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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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”. [...]
I have build a little Twitter AS3 library which handles Twitter OAuth authentication and let’s you update your Twitter status. The lib basically uses the OAuth AS3 lib and should be a good example how to use the actual OAuth lib.
This is still basic functionality but since it’s open source someone may fork and extend [...]
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