Join us for this flexcamp in Singapore.
The participation at the meeting will be totally free.
The meeting will take place in Singapore at the AV8 conference room.
Agenda:
- A practical migration sample from AS2 to AS3
- Flex and Flash CS 3
- What's in Flex Builder 3
- Getting started with Flex and AIR
- Resources and references
News.Flash: Aral Balkan on Application Development & Architecture for the Flash Platform.
3dsense Media School people have brought in Aral Balkan to Singapore. He will be giving us a speech coming Sunday. Look at http://pixelreloaded.com/ for more details. Even if you haven't registered for the event, do come over. On the spot registration will be available, and I will also be there :)
Thanks to 3dsense guys, I met with Aral Balkan and we talked a lot. It was great talking to Aral and I look forward to talk more. We both were given a chance to know about the activities of 3dsense Media School. They are passion driven people and really addicted to their field. Seeing the 3D animation of their students tempts me to jump back to 3D animation ;)
I'm happy that they will also be focusing on flash, and will be bringing in more international flash experts like Aral to speak to us.
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Bug.Flex 2: Background becomes black when defining depthColors style for Tree Component.
It used to work fine before (in Flex 2.0). Now with Flex 2.0.1, it renders as shown below when we define depthColors attribute for Tree Component
If I find any workaround I will update this post. If you know a workaround please post it as a comment
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Monday, January 01, 2007
Tools.Flex 2: Enabling Run Mode Trace in Flex Builder 2.
As you know trace messages are shown only in Debug Mode in Flex Builder. You can follow the steps shown below to see the trace output in Flex Builder all the time.
Open Window > Preferences... menu
Select General > Editors > File Associations in the Tree
Add *.swf as the New File Type
Select the newly added *.swf file type and Add "Internal Web Browser" as the Associated Editor
Download the TracerV2.swf from this site. Read this blog entry for more info.
Using File > Open File... open TracerV2.swf
Configure the TracerV2.swf and follow the steps as shown
Move this TracerV2.swf for your convenience
Now you should see the trace output from any swf played through Debug Player as shown below
Thanks to Veejay who made me think of making Tracer panel more usable.
Tools.Flex 2: Trace from anywhere, a Flex based Tracer Panel.
Here is an Flex application that generates mm.cfg according to your OS (XP, Vista, Mac)and shows the standard trace() outputs in real time (well! there is a slight delay). I love to replicate the features of the IDE using Flash itself. It all started with my flash 6 reference panel made with flash 6
Utilizing the available application space effectively is one of the important things we need to consider when designing an user interface. Olden search interfaces had two parts text input field and a search button. Then the "search"/"find"/"go" text is replaced with a lens icon. Now a days this lens icon is embedded inside the input text itself.
If you want to do the same with Flex, here is a way.
We can assign the lens image as the background image and properly offset it by adjusting transparent area of the image. This technique can work only with a fixed width text field.
If you need your search field to be expandable place the TextInput inside a Canvas and place an Image on top.
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Friday, December 22, 2006
Tips.Flex 2: Adding an icon to all items in the List Component.
List component does not have a default icon. Easy way to add one is to add a Icon function which is very similar to the one we use with Flash v2 components. Only difference is instead of string we need to return a class reference to the image
[Embed (source = 'res/image_link.png')]
[Bindable]
public var image_ico : Class;
private function ImageLabelFunction(item:Object):Class{
return image_ico;
}
Now we can point the iconFunction attribute to this function as shown below
Here is a Flex 2 application which helps to quickly refer to MXML tags and and its attributes. I have plans to integrate it with the Flex 2 SDK help files and make it an Apollo application. I will improve it further and make it available here as online service
I'm making a XML Editor which can help playing around with E4X and manipulate the XML. Which will be hosted as an online service here and will also be available as a Apollo application later.
Here is the alpha version of it. I welcome feature requests and suggestions, kindly post them as comments to this post. The sample XML displayed will give you a clue of what's coming next :)
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