by John C. Bland II | Aug 9, 2011 | Mobile
I’m working on a simple Flex mobile app to test out the viability of it as a cross-platform mobile development environment/sdk. This app is a simple master/detail view-based application [based on s:ViewNavigatorApplication]: show a list of items, select an item, see details. That’s it. On the details view there was an issue with displaying the item content so I just used HTML [since that’s what the source data is on occasions]. This was easy enough, after a lil’ googling, with the StageWebView but there were some gotchas.
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by John C. Bland II | Apr 29, 2010 | Flex, Speaking Engagements
Last night I spoke at the AZFPUG and AZCFUG Flex 4 Release party. I am thoroughly happy I did!
What fun it is talking about something you’re passionate about and Flex 4 is definitely something I thoroughly enjoy working in and talking about. With that said, most of what I talked about was pulled directly from Flex 4 in Action. I had my fair share of plugs for the book throughout the meeting. 😉 Hey…it is a great book, biased or not.
Technically something always happens and, according to @nathanstrutz, I didn’t have enough dongles. 😉 I was missing my display connector(s) but thankfully @simpulton saved the day by bringing a couple and one worked. Big props to Ron Haberle for buying one. It wasn’t the right one but the effort must be awarded some kudos.
One example failed to work. It was about rotating an image around the center and the rotate not affecting the layout. Well…I ran the same exact code today…worked! BOGUS! To demonstrate, I put the code online for all to see how it works (view source is included). For simplicity, here is the mxml for the swf:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="https://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html">
<s:layout>
<s:VerticalLayout paddingLeft="100" paddingTop="100" />
</s:layout>
<fx:Declarations>
<s:Rotate id="effect" target="{image}" angleBy="45"
applyChangesPostLayout="true" autoCenterTransform="true" />
</fx:Declarations>
<s:BitmapImage id="image" source="@Embed('images/flex.jpg')" />
<s:Button id="mybutton" label="Click Me!" click="effect.play()" />
</s:Application> |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="https://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009"
xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" viewSourceURL="srcview/index.html">
<s:layout>
<s:VerticalLayout paddingLeft="100" paddingTop="100" />
</s:layout>
<fx:Declarations>
<s:Rotate id="effect" target="{image}" angleBy="45"
applyChangesPostLayout="true" autoCenterTransform="true" />
</fx:Declarations>
<s:BitmapImage id="image" source="@Embed('images/flex.jpg')" />
<s:Button id="mybutton" label="Click Me!" click="effect.play()" />
</s:Application>
Other than that, everything was pretty smooth and I filled up 2 hours showing off Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 goodies. What’s crazy is I had even MORE to talk about. Flex 4 is a beefy upgrade and solves so many problems. It shines a light on the fact that more online tutorials, videos, etc are needed. Ahem…maybe I’ll get some done soon. 🙂
#azfpug and #azcfug, thanks for having me. Catching up with everyone was a true treat. Keep rockin’ guys and keep @simpulton out of the weight room. That dude is lookin’ buff!!! lol
UPDATE
Here are some tweets about the preso:
@lavonwoods – here
@simpulton – here
@bwohl – here and here
@nathanstrutz – here
@alanrother – here
by John C. Bland II | Mar 29, 2009 | Flex, Software
If you have ever used FlashDevelop (https://www.flashdevelop.org; windows only), you are familiar with the GREAT code completion it provides. FB is lacking terribly, in comparison. So…let’s vote to build it up.
https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-18507
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by John C. Bland II | Mar 28, 2009 | ColdFusion, Flex, Writing
Yesterday I was pinged on IM by John Farrar about an issue he was having connecting Flex to ColdFusion on his new system. He’d done this many times before but hit a bump so we jumped on Adobe Connect and looked into it.
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