For all of you in the US of A and in a major city, I recommend you check out the onAir tour that is going around: http://onair.adobe.com/
It will be a night full of Apollo apps and demos and free booze and food. I will be there for sure as I am very […]
Getting your library assets out of a loaded swf in AS3 is a bitch. I created a little helper class to retrieve a symbol from a loaded swf and return it back in movie clip form. It’s only a few lines of code, but it would be a few lines of code that […]
If assets are on the root timeline; they may or may not have animation. Like:
If you are applying it directly to a symbol skin using the @Embed directive. Like: prevYearUpSkin=”@Embed(source=’/images/calButton.png’)”
To use the [Embed] for AS 3, you must build your project in Flex Builder. Also, you must do it as an Action […]
There is just a few things to remember when adding elements to a Flex application using AS 3.
Have an xml namespace to the class you are trying to use to add elements to the Flex app. Like: xmlns:pacyga=”com.pacyga.*”
Have a custom tag:
In your AS 3 class have it extend Application
You can now […]
There has been a lot of questions flying around on my local Flash/Flex mailing list about loading assets into Flash 9 movies. And rightfully so, as it can be a confusing and pain in the ass process if you are unfamiliar with the concept. And I will be honest with you, I am […]
If you ever wanted to keep a particular layout or order of other Flex or UI components; a template component may be handy. The example project is a basic example of this. By using arrays I am looping through and adding components to an H or V box. I may put up […]
As my last post stated I am learning about the Cairngorm Framework. I have read up on the article on Adobe Labs and I have the WROX book that has a chapter or two on it as well. So I thought I would cook up a simple example that really doesn’t do much […]
MVC has always been a popular architecture in RIAs for Flash development. Now with the advent of Flex 2 and AS 3; a pair of developers brought over an ideology borrowed from J2EE to Flex 2 and presented the community with the Cairngorm framework. Similar to the MVC design pattern, the Cairngorm framework […]