Updating to AIR 2.0 Barriers

Now that Adobe 2.0 is released it’s time to update some older apps to use the new APIs.
The process to update seems kind of complicated and definitely worth a blog post. In my special case I am upgrading from an self signed 1.5.2 app to a self signed 2.0 app.

Since 1.5.3 the publisherID works differently [...]

June 18th, 2010 | Category: AIR, Flex | 2 comments

Swiz Yahoo Finance Metadata Processor

Swiz 1.0 alpha introduced a very cool new feature which lets you extend Swiz be creating custom metadata processors.
This means that if you want to add a metadata like [MyCustomMetadata] you can now do so and Swiz offers you a very easy way to implement it.
For the Swiz 360 Flex demo app I have build [...]

March 11th, 2010 | Category: ActionScript, Flex, Swiz | One comment

Running Project Sprouts

A few weeks ago I attended the SanFlashCisco usergroup meeting which was really great. After the meeting we moved to the Mars bar where I got to know Luke Bayes who founded Project Sprouts. Project Sprouts is a Ruby based open-source, cross-platform project generation and configuration tool for ActionScript 2, ActionScript 3, Adobe AIR and [...]

March 10th, 2010 | Category: ActionScript, Agile, Flex | 3 comments

Powerful Cancelable Events

When you dispatch events I bet that most Flash/Flex devs don’t take advantage of the fact that dispatchEvent returns a Boolean value indicating wether or not the event has been canceled. Normally your code looks similar to this:

var event:MyEvent = new MyEvent(MyEvent.FOO);
dispatchEvent(event)

If you want to let something only happen if the event wasn’t canceled it [...]

January 26th, 2010 | Category: ActionScript, Flex | Leave a comment

Flex 4 main class interface errors

I ended up a few times with these kind of errors while migrating to newer Flex 4 builds:

Description Resource Path Location Type
1044: Interface method invalidateParentSizeAndDisplayList in namespace mx.managers:ISystemManager not implemented by class _Main_mx_managers_SystemManager. example-project line 23 Flex Problem

Description Resource Path Location Type
1144: Interface method callInContext in namespace mx.core:IFlexModuleFactory is implemented with an incompatible signature in class _Main_mx_managers_SystemManager. example-project line 23 Flex Problem

The location/resource for these errors is the main MXML [...]

January 14th, 2010 | Category: Flex | 2 comments

Migrate Flex 4 Beta 2 to Latest Nightly Builds

I have a project based on Flex 4 Beta 2 and now I wanted to migrate to the latest nightly build since there were many important fixes.
Things have changed so here what I did to get my project up and running again:

Halo is now mx

The namespace for halo (Flex 3) components changed from xmlns:mx=”library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo” to xmlns:mx=”library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx”. [...]

January 8th, 2010 | Category: Flex | 5 comments
 
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