Wednesday, 27th of January, in Bucharest, Mark Anders, the creator of Flash Catalyst will tell us how Flash Catalyst appeared and how it got done. For anyone who doesn’t know about him, Mark Anders is a major contributor for the whole Adobe Flex platform.
The meeting starts at 6 PM but we will start gather and [...]
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 [...]
The 3.4 version of Flex SDK is available. An important vulnerability has been identified in Flex 3.3 SDK and earlier versions which could result in cross-site scripting. This technote explains the important vulnerability found in the previous version of the Flex SDK.
Please go to Adobe Open Source website and download the Flex 3.4 SDK version.
It [...]
Many of you may already know about the rebranding of Flex Builder. It will no longer be named Flex Builder but Flash Builder. Adobe took this action in order to make the Flash name (and platform) a stronger one. Flex will not disappear but it will remain as framework. Neither Flash IDE. I know many [...]
In the previous months some of Adobe evangelists handed out licensees of Flex Builder for people without job in order to help them get a job by reconverting them. Ben Forta said on his blog:
We did not launch a full program for this, just a grassroots initiative thought up and delivered by your friendly Adobe [...]
If you didn’t know by now, the version 3.3 of Flex SDK is released. You can download it from here.
As Mihai Corlan from Adobe said…
Basically it is about bug fixes, and including the last players. Last week the AIR 1.5.1 was launched, it was natural to come with this SDK too.
…no new features.
The bugs [...]
In a previous article I explained how to create a custom preloader that will replace the very first flex preloader (the one that appears when starting application). That article was created using Flex Builder 2 and now needs an update because Flex Builder is at version 3 since a good time and Gumbo is on [...]
I think some of you may encountered this “wonderful” runtime error, mostly when you work in a team, building different applications that will load in another one.
Shortly the application is telling us that parts are build using different versions of Flex SDK. In my case the main application was build using Flex SDK version 3.1.0 [...]
Last week I had to write a small piece of code to send to a webservice a number from a text input. All was fine for the normal test values (0,1,100). The problem appeared when I tried to send the number -9223372036854775808. Instead of receiving this number I got -9223372036854776000. So I started to do [...]
On 18th of August Matt Chotin announce the availability of Flex Builder 3.0.1 Update which includes Flex SDK 3.1.
This is what it contains:
bug fixes (jira list here)
support for Flash Player 10 – just base support
support for AIR 1.1
support for Eclipse 3.4
You can update your Flex Builder 3 by selecting Search for Flex Builder Updates… [...]
In the previous article I explained how to use Yahoo! Maps. Now I’ll explain how to create a custom marker and how to place it on the map. This is not an easy task because on Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) there is not enough documentation regarding Yahoo! Maps API for AS3. Take a look at [...]
This article will explain how to integrate the Yahoo! Maps into your Flex application. Is important to know that in this we are using Flex Builder 3 and that the example and the code won’t work in Flex Builder 2 (it seems that in Flex Builder 2 there are some compiling problems with the SWC [...]
As we promised we are back with a tutorial on how to build Flex applications for Astro flash player. This will be a step by step tutorial which is intended to help you install the last Flex SDK from daily builds. So let’s start…
1) Get the Flex SDK Daily build.
2) Create a new folder: “3.0.1.1739“.
3) [...]
Bellow you can find a list tags and their attributes that are supported by flash player (and also by flex framework). This list applies to TextArea, TextFields and other controls that are html enabled.
Anchor tag (<a>)
Creates a hypertext link.
href
target
Bold tag (<b>)
Renders text as bold.
Break tag (<br>)
Creates a line break in the text field.
Font tag (<font>)
Specifies [...]
For big projects that involves more people a version control software is a must. There are many but from the two most used, which are CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and SVN (Subversion), I’ll explain how to install Subclipse on Flex Builder 3 – Subclipse is a plug-in providing support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE [...]