With the Flex 4.5 SDK (aka Hero) you can now create some very nifty mobile applications to run on Android enabled devices as well as on the BlackBerry PlayBook. Now, one of the features you’ll use on any touch enabled device is the swipe gesture. You can use this gesture to move things around or [...]
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Adding swipe gestures to your mobile Flex application
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flex, Mobile /
Tags: Flex Hero, gestures, swipe, touch screen, TransformGestureEvent
Changing the registration point in a Flex app
You know, when you work in Flash professional and you’re creating a symbol for example (or a movieclip all together) you can set the registration point to almost whatever you want. However, in Flex you don’t have that liberty. Now this poses a problem when you have an application that uses an image, for example, [...]
Sneak-peak to my session at Adobe MAX 2010
Adobe MAX 2010 is less than 2 months away and while I’m in full preparation for my lab sessions I though I’d give a small teaser about what you can expect from it. The lab I’m doing is going to be about the designer-developer workflow topic, which has become quite hot since Flash Catalyst has [...]
Category: Conference, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, Flex /
Tags: Adobe MAX, designer, developer, LA, Los Angeles
estimating the duration of a Sound Object while loading.
In case you never used the Sound class before, let me give you a brief introduction. The Sound class is found in the flash.media package and is used (hard not to be obvious here) for playing sounds. The constructor for the Sound class has 2 optional parameters: stream:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“url:String“); context:SoundLoaderContext = new SoundLoaderContext(“buffertime:Number” [...]
multimediacollege records video tutorials for AdobePulse website
Hi everyone, Some time ago I was asked by the Belgian Adobe Office to do a couple of video tutorials on the new Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 features. Naturally, I felt honored to be asked to do this, so I gladly complied and headed out to the Amsterdam office to record them. And [...]
Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 released
Adobe has released a new version for their 2 runtimes, Flash Player and AIR. Naturally, with those releases come new and improved features as well. Let’s take a look at what makes it worth to upgrade to the next version. Let’s start with the new Flash Player. You can download it here and it’s finally [...]
Category: ActionScript 3, AIR, Flash, Flex /
Tags: AIR 2, Dynamic streaming, Flash Player, global error handling, Microphone
multimediacollege is getting ready to teach Flex 4 courses
After Flex 4 and Flash Builder having been released last month, we are working hard to get the first Flex 4 trainings organised very soon. It is going to be a 4-day course which will guide you through the basics of Flex 4, so you can get cracking at your own first Flex 4 project. [...]
It’s D-day: Adobe releases Flex 4 SDK, Flash Builder 4, ColdFusion Builder and Flash Platform Services for Social Network Integration
Yes! This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for so long. After a long series of beta and prerelease versions, the new Flex 4 SDK has been officially released. And of course, this release is also accompanied with the release of Flash Builder 4. This is the new version of Flex Builder (for those [...]
Category: Coldfusion Builder, Flash Builder, Flex /
Tags: CF Builder, ColdFusion, Flash Builder, Flex 4, SDK
