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• Flex, Uncategorized

  AdvancED Flex 3 (Friends of Ed)

  07.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• 3d, AS3, Flash, Flex

  papervision 3d graph example with view source enabled

  04.24.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Here is a little example of the 3D graph as per my earlier post, with randomly generated data.
  

  
  My URL scheme for this blog messes up the right-click ActionScript View Source option (virtual versus real paths), so you can find it here. (I’m sure there’s a way round that but I really [...]

• AS3, Flash, Flex

  puremvc and prana

  04.21.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  After dealing with the fallout from several developers at varying levels of experience coding with their own ad hoc styles, to deadlines, I want to settle on an AS3 framework to form the basis of future large-scale projects. I considered Cairngorm for a while, but I’m now leaning towards PureMVC for several reasons.
  First, the [...]

• AS3, Flash, Flex

  as3 coding style: curly braces in flex builder

  04.17.08 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  This is a trivial matter, but it’s been bothering me for some time.
  Why does Flex Builder insist on putting the opening curly brace of a function declaration on the next line:
  function foo():void
  {
  .. instead of:
  function foo():void {
  What is the point of this waste of space, which doesn’t make anything easier to read, but justs wastes space [...]

• AIR, AS3, Flash, Flex

  going to webdu! but which sessions to see … ?

  04.16.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  C4, the company I work for, has just stumped up the cash for a ticket for me to go to WebDU.
  It’s organised into four tracks (Flash/Flex, RIA/AIR/JS, Coldfusion and general web stuff). Apart from the Coldfusion track, which I have no interest in, I’ll be checking out stuff from all of them … I think [...]

• AIR, Flex

  full screen vanishing act

  03.30.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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 [...]

• Flex

  adobe jira

  02.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I found a bug with Flex Builder, and duly reported it on Adobe’s bug site.
  The bug is minor and quite arcane - the class creation wizard malfunctions when you tell it to implement a class that extends (say) IEventDispatcher and also to extend a class that implements IEventDispatcher (you end up with the method stubs [...]

• AIR, Flex

  flex 3 / air launch

  02.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Flex 3 and AIR are officially launched today.
  Robert Scoble has posted video from the launch. The implications of the release of AIR, a cross-platform runtime for deployment of desktop apps using web development technologies (Flex/ActionScript, HTML, ECMAScript) is much more significant than the latest Flex release, nice though its features undoubtedly are.
  Hank Williams overstates the [...]

• AIR, Flex

  air experiments

  02.15.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I’m experimenting with AIR development … native drag and drop is really quite painless!
  Thanks to Raghu for the little tutorial. The APIs for Flex 3 are changing between each beta release, so it’s good someone’s staying on top of it and saving the rest of us some pain :)
  The app I’m writing should be [...]

• Flex

  intellij + flex

  02.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Version 7.0.3 of the IntelliJ IDE will have Flex support!
  Gosh. IntelliJ is head and shoulders above Eclipse, the platform Flex Builder is based on. I’ll definitely be checking it out. This will probably be scary stuff for Adobe. One consolation is that there’s no visual editor with IntelliJ.

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