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[14 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]

Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo, is now beginning active development. The product plan is not yet complete, but a few themes are under consideration:

Design in Mind: provide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developer. Probably involves an additional component model that integrates with the existing Halo components.
Accelerated Development: take application development from concept to reality quickly. Features could include application templates, architectural framework integration, binding improvements.
Horizontal Platform Improvements: features that benefit all application and user types. Features could include compiler performance, language enhancements, BiDi components, enhanced text.
Broadening Horizons: …

ActionScript 3.0, XML »

[13 Nov 2008 | One Comment | ]

XMLManager is a utility class that provides a single interface to load XML. Please find the source files at the end of the tutorial.
XMLManager Utility makes work easy to load XML in actionscript3.0, Utility is free to use.
Just pass the URL of the xml as explained in code at timeline at source file to load XML.
XMLManager Class :

/**
* XMLManager is a utility class that provides a single interface to load XML
* And dispatches XMLLOADEDCOMPLETE event when the XML loaded
*
* Code from …

ActionScript 2.0, XML »

[12 Nov 2008 | One Comment | ]

This tutorial shows how to create dynamic slideshow by fetching the data from XML and the slideshow.
This tutorial covers reading XML using XPathAPI, Conditional operator, MovieClipLoader, setTimeout.
XpathAPI:
The native XPathAPI class allows us to search the XML nodes and attributes within XML that €™s loaded in to flash.
To know more about using XPathAPI click here
Conditional Operator:
Using conditional operator is similar to if else statement.
Example:

var test_boolean : Boolean = true
if(test_boolean)
trace(”I am True”);
else
trace(”I am False”);
//output:I am True

Same Logic using the conditional operator

var test_boolean : Boolean = true
test_boolean == true ? trace(”I am True”) …

AIR, ActionScript 3.0 »

[11 Nov 2008 | One Comment | ]

While creating widgets the application should not appear on taskbar. But with AIR there is no such option to get rid of the application from taskbar.
I was searching the internet and I could find for Flex + AIR, but I could not find for Flash + AIR.
Here comes the Utility and Lightweight windows in action, these are type of native window but they will not appear on the taskbar.
But with only utility and lightweight windows we can’t make an application.
Initially we need to load our usual AIR application and close …

ActionScript 2.0, XML »

[7 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]

XPath API:
XML used to make our flash applications more dynamic.
The native XPathAPI class allows us to search the XML nodes and attributes within XML that €™s loaded in to flash.
Simple XML Structure:

Loading XML:

The basic actionscript code for loading XML in actionscript 2.0

var xml:XML = new XML();
xml.ignoreWhite = true;
xml.onLoad = function( isLoaded:Boolean )
{
if(isLoaded)
{
// here this refers to the xml object. Instead of this we can also use xml there.
trace( this );
//trace( xml );
}else
{

Design »

[3 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]

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