some days ago I am working on an IRC client for Flash 8.5. Of course there is currently no version in circulation but why not start developing a RIA which will be complete with all the new features? Of course it is only the public alpha but the use of binary sockets will be possible with 8.5 and with the Flex builder and that is so great. Because I do not know how compiling will work I started with a 100% MTASC project. On the one hand there is the possibility to build the 8.5 version with a new MTASC release and on the other hand the Flex build will hopefully compile my Main class without much problems.
I will release the whole application as an open source project here when it is done. Maybe this might be interesting for somebody. I also started to document my classes. But using components and packages of other people (the as2base for example, which does not compile with MTASC) makes it hard to comment everything understandable.
Hi, althought it is veeery late since you wrote this article it is been helping me to understand the basics to start developing something with the sockets, thanx :-D