Archive for Actionscript 2

Prototyping: ActionScript’s best kept secret.

Jan / June 8, 2011 / 18 comments

As a developer, once in a while you discover something new that makes you go ”How come nobody ever told me about this and why do I only find this out NOW ? ” Last year, when I discovered that a Function in AS3 is also a class and can be used as a a [...]

Category: Actionscript 2, ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash, Flash Builder / Tags: ActionScript, ActionScript 3, Flash, prototyping

drawing a perfect circle with the curveTo function.

Jan / September 1, 2010 / 2 comments

I’m guessing most of you already know what the graphics.curveTo function is. As the name suggests, it allows you to draw a curved line that starts at a certain point, bends towards a control point, and ends in an anchor point. The starting point of the curve can be defined in three ways: undefined: the [...]

Category: Actionscript 2, ActionScript 3, Flash / Tags: circle, curveTo

ColdFusion-Powered flex/air RIA

Damien / January 29, 2009 / No comments

A few days ago, Adobe asked me to speak on a workshop about the integration between ColdFusion 8 and Flex. As a ColdFusion developer, the ColdFusion part was not a problem, but I was a bit afraid by the Flex part, since I’ve never used Flex or flex builder before. I eventually decided that I [...]

Category: Actionscript 2, AIR, ColdFusion, Flash Media Server, Flex / Tags: AIR, ColdFusion, Flex

Settimeout in AS2 classes

Alwyn / July 9, 2008 / No comments

I know this has been mentioned on other blogs but I just wanted to write about this myself (first blogposts ). The problem when dealing with the global timeout method in actionscript 2 classes was and still is that you are not able to use the setTimeout global function. Whereas setInterval is still accessible. But [...]

Category: Actionscript 2 / Tags: ActionScript

Meanwhile, on the blog

Flex 4 – Controlling a custom component’s skin states

December 28, 2011

The new Flex 4 skinning architecture makes it easier for developers to completely change the look and feel of an application, while providing better separation between components and their skins. In this blogpost, by using FXG and the new states syntax, we’ll write a basic MXML skin that reflects it’s hostcomponent states. For those of [...]

Do Flex and LiveCycle still have a future?

December 20, 2011

I’ve been quiet for quite some time now. There are 2 reasons for that. The first one is simply because I have been busy on a couple of projects and just didn’t find the time to write another blog post. The second reason is that I wanted to wait and see what would happen with [...]

I’ll be speaking at gotoAndSki();

October 27, 2011

Tonight I got one of the “coolest” emails you can get: I’ve been invited to give a session at gotoAndSki(); Switzerland on January 26th, 27th and 28th, 2012, which is really awesome. Unfortunately I haven’t been to this conference before, but I’ve heard very nice things about it and let’s face it, skiing during the [...]

Using binding expressions in ColdFusion 9

September 6, 2011

As a longtime Flex developer I’ve always been used to having binding expressions to do one or more of the following things: Bind the value of one input field to a data model Bind the value from a data model to an input field or label Bind the value of one input field to a [...]

Creating a custom required RadioButtonGroup Validator class in Flex

July 13, 2011

Today I was discussing the Validator classes on the Adobe prerelease forum with a couple of other Flex developers. The Flex Validator classes are pretty good for some basic validation and give you a fly-over error message (which you can customize) and a red component outline when the validation fails. Now, the problem with these [...]

multimediacollege, Adobe Authorized Training Centre