Category Archives: ActionScript

Log into Facebook with Adobe AIR (without leaving the desktop)

January 10, 2008 – 9:40 am
By Alastair | Also posted in AIR, Facebook, Flex | Comments (11)

Introducing ActionSnip

January 7, 2008 – 1:47 pm

My new year’s resolution is to organize my ActionScript snippets, so I made a website to do just that actionsnip.com.
I know yes another snippet site, but none of the others highlight ActionScript properly. And because I don’t only collect snippets but blog posts about ActionScript as well there’s a feature called scraps which lets you [...]

By Alastair | Also posted in ActionSnip, Flash, Flex, Shameless Self Promotion | Comments (14)

Two new ways to load data into Flash

December 4, 2007 – 11:15 pm

SWX Ruby is a port of SWX (originaly PHP), which claims to be “Ruby’s fastest library for exchanging data with Flash” I haven’t tried it because it doesn’t yet support Flash player 9 but I wouldn’t doubt it’s the fastest as many other methods aren’t too speedy (Although RubyAMF is much quicker lately).
as3yaml, you guessed [...]

By Alastair | Also posted in Flash, Flash Remoting, Flex, Ruby, Ruby on Rails | Comments (0)

Want a job working with Flex and Rails?

December 4, 2007 – 3:01 pm

Jobs that combine Flex and Rails don’t come down the pike too often. Even more rare is one from a start up with a lot of buzz like Blist.
Speaking of pikes the job is in Seattle so all you Northwest Flex/Railers send in your resume and the solution to Blist’s programming challenge.

Without using any built [...]

By Alastair | Also posted in Flex, Ruby, Ruby on Rails | Comments (0)

Evaluating Flex Application Frameworks

November 9, 2007 – 10:34 am

If you can’t decide between Cairngorm or PureMVC, Luke Bayes and Ali Mills have a presentation up that walks through the pros and cons of ten different frameworks:

Slide (not yet released)
ARP (I read somewhere that v3 was going to be Rails like in it’s ease of use ARP development seems to have stalled now that [...]

By Alastair | Also posted in Flex | Comments (2)

Flex Image Component: Loading, Resizing, Aligning, and Smoothing

November 2, 2007 – 11:04 am

Here’s the brief load an external image into Flex, resize it to fit in a container (but don’t make it bigger than the original), center it in the container, and smooth the image to get rid of any aliasing. Sounds like a simple job, slap down a VBox, set vertical and horizontal alignment, add an [...]

By Alastair | Also posted in Flex | Comments (13)

Sorting Images with a Flex Tile Component

August 24, 2007 – 12:24 pm

This is a test for an image manager component that I’m building. The final version will have an upload feature, and when you sort the images they’ll hook up with their model in Rails using acts_as_list to save the sorting in the database. Right click the swf below to view source.

I’ve built something similar in [...]

By Alastair | Also posted in Flash, Flex, RIA, Ruby on Rails | Comments (4)

Scripting bezier movement with Tweener

August 9, 2007 – 12:38 pm

I downloaded the latest release of Tweener and found that there’s a new set of parameters for creating bezier curve animations.

This example requires Flash player 9 or higher.

var so = new SWFObject(”http://blog.vixiom.com/uploads/bezierMaker_as3.swf”, “tweener_swf”, “500″, “400″, “9″, “#FFFFFF”);
so.write(”tweener_swf”);

By Alastair | Also posted in Flash, Flex | Comments (2)

Lee Brimelow on Taking Flash to the Desktop

August 3, 2007 – 8:52 am

This was my favorite presentation of the LA stop of the Adobe AIR bus tour. Lee is very engaging and shows off a bunch of AIR apps built with Flash. If you have a Flash, rather than Flex, background Lee’s presentation will show that you’re invited to the AIR party too – don’t be shy [...]

By Alastair | Also posted in AIR, Flash, RIA | Comments (0)

Everybody’s chatting about Flex

August 2, 2007 – 10:11 am

…make that chatting on Flex. All Flex front-ends but a multitude of approaches to flinging the messages about on the back-side.

Ted (on Flex) has his AIRchat running on Python Twisted.
Derek Wischusen has his messages moving atop Rails, Apache ActiveMQ, ActiveMessaging, and STOMP (post 1, post 2)
Alex McCaw is the creator of Juggernaut which can use [...]

By Alastair | Also posted in AIR, Flex, RIA, Ruby on Rails | Comments (1)