TOKI WOKI. 

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.

All of this is made in Flex+AIR. The visual iden­tity was made by Weecast ; thanks for the PNGs, folks!

By the way, some parts of it are actu­ally Open­Source, includ­ing:

• Mis­cel­la­neous AIR util­i­ties
• The infa­mous Gra­di­ent­La­bel (for Flex)
• Dynam.ize and BaseOb­ject, for work­ing with syn­chro­nous SQLite databases

If you don’t know Weecast yet I highly rec­om­mend you go visit their site, grab an account and the player, enjoy free videos, and then buy some! Now if you don’t under­stand French… Well, learn it!

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.