Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Occasionally I have the sense that I might be doing something as a workaround that is completely unnecessary, as though I'm jumping through hoops, listening for an exact sequence of one hundred events, and then squinting my eyes and tilting the monitor just right in order to assign text to ...
Posted in ActionScript, Adobe AIR, Flash, Flex, Technology | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
This post is slightly belated, but that's only because we've been super busy. The super part of the super busy is due to us opening a West coast office in Northern California. Jason Hanson and Seth Duffey just joined our forces to lead the new office. We're very, very happy ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Flex 3 has a great deep linking feature built right into the framework. I wasn't actually expecting that it would even work at all much less work well, but it works extraordinarily well. This blog post isn't about how to use the deep linking feature since the documentation is pretty ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
At The Morphic Group we build Flex and ActionScript applications. This keeps us from the terrors of browsers and the various ways they interpret standards or disregard standards entirely. However, we cannot (yet?) avoid having to interface with the browser and HTML and CSS in at least one important manner. ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
I came upon a challenge creating a custom ToggleButtonBar component. The challenge was to display dynamic text on each button while displaying button states (up, over, down, selected). This is not a problem when you have simple formatted text. You can assign and style the text via the label ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
I just wrote about the Flex 3 Cookbook written by Josh Noble and Todd Anderson. Well, Todd has been uber-busy writing because Adobe AIR: Create - Modify - Reuse also just hit the shelves. Todd wrote this book along with his co-authors Marc Leuchner and Matt Wright. This book is ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
The Flex 3 Cookbook published earlier this month to very positive reviews. I'm not surprised. The authors, Josh Noble (www.thefactoryfactory.com) and Todd Anderson (www.custardbelly.com) are friends of mine. I worked with them in the same office, and I wouldn't hesitate to say that they are two of the humblest but ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
I only just recently started using Firebug (www.getfirebug.com.) It seems it's a popular way to debug JavaScript and HTML in Firefox. I use Firefox as my preferred browser, but working with Flex and Flash I rarely have to debug HTML or JavaScript. However, I was recently working on a project ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Recently I was working on a project that due to a requirement had to be compiled in Flash CS3. Having spent the last few years exclusively using FlexBuilder I was shocked at the HORRIBLE AS3 editor and debugger in Flash CS3. I quickly tried to figure out how ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
If you're creating a custom AIR badge for a seamless install then you'll need to load the air.swf files from the Adobe Website (http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/browserapi/air.swf) and call methods on the .swf once it has loaded. This is clunky for a few reasons:
1. Loading the .swf in order to call methods requires ...
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