This post is a techy one, so if you don't write AIR apps or if you think this wouldn't be enough to show off during coffee break I recommend something funnier. › Continue reading...
Hey! I'm having a survey, wanna fill it?
During the last couple of months I've been working on a free AIR app for a French community-based site called Weecast. Its purpose is to allow users to submit and/or buy screencasts about your favorite apps and languages (mostly Adobe's and Microsoft's, but also 3D ones', OS's and more).
Introducing the Weecast Player!
The app allows you to browse your videos, watch them (4 view modes), search for more, drop comments and stars... I think that's called an RIA, right? There's also an offline mode, so you can access all your stuff anytime. › Continue reading...
I was talking about it, here it is!
This class will come in handy every time you work with synchronous SQLite databases in an AIR project. It's a real-world implementation of the Dynam.ize utility I presented earlier... I will show you an example of how to work with it, with simple sub-classes. Let's go! › Continue reading...
If you've ever wondered whether it's possible to apply a gradient on a Flex Label, well it is ; but that's not very straight forward... As I'm working on a app that requires this kind of glitter I decided to try and see what could be done.
I started with a basic ActionScript project (no Flex involved) and came up with this. Quite functional, could probably be optimized but my goal was actually a Flex component and I knew that was technically feasible. I then simply extended Flex's Label class and basically copied/pasted the logic into it. Just had to figure out which event to listen to and I was good to go...
Here's a demo app for your playing pleasure.
You may notice that in this example I embed the font so it looks nicer, but this is not mandatory...
All this is opensource (class+project) and you can grab it at my brand new Google Code dump: as3-bits. Help yourself.
As always, feedback welcome.
If I don't post this track now it'll be sitting in my "work-in-progress" folder for too long. Can't really decide what it's worth...
