There’s been a bit of traffic on the flashcoders mailing list today about how to create custom components extending the UIComponent class. Jesse Warden droppped a link to some really excellent step-by-step tutorials (click here for tutorials, click here for source files) which walk you through the entire process from start to finish. Not only [...]
A friend of mine, and fellow flasher, from the Pacific Northwest IM’d me yesterday about creating a custom cell renderer for a ComboBox. What he wanted to do was deliver a custom icon for each item based on the SCORM objective results returned from the LMS. After thinking about his need for a couple of [...]
One of the more useful features of the Eclipse platform is the organizational capabilities it gives you. In particular, Working Sets allow you to group your projects together in logical categories or sets. What’s really nice is that a project can belong to more that one Working Set which allows you enormous flexibility in how [...]
I just installed the 7.1 release of the ASDT Editor plugin for Eclipse and noticed a feature which is either new, or that I was unaware of previously. You can now auto generate getters / setters for all private properties in the same manner that the Eclipse Java Editor allows you to. In order [...]
Those who work in the eLearning field, know that Flash SCO (Shareable Content Object) to LMS (Learning Management System) communication is an ugly mess. The SCORM RTE specification requires JavaScript as the communication bridge between a SCO and and the LMS. JavaScript is asynchronous in nature which means that any time you make a request [...]
Editor templates are simply code templates which can be invoked by typing in a shortcut command (i.e. “singleton” or “class”) and hitting CTRL+ SPACE on your keyboard. The are some useful default templates which are part of the ASDT plugin editor, but I’ve found that everything really needs to be modified to taste and customized to reflect user specific attributes.
Finally blogging because it seems everyone else on the planet is….hope to have some ramblings on Flash and eLearning up soon!