I have come across a strange problem trying to make an AIR app, authored in Flex, go fullscreen.
First of all, I hit the problem of trying to use the “stage” reference of WindowedApplication in my creationComplete handler method. As John C. Bland II points out, “when creationComplete is called the stage object is null”. He [...]
I just made a little AIR app that lets you run batches of SQL statements against an SQLite database.
Install it if you like, but be aware that it’s a very basic and untested app, and Christopher Coenraets’ SQLite Admin for AIR does everything my little app does, and more …
I have updated the Almirun Common Libraries with some new classes. Most useful is likely to be the LoremIpsumGenerator class, an AS3 version of the Java class LoremIpsum4J. “Lorem ipsum” is the standard pseudo-Latin text used as filler when doing page layouts, and this is an easy way to grab as little or as much [...]
I decided I would try out Microsoft’s Expression today. The .NET folks downstairs are getting enthusiastic about Silverlight, and I’m pretty sure I’ll hate it, but I should really give it a go and hate it in an informed way.
First, I decided I’d try the Design application. Expression is a software suite, set up to [...]
I just came across this AIR-based SQLite GUI.
It’s pretty basic yet but shows a lot of promise. Excellent use of Flex. I expect great things for future releases!
I’ve just put up some AS3 utility classes on RIAForge (project: Almirun Common Libraries).
I intend to grow the list as and when I build new classes. They’re all licensed under LGPL so commercial projects can be compiled against the library without “infecting” the projects with open source-ness.
So far we have a StringManipulator class, with [...]
My earlier post with code for an abstract class on which to base typesafe enumerations was flawed.
The “enumLock” variable will lock all enumerations. So the first reference to any enumeration based on the class will break all subsequent ones, even of different subclasses.
I guess this just shows inheritance and enumerated types don’t mix!
We [...]
I’ve been trawling the web for cool AIR apps and techniques for AIR development. Here’s what I’ve seen thus far.
David Tucker has ten handy AIR dev tips (like this one for serialising objects).
There’s a “top 100 music videos” app from AOL. Pretty slick. Reminded me of how much I hate commercial music. There was only [...]
Try this. Open the Flash IDE. Bring up the help panel. Search for “Inspectable” under All Books. See how everything that comes up is related to AS2 (apart from two irrelevent matches)? And wonder, in vain, Where is the documentation that will help me to build a component?
I’m not trying to do anything incredibly difficult. [...]
More fun with Papervision3D and AIR.
Using a Cube decorated with six MovieMaterial instances that feed on BitmapData objects taken from instances AIR’s HTMLLoader, we get a little 3D browser cube:
Here is the app. View source is enabled (warning: very scrappy experimental code).
I was hoping the HTML objects would allow me to load Flash content … [...]
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