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 a segmentation fault. Looking at the java version that comes with...

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 tags in UTF-8, UTF-16, and ISO-8859-1 formats and supports ID3 versions 1.0, 2.3, and 2.4. Only tags that contain text data are supported, such as...

This news announcement sparks a lot of questions in my mind. YouTube moves to the small screen First off its a little confusing because it says, Users who subscribe to Verizon’s Vcast service will be able to view content on the YouTube website via their mobiles. and then states this, The new deal will mean that VCast users, who pay $15 a month to watch and download video to their mobile, will have access to a limited number of approved...

In the days of Flex 2 beta there were some mx.automation.* classes that was the start of integrating Flex 2 with Mercury Quick Test Professional (QTP). These classes where pulled out of the Flex 2 release. At MAX I attended Alistair McLeod‘s presentation on “Increasing Efficiency and Quality with Flex Automation” and found out that the mx.automation.* classes will make it into Flex 2.0.1. A good resource on this subject is a...

You can close a project in Eclipse which keeps a reference to the project but does not load the project. This keeps the Flex Builder memory usage and build times down a little if you are working in a lot of projects at one time. From the Flex Builder help docs: Closing and opening projects To save memory and improve build time without deleting a project, you can close it. When you close a project, you collapse the project and its resources...

The ability to repeat an image across the X or Y axis is not straight forward in Flex/Flash.is not built into the Flex Framework. This Flex component extends SWFLoader and provides two properties “repeatX” and “repeatY”, which both control which axis to repeat the image is repeated on. The underlying code uses the BitmapFill class (thx to Alex for the tip) to draw the bitmap data onto a Sprite that fills up the...