Archive for 'Flash Platform'
Hotwire: Quick and dirty event wireups in AS3
Posted on23. Feb, 2010 by lukesh.
Recently, I was tasked with building a quick AS3 project outside of our normal Flex framework projects. It was refreshing to just write a plain and simple AS3 project outside of the team environment where I could explore a few things without impacting the team by breaking our current project standards. One thing I’ve been [...]
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ArrayCollections, WebORB deserialization, .NET generics
Posted on09. Oct, 2009 by lukesh.
The problem is that unless you refer to the class “MyChildType” somewhere in your project, the Flash runtime has no idea that the “MyChildType” exists. Typically, you’d refer to this class in a view or something, so this problem is very esoteric and you most likely won’t encounter it, but if you do, keep this in mind.
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Immutable Strings, Arrays, Lists, and dataProviders PSA
Posted on12. Jun, 2009 by lukesh.
First, click here to view a quick demo of the problem. (Source here). When the lists load, roll over one of the items labeled “something” and notice the hover behavior. The problem is, that these Lists are bound to and Array and an ArrayCollection of Strings (which are immutable in AS3). Likewise, if multiple entries [...]
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Rawr! FlexGrowl Component Available
Posted on04. Apr, 2009 by lukesh.
Want to growl in your Flex apps? Try this junk. FlexGrowl is a component that allows you to create growl-like notifications in your Flex apps
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HydraMVC 0.1.3 Released
Posted on01. Apr, 2009 by lukesh.
…And it seems to be the magic number for now. I’ve been using this version for a while and it seems stable and complete enough to actually use f’real. If you don’t know what it is, click here to read about it and get it. Besides all the obvious goals for HydraMVC (read about them [...]
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AdeptivMVC
Posted on03. Mar, 2009 by lukesh.
Basically, you know those times where if you have to trip over that creaky stair *one more time* you’re going to go totally ape and remodel the entire downstairs? That’s exactly what happened.
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Aurora Borealis in ActionScript
Posted on01. Dec, 2008 by lukesh.
This weekend I threw together an algo to generate Aurora for a holiday ecard. I was really happy with the outcome. You can see the card here.
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Very Important Limitations of Generated Flex Data Classes
Posted on24. Nov, 2008 by lukesh.
You will need to know this at some point if you are interacting with SOAP in Flex, I guarantee it. ISSUE #1: Types registered in SchemaTypeRegistry may overlap across different services. Description: You have a UserService and a RoleService. Methods for both services return an ArrayOfString. This type is generated by Flex when you import [...]
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In defense of AS3
Posted on16. Jul, 2008 by lukesh.
As someone who has worked with Flash since FutureSplash was acquired by Macromedia, and as someone with both a design / animation and programming background, I agree with Adobe’s decision to go with a more structured implementation of ActionScript in Flash with AS3. I believe it is a strategic move to position Flash as a [...]
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Mediator strategy in PureMVC
Posted on12. Jun, 2008 by lukesh.
If you aren’t using an MVC framework like Cairngorm, Model-Glue, Guasax, or PureMVC for your Flex development, you really should think about starting. Our adoption of PureMVC at andCulture has allowed us to structure our ideas around a concrete paradigm and move on to arguing about more important things. I’ve implemented PureMVC in both Flash [...]
