I’m not exactly sure why, but MXML kind of gives me a sickly sweet feeling. You know, the feeling you get from watching something that’s terrible, but beautiful (i.e. boxing). I really dig being able to lay out simple forms with a WYSIWYG editor, but I haven’t found too many cases where I can slide [...]
Being awake and trawling the web at 3 AM sometimes means you get an early jump on tomorrow’s big announcements. Here’s a snapshot of the Photoshop Express uploader. Great workflow with a sophisticated and understated UI. I dig it, MUCHO.
Looks like they will be using a tiered model with a free basic version and a [...]
A few lessons learned while serializing custom classes.
Compiler metadata tags only get you part of the way. Metadata alone is perfectly suitable when you’re not serializing classes with members that contain complex datatypes where those complex types have private members.
If there are private members in your complex data types then you’ll need to implement [...]
I haven’t been super plugged into the blogosphere lately so I’m not sure if anyone’s done this or not, but here’s a look at what metadata is contained in the onMetaData callback of an mpeg4 video playing inside of the Adobe Flash Player “Moviestar” beta.
The mp4 file was transcoded using ffmpeg on the mac.
It kicks [...]
After banging my head against a brick wall for a bit, I finally realized that when embedding assets in ActionScript3 files the path to the embedded asset is relative to the location of the .as file in which the embed statement is placed and not relative to my MXML or AS application entry point. If [...]
In case you’re wondering where Flex Builder installs the Flex framework .as source files here’s a snapshot:
And Here’s a path to copy and paste (based on the moxie beta):
/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in/sdks/moxie/frameworks/projects/framework/src