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I just got back from the Sydney Flash User Group that was held at the Rocketboots office at Kent street.
According to the program we were going to view: Cairngorm 2.2 framework with Flex 3 and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime - formerly known as Apollo). We’ll be building a small/simple application to demonstrate the use of the Cairngorm 2.2 framework with Flex 3 beta and AIR Beta.
Due to time constraints, we didn’t finish the AIR integration and we all managed to debug Chris’ cairngorm timer.
We also talked a little about Singletons. Here is the link I mentioned about Grant Skinners AS3 implementation.
After that we had a “conference/presentation” by Grant Straker, that showed how to build quick applications using Zoom Flex
It was interesting to see the admin interface actually be targeted to developers, and how you generate your objects and classes by using regular forms. It also spits out all the source code of the flex app. I will definitely give it a try.
Then the lucky winner of the Adobe Software package was Robert. Congratulations mate!
Looking forward to having more meetings. Looks like then next one will be in February and the guys from infomedia might be showing us some of their flex stuff.
Here is a 16 second video that I took while Grant was presenting ShadoCMS:
December 3rd, 2007
We have recently launched our company’s spanking new Flash website.
You can also create your own Mobile Video Blogging widget!
I’ve created my mobile video blog here (you can see the link at the top of my blog), using the free widget from the DDX Website.
What is a Mobile Video Blog Widget?
It’s a Flash Component that you can put on any web page.When you create the widget a unique email is generated for you and you can send videos with your mobile phone to that email. The server will automatically convert the videos to FLV and publish them on your server. It’s pretty cool! Give it a try here: http://www.ddx.com.au/#/widgets/mobile-video-blog/
December 3rd, 2007
I started using Flash at version 4, when I was working at W3.com.ar and I remember also having to fiddle with some Flash 3 banners. When Flash 5 came out and you could do some proper coding, it was all done inside the IDE. Then we discovered the include directive and were using Textpad with most of our code.
Then came SEPY and I got hooked straight-away. Just last year I transitioned to FlashDevelop and have been using that since. I convinced my fellow workmates and now we are all using it.
I knew there were other tools put there, but one that I really wanted to try was FDT. Check out there cool site and view the demos they have.
A couple of months back I won a license at Sydney’s Flash User Group (thanks Chris!) and I have started using it for tests. I currently haven’t fully switched yet, because I find FlashDevelop quite fast and very easy to use compared to FDT. Though FDT has on the fly syntax checking. It means I don’t have to press F7 each time before compiling.
Then talking about my PHP development environment. It was trusty old Textpad through-out all these years. Adding different syntax libraries, macros and all kind of clip extensions. But it was never an IDE. It was missing syntax checking and the famous “intellisense”
Now I have started to move towards Eclipse, and I’ve tried PHPEclipse and PDT. I had troubles with PDT but I didn’t have much time on my hands to see why it wasn’t working as expected. I will try to consolidate my both main languages (Flash and PHP) under one IDE.
My next step is to use them both on a production project. Then I will be able to assess if it’s worth switching from FlashDevelop.
It would be great to here what others are using for their own PHP and Flash development.
Please add a comment below.
Some extra resources:
http://www.blog.lessrain.com/?p=381
August 29th, 2007
I was having the following issue and I spent a lot of time figuring it out.
I had an Input Text and applied some formatting to it, using target.setTextFormat(format). But the format would only work if the textfield had some text in it.
I tried to “hack” around it and leave some text in it, then apply the textformat then remove the text. But when doing: target.text = “”; The formatting was also removed.
I’ve noticed that for “new text” that the user might input, you need to use: target.setNewTextFormat(format)
That worked like a charm, and all my input texts look like they’re supposed to.
I hope someone finds this useful.
July 31st, 2007
The project I am currently working on has a lot of design elements, and it has to be developed inside the Flash IDE. The crashes I used to get were usually when compiling. So everyone knows the drill, before CTRL + Enter, you HAVE to do CTRL + S.
But this time, I got a crash when pressing on the little lock icon (in the properties pane) used when resizing the selected asset.
Don’t you hate when this happens:
My system is Windows XP. Does this happen also on the Mac version?
I’m about to buy a new laptop and I would possibly convert to Mac (not just because of this issue). I would like to hear about anyone experiencing several crashes on Mac OSX.
June 6th, 2007
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