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November 2007

The Archives

ActionScript, Bugs, Flex 2
Scroll Mask
Stelian Crisan | 30.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

I was working to a flex project, I need a canvas where I have to put some elements on a big surface, so I really need to have scrollbars. That’s fine. If I move an object to the right-bottom corner it’s working great, if the object goes out of working space, will go under scrollbars, [...]
ActionScript
Access the Query-String Variables from Flex Application
Andrei Ionescu | 28.11.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

Working on a project we arrived at a point where we needed to read inside the flex application the variables set in the query string. But in the SWF case we have two situations: 1) the query string is in the URL (like yoursite.com/page.php?param1=aaa) and 2) the query string is in the embedded SWF Object [...]
ActionScript, Security
As3Crypto – ActionScript 3 Cryptography Library
Andrei Ionescu | 27.11.07 | Permalink | 12 Comments

Today I found this interesting library – AS3 Crypto Framework 1.3. Many algorithms used for cryptography are implemented in this class: TLS 1.0 support (partial), X.509 Certificate parsing and validation, RSA (encrypt/decrypt, sign/verify), AES, DES, 3DES, BlowFish, XTEA, RC4, ECB, CBC, CFB, CFB8, OFB, CTR, MD2, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, PKCS#5, PKCS#1 type 1 and [...]
ActionScript, Flex in the world, PHP
Flex and PHP – Party in the Front, Business in the Back
Andrei Ionescu | 19.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Last days I found a very interesting and easy learning article about how Flex application can interact with PHP on the server-side. The article shows how this two technologies can work together. On the server-side Zend Framework, a MVC platform, which I used a lot is used to structure the application and to be able [...]
ActionScript, Flex in the world, Flex news
Actionscript among other programming languages – Stats
Andrei Ionescu | 19.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

The following study about programming languages compares the different programming languages like C, PHP, Java, Ruby, Actionscript and others. we are interested to see how Actionscript is standing compared to other languages. As you already may know C and Java are the first 2 and PHP seems to be the third but Actionscript is still [...]
3D, ActionScript
Sandy 3D Engine in Actionscript
Andrei Ionescu | 14.11.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

This 3D engine already at version 3.0 thing that means it is growing.
Here it is: http://www.flashsandy.org/.
Demos here: http://www.flashsandy.org/demos
This is the demo I liked: http://www.flashsandy.org/demos/protopop_walk

We had another post (Framework spotlight) in the past also regarding another 3D framework and seeing how this is evolving we can say that in the future we may have MMORPGs and [...]
ActionScript, Security
CAPTCHA in Flex – Using to Check the User
Andrei Ionescu | 09.11.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Now here is an example how to check a user using our CAPTCHA.

For source files see bellow.
ActionScript, Flex 2
Compare two objects
Virgil Cristea | 07.11.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

If you ever wondered how can you compare 2 objects (big structure objects that can not be compared by Flex itself using the === operator) in Flex to find out if they are identically the same one of the methods used were to check all their attributes.
ActionScript, Flex 2
mixin
Virgil Cristea | 05.11.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I wanted to talk a while ago about the [Mixin] meta-data tag but I forgot .
Most programmers have heard of the static code concept but if they try to implement it in AS3/Flex they have problems. Here is how to do it:

package
{
import mx.managers.ISystemManager;

[Mixin]
public class StaticCode
[...]
ActionScript, Flex news
Actionscript 3 Search Trend by Google
Andrei Ionescu | 05.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

The searches about Actionscript 3 are increasing and that means more interest in Actionscript 3 and frameworks that includes Actionscript 3 like Flex and Flash.
The ranking is:

Sweden
Netherlands
Romania
Australia
Israel

For more info see google report.
ActionScript, Security
CAPTCHA in Flex – Running Example
Andrei Ionescu | 01.11.07 | Permalink | 12 Comments

And now here is a running example. This shows how to generate a CAPTCHA setting about 4 parameters.

More parameters can be added to this example, like dots size, polygons transparency, font size but all that are features.
Enjoy!
PS: Sources are bellow.

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