Subbu

I just found a Adobe Flex profile in MySpace and it invites PHP developers, Ruby developers, .NET developers, Flash developers, Java developers, ColdFusion developers to make friendship.

Its exposing its capability for video and audio too...

Its fun reading the page.

Subbu ;)

It would be very useful if we are able to type the Arrays as we do in Java.

Here is the solution:

http://www.dannypatterson.com/Resources/Blog/EntryDetail.cfm?id=98

You can basically add the following metadata tag to have a type-safe Array:

[ArrayElementType("Number")]
public var numlist:Array;

Quite useful! Is it not?

Adobe Labs has released the APIs for YouTube, Flickr, Maapr, Odeo and libraries for parsing/using RSS/Atom feeds.

This allows developers to create some quite useful applications with these APIs in much more faster and efficient way.

I was writing one API for Flickr for myself, but stopped working on that, since I just got these robust APIs, to help me concentrate on my application features, rather than working on these.

Thanks Labs.

Its exciting and great news that Adobe made Flex 2.0 as open source. This will definitely help the industry's most advance software to reach high. We can expect more growth and development in future.

It is available under Mozilla Public License (MPL).

Its a very good move...

I found a useful tool for Flex Builder similar to Eclipse's Java Development Tool JDT. A very useful plugin and I started using it.

It reminds me of the ToDos and FixMe comments I mark during development. Pretty cool plugin.

I just got a good document for coding in ActionScript and Flex.

Hopefully, I need make sure myself to follow these guidelines... ;)

Click here to download...

Happy coding..!

I have decided to use 'Number' type over 'int' for my code.

Do you want to know why?

Please read what Kuwamoto and Grant Skinner says.

When extending Flex's built-in components, you might need to use 'mx_internal' namespace, to call the methods in the super class which are declared with 'mx_internal' namespace.

There are two ways to do this.

1. Import mx.core.mx_intertnal class and add 'use namespace mx_internal;' script just below your 'import' statements.
2. Otherwise, you can explicitly call the method by prefixing 'mx_internal::' before the method.

Happy coding!

I was wondering how to assign a default style to my custom style property while developing a custom component. After some search in the Flex Help, I found this solution:

private static var classConstructed:Boolean = classConstruct();

private static function classConstruct():Boolean
{
if (!StyleManager.getStyleDeclaration("titleBackgroundSkin"))
{
// If there is no CSS definition for StyledRectangle,
// then create one and set the default value.
var newStyleDeclaration:CSSStyleDeclaration = new CSSStyleDeclaration();
newStyleDeclaration.setStyle("titleBackgroundSkin", mx.skins.halo.TitleBackground);
StyleManager.setStyleDeclaration("Chat", newStyleDeclaration, true);
}
return true;
}

This might result '1000: Ambiguous reference to setStyle' error, if you are using mx_internal namespace to call the methods declared with 'mx_internal' namespace. To solve that, try calling the method, by explicitly prefixing 'mx_internal::' before the method. Refer my previous post for more information.

Found some good nice desktop wallpapers on Flickr for Flash, Flex and AIR. Click here to visit and download.

Vector versions are available here, for you to make your own.