If you have a big project you will soon find out that you’ll need to have to versions of the application. One that you work on and one that you need to give it as a release build. On a release build you need to get rid of unwanted things like pre-filed login credentials that [...]
This Flex component allow you to play Youtube movies into you Flex applications and also to be able to customize the look of your player. Actually I put a main movie component and two control sections, one for: play, stop, mute, unmute and time figures (current second and total number of seconds of the movie); [...]
If you need to know the key codes when implementing a keyboard event use the following application that displays some info about the pressed key. First you need to click on the application to have focus on it then you can start trying out different key strokes.
Some key codes, ASCII codes [...]
Flash MiniBuilder is a lightweight IDE created for developing programs written in ActionScript 3. Flash MiniBuilder is itself written in ActionScript.
Two of the main raison tobe of MiniBuilder are:
provide a completely free and cross platform alternative for developing ActionScript projects.
provide an editor with a small footprint that would eventually run on smaller computers like netbooks [...]
If you ever got into the following error (see bellow after this paragraph) you must know how you can overcome it.
The error is triggered only in debugging. No trace of it in the normal run. But if you need to debug and get this error it will pause the debug session and even after [...]
What is AMF and a bit of history
Action Message Format (AMF) is a compact binary format that is used to serialize ActionScript object graphs. Once serialized an AMF encoded object graph may be used to persist and retrieve the public state of an application across sessions or allow two endpoints to communicate through the exchange [...]
If you’ve been following Serge Jesper son Twitter, you may have seen his tweets about a secret project called Quindici. Well… the project now is finalized and public… and is a widget created especially for Adobe MAX Conference.
You can see it bellow or on MAX Conference site.
You can find some interesting facts about Adobe MAX [...]
This is a good thing for us, developers. We will have the possibility to access this good resource free and easy. To quote their press release:
Since September 2009 FFD Magazine becomes online magazine. What is important – it will be also FREE of ANY charges. The only thing you need to do is to sign [...]
Adobe release other two projects into the open source world. We are speaking about: Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) and Text Layout Framework (TLF).
Open Source Media Framework was previously known as Strobe, now is a an open framework for building media players for the Flash Platform. Download it from here and for more information about [...]
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 [...]
First of all the bootcamps were a success if we think about that all tickets were sold out before the Adobe Developer Day started. The resources used at three of bootcamps held at Adobe Developer Day are now available by the evangelists Cornel Creanga and Mihai Corlan on their blogs.
Using the following links you [...]
I’ve been playing with Tweensy these days. Tried to understand how it works and how to create effects using particles generator. At some point I run into an error like the following one:
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable Box is not defined.
at global/flash.utils::getDefinitionByName()
…
What triggered it is this part of [...]
This week I’ve been searching for a tweening library. Previously I’ve been using more than one tween library like: TweenMax, TweenLight, Tweener, GTween, Adobe’s Tween, etc.
But I found about a new tweening library called Tweensy by Shane McCartney on Lost In Actionscript blog.
If you wonder what is new to this tweening library, well…
A Bitmap rendering [...]
I’ve been working on an article for Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. The article’s name is How to use Yahoo! Maps in Flex and show how you can use Yahoo! Maps on your RIA. The article is based on two articles from our blog which had been combined and developed further.
The articles are:
How To Add [...]
This weekend I’ve been programming a new tree component that is intended to be used as a hierarchical menu. One thing that I have to do was to change the default behavior of the disclosureIcon. If you wonder what is the disclosureIcon, it is the grey arrow that shows if there is a node or [...]