http://tomkordys.net/blog freelance flash/flex/air developer Fri, 05 Feb 2010 10:57:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like I mentioned in my previous post I decided to wrap up what I've learned working with AIR2.0 and share it with community. Air2 beta was released 2 days before I was told to research on a scenario of running a native application along with AIR app. There are a ... http://tomkordys.net/blog/2009/11/30/working-with-air2-0-beta-and-nativeprocess-walkthrough/ If you wanna start playing with new AIR 2.0 there are a couple things you need: 1. Runtime 2. Air 2.0 beta SDK (installed on top of Flex SDK) 3. New app.xml descriptor namespace which is xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/2.0beta" But if you want to launch a native app from air, they forgot to mention in the documentation ... http://tomkordys.net/blog/2009/11/18/air-2-0-beta-nativeprocess-issupported-gotcha/ Attending last LFPUG meetup got me thinking about all the latest Flash and Flex development, especially in the way in which this development is going. I think the community is becoming much more mature and this can be observed by the number of frameworks that have recently poped up. Everyone ... http://tomkordys.net/blog/2009/11/09/dependency-injection-frameworks-and-other-latest-as3-trends-robotlegs-dawn-parsley/ At last Flex London User Group meetup one of the guys presented FlexBug, great tool for flex debugging with runtime actionscript injection. It is an adaptation of FlexSpy Flexbug comes with an example on how to use it, which is really handy. To see what FlexSpy looks like in action ... http://tomkordys.net/blog/2009/10/04/flexbug-great-tool-for-flex-debugging/ There is a pre-Flash on the Beach pre-party burgers on Sun 6PM @ GBK in Brighton. More info here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2824261 http://tomkordys.net/blog/2009/09/18/going-to-flash-on-the-beach/ I discovered a bug in flash player which is quite hard to debug if you don't have a mac. It's got to do with mouseX values going crazy on macs. It occurs in Safari, Firefox and most likely on IE. MY issue was that i had parralax scrolling in place. ... http://tomkordys.net/blog/2009/09/17/flash-player-bug-content-disappearing-on-macs-when-mousex-used/ Last week I attendened 2 day course on Away3d which was presented by Away's 3d core developer himself, Rob Bateman. The course was organized by LFPUG (btw there is more training coming up, have a look yourself) and it was really worth the money. First day was about 3d basics, ... http://tomkordys.net/blog/2009/07/20/away3d-equalizer/ To those who didn't have a chance to go to LFPUG last night here is a quick recap. It was all about 3d if flash by the guys who developed Papervision 3d (if you don't know that yet:) First session was called "Papervision. Simplified" and was presented by Seb Lee Delisle. Seb ... http://tomkordys.net/blog/2009/05/01/26/ I recently got a new laptop and I decided to install Windows 7 on it. After installing Flex Builder I thought everything was ok until I needed to debug one of my projects. I got this annoying message: Waiting for Flash Player to connect to debugger. It was timing out ... http://tomkordys.net/blog/2009/03/08/windows-7-beta-flex-builder-and-debugging/ After completing a flex project build in Flex Builder I got so much into using FB's features that going back to FDT didn't sound to optimistic. I figured out there was no reason why I acutally had to do it. Going through the pain of getting Eclipse, FDT, setting core ... http://tomkordys.net/blog/2009/02/17/are-you-a-flash-developer-use-flex-builder/