Here’s some personal history- this probably colors my opinion a great deal. I first started messing around with “Flash” using Macromedia Flash 4 producing really awful animations and got into it full swing with version 5. With the advent of ActionScript as a language, I began working on lots of interactive materials and a bunch …
The obvious reason being that Flash is the overarching platform with many tools, IDEs, runtimes, et cetera and Flex is a framework used to produce Flash content. Flex Builder has always produced Flash (NOT FLEX) and I’ve encountered many people who just never could grasp this fact. This will help clarify things for so many …
After having deployed many AIR apps with self-signed certificates over the past year or so, when I finally got one from a certificate authority I was quite happy to update my apps with it. Not so fast! You can’t update an AIR app that has been signed with a different certificate than a previously installed …
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A FlexEvent.IDLE event will dispatch every 100 milliseconds when there has been no keyboard or mouse activity for 1 second. So, if you want to have some other method fire off after the user is inactive for 5 minutes (for example), you would set it up as detailed below. Be sure to import the following …
I took some time today to update the VidLoop AIR application. The current version is 1.2.2. New features include a randomize function and the integration of the AIR Update Framework. I’ve also fixed a few small bugs. A note of importance here… I really should have integrated the update framework before my initial public build. …
Last week, I was approached by someone asking if we could build a small application that would run a series of videos in a continual loop. I told him it would be pretty simple to do this and that it would only be an afternoon’s work in AIR. So, that evening, I was able to …
I’ve never found the need to have HTML links in Flex behave (and look) like their true HTML counterparts, but a student recently asked how she could get HTML links defined in a Text control to behave like regular HTML links. After digging around, I found a lot of references to this problem but the …
I’m taking a moment to highlight the Visual Media Center at the University of Denver and the relatively new weblog maintained by its Director, Leslie Trumble. The VMC works very closely with those of us on the DU VAGA development team and most of the feedback we receive about the application originates with users from …
A lot of desktop apps have a splash screen that brands the application while it is loading or performing other processes in the background. Adobe AIR does not have a direct mechanism for this- but the feature can be easily achieved with some nice windowing action. There are a number of steps to take when …
I have this problem with Flex Builder 3. If I have “Build Automatically” checked under “Project”, my workspace gets stuck in this “Building Workspace” limbo and can never launch any projects for testing unless I toggle this setting back off. I’ve had the feature disabled for a few months now, but with the release of …
This one threw me for a loop. So I’ve been using the flash.display.NativeWindow class to create new windows in AIR (via Flex) since the beta releases. Historically, this has been a pain when you want to add MXML components to the native window as addChild() does not work with the NativeWindow class unless that child …
I’m used to setting the ObjectEncoding to AMF0 when working with Flash Media Server 2, but haven’t realized till now that I also am required to do this when communicating with Coldfusion 8 through remoting: import flash.net.NetConnection; import flash.net.ObjectEncoding; NetConnection.defaultObjectEncoding = flash.net.ObjectEncoding.AMF0; The error “Unknown object type tag (17)” was being generated by CF8 as …