gotoandlearn.com - Free video tutorials by Lee Brimelow on the F A Faster Flex 3 SDK (Deitte.com) At Brightcove I've spent some time creating faster Flex 3 SDKs by merging some changes from the Flex 4 SDK. It's not a lot of changes, but it makes a fairly significant improvement in compilation speeds in Flex Builder. I find for small changes in a large project, there's about a 20%25% speedup, but this varies greatly depending on what you're doing. I'll give some performance numbers below and explain exactly what changed, but first I'll show you how you can use these changes yourself. Using the Changes Here are the files you'll need, with one zip file for Flex 3.0, Flex 3.1, and Flex 3.2: fast-3.0.zipfast-3.1.zipfast-3.2.zip Inside of the zip files you'll find jars that should overwrite existing files in FLEX_SDK/lib, where FLEX_SDK is the location of the Flex SDK you are using. There's another zip file that you can try out, which contains some more changes from Flex 4. fast-experimental-3.0.zip Performance Numbers Why I Did This More on the Changes
How to Load and Interact with an External SWF File in AS3 and Flash One of the most versatile features of Flash is the ability to import swf files into a "containing" Flash movie and the ability for the "containing movie" to interact with the imported swf. We have addressed various aspects of this issue with our previous tutorials, External Clips in Flash CS3, Loading External SWF Files for a Dynamic Presentation, and Loading and Unloading SWF's with 'stage' References in AS3. In the simple example shown below, the external swf (built from the file ext.fla included for download) consists of a 400 by 200 movie that has a global variable called total and a public function called updateBackAndTotal, which takes a single color parameter as an argument. A call to updateBackAndTotal(clr) draws a rectangle with color clr to fill the stage of the external swf and adds as text the value of the total variable. The file ext.swf on its own is shown first. Download Download the two fla files for this tutorial in the following compressed folder. ExternalSWF.zip
XML-RPC XML-RPC is a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.[1] "XML-RPC" also refers generically to the use of XML for remote procedure call, independently of the specific protocol. This article is about the protocol named "XML-RPC". History[edit] The generic use of XML for remote procedure call (RPC) was patented by Phillip Merrick, Stewart Allen, and Joseph Lapp in April 2006, claiming benefit to a provisional application filed in March 1998. Usage[edit] XML-RPC works by sending a HTTP request to a server implementing the protocol. Identification of clients for authorization purposes can be achieved using popular HTTP security methods. In comparison to REST, where resource representations (documents) are transferred, XML-RPC is designed to call methods. JSON-RPC is similar to XML-RPC. Data types[edit] Common datatypes are converted into their XML equivalents with example values shown below: Examples[edit] <? <? <? Criticism[edit]
Ace of Spades HQ Adobe CS5 - Everything about Adobe Creative Suite 5 Locale data for AS3 3D Card Flips with Tweens in Flash CS4 and Flash CS3 Flash Player 10 supports native 3D methods in ActionScript 3 so flipping images with perspective distortion is much easier in Flash CS4 than in Flash CS3. It has its challenges, though. One of them is the problem of blurring of 3D objects when those 3D methods are used. Download Download all files corresponding to this tutorial: tweenflip.zip All the source files in the package are well-commented. The Timeline Code - Customizing an Instance of TweenFlipCS4 The static text on the stage was created at authoring time. Here is the Timeline code in flip_cs4.fla followed by explanations. import fl.transitions.easing import flashandmath.as3.TweenFlipCS4; var card1:TweenFlipCS4; var card2:TweenFlipCS4; card1=new TweenFlipCS4("bkimage.jpg","bkcard.jpg","horizontal"); this.addChild(card1); card2=new TweenFlipCS4("deimage.jpg","decard.jpg"); this.addChild(card2); setCardsPosAndProps(); function setCardsPosAndProps():void { card1.x=25; card1.y=85; card2.x=330; card2.y=85; card1.setFunc(Back.easeOut);
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Kyle’s Pile » Parsing Google Calendar XML in Flash CS3 AS3 Honestly, when I first attempted to parse and access Google Calendar XML from flash I had a lot of trouble with it. I spent a lot of hours being frustrated by XML namespaces (it was the first time I’d had to use them) and consequently had to move to the forums at actionscript.org . I was helped by a guy with the alias “wvxvw” (which is a nice palendrome, lol) so I’d like to extend credit to him for giving me a nudge in the right direction. Anyway, lets get on to the code. First things first you need a URLLoader object to load Google Calendar’s xml. var xmlReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest(xmlURL); var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(xmlReq); xmlLoader.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, onIOError); xmlLoader.addEventListener(SecurityErrorEvent.SECURITY_ERROR, onSecurityError); xmlLoader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, xmlGCALLoaded); var xmlLoader:URLLoader = new URLLoader(new URLRequest(xmlURL)); Either way is fine, obviously. var author:String = xmlData.ns::author; ShareThis
Edge: June 2009 - A beginner's guide to the Mate framework by Brian Rinaldi For the longest time, Cairngorm seemed to be the only viable lightweight Flex framework. Lately some new Flex frameworks have been growing in popularity. One of the newer frameworks that is gaining ground among bloggers and other Flex developers is Mate. Created by Nahuel Foronda and Laura Arguello of AsFusion, Mate (pronounced mah-teh) is a tag-based, event-driven framework that focuses on giving developers maximum flexibility. In general, Mate is easy to learn. Like other frameworks, Mate addresses the common architectural concerns in Flex such as event handling, data binding, and asynchronous processing. Getting started The sample application I use in this article is the Upcoming.org API. For the back end of this application, I use Adobe ColdFusion. You can download the code for the sample application via Subversion at Admiring the view Creating events about upcoming events The EventMap and mapping events Confronting your Manager
RedmineWikiFormatting Links¶ Redmine links¶ Redmine allows hyperlinking between resources (issues, changesets, wiki pages...) from anywhere text formatting is used. Link to an issue: #124 (displays #124, link is striked-through if the issue is closed) Link to an issue note: #124-6, or #124!#note-6 Link to a changeset: r758 (displays r758) Link to a changeset with a non-numeric hash: commit:c6f4d0fd (displays c6f4d0fd). Wiki links: [[Guide]] displays a link to the page named 'Guide': Guide [[Guide|User manual]] displays a link to the same page but with different text: User manual [[Guide#User-guide|User guide]] displays a link to the header on the same page with different text: User guide You can also link to pages of another project's wiki (using the project identifier): [[sandbox:some page]] displays a link to the page named 'Some page' of the Sandbox wiki [[sandbox:]] displays a link to the Sandbox wiki main page Wiki links are displayed in red if the page doesn't exist yet, eg: Nonexistent page. Escaping: Acronym¶