High level AS3/Flex library for OAuth with Twitter from AIR

Recently I have played again with the Twitter API and finally have OAuth working. When I have first played with the Twitter API I have used the example from Tour de Flex. The example loads up the friends list and uses the Twitter AS3 API. The API is not really my taste but offers the [...]

Width Problem with Firefox

Recently I ran into a problem that I had to build a Flash movie which should fit the browser window meaning the Flash movie is embedded with 100%x100%.
The problem I had is that even if I resized the browser window to something like 400×400 the stage.width property still showed 662. This caused that the content [...]

Swiz 0.6.2 with Flex 4 support

We just released a new Swiz update:

Flex 4 support (beta)
TwoWay autowire
Mediate priorities
Pass event to mediating method

Flex 4 support
Today Adobe has released Flex Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst betas on Adobe Labs. One more reason for Swiz to support Flex 4.
We have now posted two SWCs for Flex 2/3 and one for Flex 4. To [...]

Swiz Unit Tests with FlexUnit 4

Recently FlexUnit 4 beta 1 was released. To get started I recommend FlexUnit 4 in 360 seconds and the feature overview. If you are using the Swiz framework and want to apply some changes to provide a patch file you could run the unit tests to be sure to break no features.

This is quite easy [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]