To bad there is not a Flash Player 9 for Linux PowerPC distros or I would be coding Flex right now. So I am writing this post on my Playstation 3 using Yellow Dog linux 5.0 (the free version was just released today) as the “Other OS” on the box. The installation process was not [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
To promote the newly released Flex Cookbook I am posting here with the title of my lastest Flex Cookbook post. You can find the solution to below question by clicking on the text itself: How do you create a instance of a component at runtime with only the class name? what about when the class [...]
I have updated the Cairngorm Store multiple backend example. Along with the updated source code I have deploy a live running example. The 4 backends it supports now is ColdFusion Remoting AMF3, AMFPHP AMF0 using the RemoteObjectAMF0 class, AMFPHP 1.9 AMF3, and ColdFusion WebServices. See it live here! Get the source here! To change the [...]
The big news of the day is the Adobe Photoshop CS3 beta release on http://labs.adobe.com. There was also two other updates on labs that are still quite important for Adobe’s engagement platform. Spry is up to prerelease 1.4 and a new addition of JSEclipse. JSEclipse is a new plugin for the Eclipse environment that helps [...]
I have created a very basic Flex 2 RolloverImage component that allows you to define the up, over, and down images through CSS. Here is the guts of how to use the class: PLAIN TEXT XML: <mx:Style> .firstRollover { upSkin: Embed(source="/assets/arrowGreenUp.png"); overSkin: Embed(source="/assets/arrowBlueUp.png"); downSkin: Embed(source="/assets/arrowBlueDown.png"); } </mx:Style> [...]
Note: Just found about about the Flickr deal, it got moved to http://api.flickr.com/crossdomain.xml I must have missed Flickr shutting down their crossdomain.xml, here is a post by Chris Shiflett. I found the issue when looking at some old Flex Flickr mashup I wrote a while back and realized it was coming back with a security [...]
Patrick Mineault has created an alpha update of AMFPHP that now supports AMF3. He is looking for people to test it out. To help with this I have created two simple examples that I have running live on a PHP4/Apache server, as well as have tested on a PHP5/Windows box. Basic Example Return Array of [...]
UPDATE: see comments, the skin class works with any UIComponent and checks for many exceptions of different backgroundImage style values. Note backgroundImage values of embedded images only work, embedded SWF's with symbol names throws an error. I created a RepeatingImage component last month that works nicely for applying repeating images any where in your Flex [...]
I downloaded the latest SDK of Flex to try out coding Flex in Ubuntu (6.06). Here are the basic steps to try it out: Download Flex 2 SDK for linux Extract package to a directory (/home/renaun/Desktop/flexsdk/) Create simple mxml file called helloworld.mxml Run the following command: >/home/renaun/Desktop/flexsdk/bin/mxmlc -o helloworld.swf helloworld.mxml At this point I got [...]
There was a question on the FlashMedia mailing list about how to get id3 info from a NetStream with AS3 code. It is actually just like AS2 with some quirks to watch out for. The first is the supported ID3 tags: About supported versions of ID3 tags Flash Media Server supports playback of ID3 text [...]
