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June 2009

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Flash Player, Flex news
Flash Player Version Penetration
Andrei Ionescu | 27.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Last year on 1st of August I presented some stats on Flash Player Penetration. Now we have some new stats regarding the versions of Flash Player.
What to notice?

That in a few month Flash Player 10 will overcome Flash Player 9.
That Japan is the fastest adopting country of Flash Player 10.
That in half of an [...]
ActionScript, Components, Events, Flex resources, How to, MXML
How To Create Bindable Properties (using Getters and Setters Methods) in Flex
Andrei Ionescu | 26.06.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Let’s say you created a new component and you want to add some properties that need to be bindable. Something like this:

<flexer:myComp width="400" height="200" myNewSetter="{_myData}" />
<mx:Script>
[Bindable]
private var _myData:String= "";
</mx:Script>

And when we do this

_myData = "new_val_1";

the myComp component should know that _myData has changed and should modify itself [...]
Flash, Flash CS4 Professional
Does Your Flash CS4 Professional Crashes When Trying To Edit Text Objects Containing Corrupted Fonts?
Andrei Ionescu | 23.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

If your Flash CS4 crashes when you try to edit some text object is because there is a problem with the font – it may be corrupted or may contain ambiguous data or there are more than one font with the same name or the font symbol name is identical to the Postscript name of [...]
Flash, SEO
Google Is Indexing Flash with External Resource Loading
Andrei Ionescu | 22.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

On 18th of June Google announced that now they support Flash indexing with external resource loading.
Quoting Janis Stipins, Software Engineer at Google:
This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file – whether it’s text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc. – we can index this external content too, and associate [...]
Flex 4 SDK, How to, Skin, Spark
How to skin a button with icon in Flex 4 SDK – spark
Stelian Crisan | 12.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

It’s recommended to use same SDK version components in same file, so I skin a button in Flex SDK 4 using only Spark components.
In Halo we use to add an icon to a button using icon property:

<mx:Button width="120"
icon="@Embed(source=’ico/add-blue.gif’)"
[...]
Flex 4 SDK, How to, Skin, Spark
How to skin a container with padding in Flex 4 SDK – Spark
Stelian Crisan | 11.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Now Flash Builder 4 and Flex SDK 4 are available, so we can play around in beta version.
As you probably already know there are same changes regarding skinning from Halo to Spark, I search the web, I read the manual and I think that I got some skills .
It will be a series of [...]
Flash, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 SDK, Flex news, Flexer
Bucharest Pit Stop Passed
Andrei Ionescu | 11.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday (10.06.2009) at Adobe Systems Romania offices took place the Adobe User Groups Tour – Bucharest Pit Stop event. The event was a success – great things presented. Even all tickets were sold out long time before the event only 40 persons showed up at the event.

The event was about new beta products that [...]
Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 SDK, PHP
Agenda for Flex 4 Tour – Bucharest Pit Stop
Stelian Crisan | 03.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

As was expected we have at this time a final agenda for this event.
17:00 – 17:30
Registration participants
17:30 – 17:45
Opening Message
17:45 – 19:00
Flash Builder 4 & Catalyst, Cornel Creanga & Michael Corlan
19:00 – 19:45
Break for pizza and beer
19:45 – 20:15
Flex 4 SDK, Michael Pricop
20:15 – 20:45
PHP Services in Flash Builder 4, Andrei Ionescu
20:45 – 21:00
Break
21:15 – [...]
Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 SDK
Cluj Flex Camp – June 06, 2009
Stelian Crisan | 02.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Adobe User Group Tour 2009 will stop also in Cluj, Romania.
So, Transylvania Flex Group invites you all to the firs ever Flex camp to take place in Cluj-Napoca. You will be able to witness all the news related to the Adobe Flash Platform, Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4. There will be adobe [...]
Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, Flex IDE, Flex in the world, Flex news
Flash Catalyst & Flash Builder are Now Public Beta
Andrei Ionescu | 01.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Starting today, Flash Catalyst & Flash Builder 4 are in public beta.

You can download them from Adobe’s site by following these links:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/ for Flash Catalyst
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4/ for Flash Builder

If didn’t hear about them, Flash Catalyst is:
…a new professional interaction design tool for rapidly creating user interfaces without coding.
And Flash Builder 4 is the [...]

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