Isn’t it a great feeling when a project that you’ve been working on for a long time finally goes live?
Introducing Makebook: a web app that lets you create books and manage a library of stories, recipes, poems, whatever … I’ve been developing the Flex front end for about 7-8 months now, and it’s been [...]
I just made one of those little spinning things you get on the Mac – not the colourful wheel that means something is wrong, just the calm little thing with spokes. It’s on Firefox tabs. I’m not sure what it’s called – I’ve called mine an ActivitySpinner.
See an example here – view source is [...]
I have been investigating options for a “flipbook” view in Flex. There is one from Ely Greenfield of QuietlyScheming called FlexBook, released in March 07, and another one by Ruben Swieringa just called Book, released a few months afterward.
I will probably go with Ruben Swiergina’s one, simply because it has API docs, and it took [...]
So I’m digging into the specifics of the new textLayout API on Labs, and I’m wondering, after I’ve been able to get the text just-so on the screen, how this will translate to print?
Can Coldfusion, for instance – I’m referring to that because it’s Adobe’s pet server technology, not because I have any affection for [...]
Adobe has put up an API on Labs that makes use of the low level capabilities of the flash.text.engine package in Flash Player 10. Just downloaded and having a look at the examples. This is huge … Flash (meaning the player, and therefore Flex also) has sucked really badly at text for so long.
Now we [...]
Look at this bug on Adobe’s Jira. It’s not a show-stopper but it’s pretty annoying: FB keeps eating half the imports in any of my classes that use the flash.text.engine package, any time it adds an import. For some reason it “knows” about ElementFormat and TextElement but it doesn’t “know” about TextLine and GroupElement (and [...]
Here’s an interesting little hack that has, at a stroke, saved me enormous headaches with getting Flash-authored content (IUMovieClip) to play nice in Flex apps.
A little background: the Flash stuff I get from my designer does not conform to what Flex expects from its components. Things stick out the sides, animate all over the place, [...]
Vinnie Vivace from New Zealand raises an interesting problem, exactly the same one as I’m having. He is authoring UIMovieClips in Flash using the Flex Component Kit for Flash. He is getting compiler errors because certain classes are missing, such as ArrayCollection.
A commenter on his blog suggests that he eliminate all dependency on Flex classes. [...]
Once again – Adobe’s documentation is totally unhelpful.
For reasons that aren’t worth going into, I want to add Operation objects programmatically to a RemoteObject. The “operations” attribute (defined in AbstractService) has the following helpful information:
The Operations array is usually only set by the MXML compiler if you create a service using an MXML tag.
Fantastic. [...]
Just finished writing a chapter for Advanced Flex 3 – a forthcoming Friends of Ed title, due out in October. The authors are Shashank Tiwari, Elad Elrom and Jack Herrington (I’m just contributing one chapter on 3D, mostly about Papervision).
The problem is, as with all writing (apart from blogging, which is more or less [...]
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