Hot off the presses, the official Adobe technology platform ActionScript reference for RIA development is now available. The notebook-format document provides a complete ActionScript 3 API listing for Flash Player, Flex 3 and Adobe AIR.
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New AS3 Reference Guide Published
March 18th, 2008 Chris Griffith
Nice design-y all Flex site…
March 6th, 2008 dwebb
Contact at RED sent me this one this morning - pretty cool functionality inside and all of it’s Flex. It’s a little slow right now, but they haven’t opened it up to everyone yet (beta, beta, beta). Great showcase of the technology.
Promoting Flex Applications
February 19th, 2008 Kyle
Have you ever found yourself wondering “how do I let people know that my flex application is a BIG DEAL?” Well, you’re in luck! Mike Potter has posted an entry on Adobe’s Flex Team Blog discussing how to do just that! In the article, he discuss many of the ways to share your Flex App with the work, including the Flex Showcase, and the Adobe Site of the Day! You can read his post HERE!
Custom Item Renderer Demo
February 13th, 2008 Chris Griffith
Since the last meeting had a live coding demo by Sean, I thought I would take the time and recreate the code for the group. I did change things a little. The data feed is the main public Twitter feed. I take the user’s icon and last tweet and combine that into one element for use in the List component. If you click on the icon, I display an alert with the user’s name.
I put the mxml files up on the Google Groups site
See everyone at the next meeting!
Flex Framework Showdown
February 13th, 2008 admin
A great presentation by Luke Bayes and Ali Mills (from such projects as ASUnit and and ProjectSprouts), discussing a handful of the available Flex Frameworks and which they’ve found to be the best. If you’re unfamiliar with Frameworks for flex or why you’d want to use one, spend a little time researching Cairngorm and PureMVC (two of their favorites) before watching the presentation. There’s a great series of articles introducing Cairngorm HERE, and you can read up on PureMVC HERE. When you feel comfortable with the idea of what a framework is and why you’d want to use one, then it’s time to watch these guys tear into some of the best options and nail down the pro’s and con’s of each! CLICK ME TO LAUNCH THE PRESENTATION!
Flex List Items With Dynamic Heights
February 7th, 2008 Kyle
I was playing around with custom building custom item renderers today in flex and ran into a rather annoying problem: when using multiple item renderers in a single list or datagrid component, all of the items inherit the height and width properties of the first item that gets added to the list/datagrid. In my case, I wanted the first item added to be only 25px in height, and have subsequent items be of varying heights. I searched far and wide across the “google-verse” (insert copyright logo here) and found a bunch of solutions that discussed having to create your own custom list component to achieve the desired result, then I came across the holy grail, a property of the list component that would solve all of my problems, the answer… “variableRowHeight=’true’”. Once I set that on my list components all of the list items were allowed to have their own unique height. WOOH!
Syntax coloring in Flex Builder 2
February 5th, 2008 Kyle
For those of you that may have been a bit dissatisfied with the plain old color scheme of the flex builder 2 idea, or just don’t want to burn your retinas out staring at black code on a white screen all day, there is hope! There’s a great article (very short and to the point) on how to accomplish this here: CLICK ME
Flex Builder Debugging Woes
February 5th, 2008 Kyle
I recently updated to the latest version of Flash Player 9 (debug version), and after doing so I started getting the following errors in flex builder when trying to build in debug mode:
“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\NPSWF32.dll
Flex Builder cannot locate the required version of the Flash Player. You may need to install Flash Player 9.0 or reinstall Flex Builder. Do you want to try to run your application with the current version?”
I first tried uninstalling and reinstalling the flash player, which didn’t really do too much for me. Then I turned to my trusty sidekick google and started digging through forum posts until I found a solution that worked for me. The problem is this: Flex Builder was looking for the file npswf32.dll in the “C:/ProgramFiles/Mozilla Firefox/plugins” directory; however, Adobe installs this dll file in the “C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash” directory. All I had to do was copy the NPSWF32.dll file over to the firefox plugins directory and everything returned to normal..
SlideRocket
January 2nd, 2008 Kyle
Yet another promising application built on Flex. “SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.”
Check it out here:SlideRocket.com
Watch the Adobe Dev presentation here: Adobe Dev SlideRocket Presentation
New Release on Adobe Labs!
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