Entries from Comtaste Consulting | Enterprise RIA consulting and development tagged with 'actionscript 3'
Adobe Alchemy: a comparative example
In my last post I introduced the Alchemy Project and I explained how to install/set up the Alchemy environment on a Window machine to compile a very simple "c" file in a swc. Today I'll go deeper and talk about...
Security Data Trasfer - AS3 Encrypting Libraries and Http Monitor Softwares
One of the most important problem in Application development is the Security of Data Transfer from\to Client to\from Server. The Flash Player environment has a lot of security rules and controls to safeguard data in the Web, but sometimes it's...
Using an editable Combobox as itemrenderer
Flex editable combobox can be really useful if you need to let the user select either one of the predefined values or a custom input. The same result can be achieved using a TextInput for custom text and a button...
Alchemy: compiling C/C++ code into SWF or SWC
Alchemy is a research project that is intended to allow user to compile C and C++ code that is targeted to run on the open source ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2). With Alchemy, Web application developers can now reuse existing open...
AutoComplete custom component in Flex
Around the web we can find a lot of interesting e useful flex custom components. In my last works I had the chance to use the Autocomplete component developed by Hillel Coren (http://hillelcoren.com). In this post I'll try to present...
Automatic serialization of ActionScript objects to and from XML
In Flex application that use a backend server for data manipulation and storage, serializing and transferring the objects from a layer to another is an important matter. With products such as BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services this step is almost...
Importing REST web services in ActionScript with Flex Builder 4
Among the many Flex Builder 4 new features there is the possibility to import REST web services into ActionScript classes, in the same way that the previous builder allowed to import SOAP web services. It can import from XML as...
Rich 3D ActionScript applications with Papervision3D
Papervision3D is an open source, real time, 3D engine for the Flash Player. It offers an intuitive Actionscript 3 API that provides access to advanced tridimensional functionalities in a relatively small time. The library is being developed by Carlos Ulloa,...
Creating and accessing JavaScript objects from ActionScript classes in AIR
These days I'm working on the O'Reilly AIR Cookbook creating the examples for the chapter on the HTMLLoader class. The HTMLLoader class has a powerful method that lets you to load html content from a simple html string. The method is part of the public methods of the HTMLLoader class: loadString(). It accepts a parameter that contains the html content to laod within an istance of the HTMLLoader class:
Google Maps API for Flex and Flash: some tips and notes
Finally the official version of Google Maps for Flash is arrived. Google has just released the Actionscript API that provides map functionalities to web applications in a way really similar to the Javascript version.
Improve the ObjectHandles library with a smoother resizing movement
A very common UI element found in many applications are those little square handles around an on-screen object that allow you to move & resize it. To do this you can use the great ObjectHandles library. ObjectHandles (http://osflash.org/projects/objecthandles) is a library to allow a user to move and resize UI elements in a Flex based application.
Techniques to clone an ActionScript 3 Object in Flex using AMF3
When you want to clone an Actionscript Object you have three possible way: the deep-copy, shallow-copy or the lazy-copy. Deep-copy are the slower method but the most effective way, because the new object will lose any reference to the original object, so will not be any data shared between the objects. With shallow-copy results a situation in which some data is shared between the objects, the advantage is that their execution speed is fast
Automating ActionScript 3 classes generation from Java Beans in a LiveCycle Data Services context
In a Flex application that uses LiveCycle Data Services or the previous Flex Data Services to manage data from a remote server there is the requirement that Flex domain model classes have to match Java domain model, in structure, properties and types.
Introducing VEGAS, an Actionscript 3 / 2 and SSAS framework - Global event-listeners and addEventListener for ALL events
Vegas is an OpenSource Framework based on ECMASCript that can be used both on Actionscript 3, Actionscript 2, and Server Side Actionscript and it provides a lot of cool feature to help developers creating RIAs.
Creating an ObjectManager for improving the Flex interaction with Ajax or Javascript - 2nd part
In my previous post I have illustrated the creation of a simple object manager to make a javascript application correctly dialog with a Flex movie. That is a simple and well functioning solution, however it is not suitable for a more complex context, when it is necessary, for instance, to use several Flex or Javascript/Ajax applications.
Form fields focus and keyboard events in Flex 3 form based applications
We're working on some projects in Flex where the use of the keyboard to navigate through the application is a key aspect. They're both Flex 2 form based application Our goals were : - at the start up of the application give the focus to the first form field - pressing the tab key cycling the focus through all the form fields
Cerchi una consulenza su Flex 3, AIR, Livecycle data services e Java per lo sviluppo di RIA ? E' nata Comtaste Consulting
Dopo oltre un decennio di attività da free lance per lo sviluppo e la consulenza su Flash, Flash Media Server e, successivamente, Flex (fin dalla versione 1) e Flash Lite, ho formato e dirigo un team di professionisti che hanno una profonda conoscenza di queste tecnologie ed un solido background in Java, EJB3, Struts, Hibernate, POJO e Spring in ambiente Java Enterprise (J2EE).
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