Swiz Autowire View

Swiz got a new feature which allows you to autowire views into any class which has been loaded in a BeanLoader. A target could be a controller class which wants to interact with a view. Normally you would say that the view dispatches events which are then handled by a controller to decouple them but there [...]

Swiz 0.6 Released

Chris just released a new version of Swiz with some really great additions and improvements. We now also own the domain swizframework.org which forwards to the Google code homepage.

This release makes Swiz faster, more flexible and even easier to use:

Support for mediating bubbled event
Added view attribute in Mediate tag
Autowire views with view attribute in Autowire tag
Ignoring [...]

EncryptedLocalStore File variable with getter/setter

The EncryptedLocalStore (ELS) is a decent place to persist user specific settings like for instance a username and a password. As the name already says the ELS content is stored encrypted using the Keychain of OS X and DPAPI on Windows with AES-CBC 128-bit encryption.

The code to store a File variable in ELS using a getter [...]

AIR HTML with “_blank” Links

I have played with the WebKit engine of AIR which is exposed to Flex with the HTML control.

You can set the content by specifying a http location or by setting the htmlText which should be HTML code as a String. Let’s play with the HTML so create a new Flex/AIR project in Flex Builder and use [...]

SOS Logging Target

A few days ago Powerflasher released a new version of their logging tool SOS. I have used it in the past but stopped using it because I switched to Mac. Since the new version also runs on OS X I gave the new version a try and it works nicely.

I have posted a little extension for [...]

Open Source and Flex

There were a lot of news and posts about Flex and open-source so I thought it would be nice to summarize it.

Grant Skinner has posted a wonderful summary about common source code licenses.

Matt Chotin asked for feedback on suggested projects related to Flex. Personally I would love to see an ORM framework like suggested by Christophe [...]