| March 5, 2008 |
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
As you may have heard, Adobe has announced the release of Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0. Now that the cat is out of the bag, this will be the focus of our March 5th special meeting! Adobe is sponsoring this meeting with food, giveaways and a raffle copy of Adobe Flex Professional.
Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.
Adobe AIR is game-changing in so many ways, delivering rich applications on the desktop, enabling access to the local file system, system tray, notifications and much more. Now you can write RIAs on the desktop using the same skills that you’ve been already using to create great web apps including both Flex and AJAX.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to see and hear about this highly anticipated release of Flex 3 and AIR at this meeting.
Who: You and everyone else you know! If we get over 50 Attendees we will be raffling off a copy of Adobe CS3 Web Premium, so bring some friends!
What: See above!
When: Monday, February 25, 2008 from 7-9PM
Where: Veoh Networks
7220 Trade St. Suite 115
San Diego, CA 92121
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Why? The better question is why not! Exciting info. from Adobe, food, drinks, giveaways, what else could you ask for!
RSVP: kyle@sdfug.org with subject “Secret Meeting Atendee.”
January 11th, 2008 Kyle
Josh Tynjala over at ZeuseLabs wrote a great article on creating Abstract Classes in AS3.
Check it out here: Astract Classes in AS3
December 17th, 2007 Kyle
Flex 3 public beta 3 available on Labs
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/
Adobe AIR beta 3
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/
BlazeDS beta
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/blazeds/
Adobe AIR update for Flash CS3 Professional beta 3
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR:Flash_CS3_Professional_Update
Adobe AIR Extension for Adobe Dreamweaver beta 3
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR:Dreamweaver_CS3_Extension
October 29th, 2007 Kyle
So I ran into a little problem today and I thought I’d share it with you guys. I created a button that had a static text field inside of it, then I tried to simply fade the button in and out. This worked fine in my test files; however when I tried to put the same code into my actual application, the fades all failed to work. After beating my head against a wall for a few hours (note to self, get foam padding for walls at office), I finally came upon the source of my problem: a font that I had embedded into my library. I have been forced to embed fonts in my library at publish time (go to your library, then click on the options drop-down in the upper-right and select New Font) due to an error with Flash CS3 / Actionscript 3 not actually allowing you to embed fonts via actionscript (as is stated in all current documentation). So what is happening is this: by embedding the font in my library, it is somehow not allowing any static text fields that use that same font-family to be animated in any way (including fades). My only options were to either delete the embedded font from my library (which resulted in all of my dynamically created text fields that use that font breaking), or to simply use a different font-family for the static text fields. I chose the latter (Tahoma is pretty close to verdana, and at a 10 point font size, you barely notice) as it worked well in my situation. Hopefully this will be fixed with future release/updates to flash, but for now those are the only options I’ve found.. Off to find some advil …
October 17th, 2007 Kyle
If you haven’t heard of FlashDevelop, you may want to check your pulse, then head on over to flashdevelop.org and download the latest Release. FlashDevelop has become the editor of choice for many Actionscript programmers, offering many great features including code hinting, sytanx high-lighting, firefox style search functionality just to name a few. And to make things even better, it’s FREE!
One issue that many users have run into with this application is changing the color and formatting of their code. Well if you’re one of the people who’ve been banging your head against the wall trying to figure out how to change the color settings to something other than the default white background, then it’s your lucky day! The first thing you need to do is fire up FlashDevelop. Next go to Tools -> Application Files, and look for a directory called “settings” inside the FlashDevelop directory. The two files that you are going to be concerned with are ScintillaNET.xml languages/as3.xml (or as2.xml if you are working in AS2 still). Inside these files you will find all of the properties you will need in order to customize the appearance of your code. I’m including a .zip file which contains the color scheme that I am using, along with some comments explaining which properties do what. Enjoy!
Example Files