Flash code: ActionScript tips for Flash chat clients

Sean Voisen (eat orange has posted a few tips for creating a Flash-based chat client.

He writes:

These first few tips deal with the technological aspects of implementing an auto-scrolling text field as a chat window, and the option of pressing the ENTER key to quickly send messages. My techniques involve using the new MX event model and methods of the ever-wonderful TextField object.

Good information for anyone that is making a Flash based chat application, maybe with something like Sean's FlashJabber Conf