Entries from Comtaste Consulting | Enterprise RIA consulting and development tagged with 'flex 3'
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...
Weborb .NET: a simple example
In my last post I showed you how to install Weborb .Net connector, now I'd like to build a little example using this technology: we will create an object from the server side and send it to the client. It's...
Rich Interactive Applications restyling: A matter of usability
When you have to plan a Rich Internet Application from the start it’s quite easy, i mean that you have the freedom to follow the right workflow in order to guarantee your clients the best results. You can think about...
Styling ItemRenderers in Datagrids
I'm rather new to Flex: my training began a pair of months ago. Last two weeks at Comtaste we were involved in reskinning an old application we decided to update and restyle. So, it was my first time skinning an...
Flex Skin: Adobe Flash and Adobe Illustrator interaction
When I create components for applications, as I already said in one of my previous post , I usually use Adobe Illustrator. I found out that sometimes, when I export an swf with my skin directly from Illustrator, it doesn’t...
Livecycle Data Services and Flex Development Best Practices
Adobe Italy and Comtaste are organizing a series of events about Enterprise Flex development with Livecycle Data Services and BlazeDS. The next date is on 27 November at the Adobe office in Milan and it's titled:
Flex skinning with Adobe Illustrator CS3
There are different way to skin Flex components when you design an interface, but the easiest for me is doing it using Adobe Illustrator. I’ll tell you why. The first thing is that, most of the time, the kind of...
Image editing with Flex applications
Talking about graphic design and image editing I have tried two interesting Flex applications that you can use to work on pictures adding effects or just text layers. They have both a direct connection to some of the most famous...
Flex rich interface design: why big companies choose Flex
It is interesting to see how big companies choose Flex to interact with costumer on their websites. We are used to see lots of nice widgets created with this kind of technologies but maybe a little bit less used to...
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.
Measuring the ROI of choosing Flex for Enterprise RIAs
The ROI index is a synthetic yet meaningful parameter used to express the benefit of making a project, as well as the benefit of making a certain choice related to a project, for example the technology to be used.
Comtaste launches new Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR training courses in New York City, London and Milan
Comtaste has just launched its new training courses on Adobe Flex3 and AIR for late spring-early summer 2008. First courses to be scheduled are: "Flex 3 and Flex Builder 3: Developing Rich Internet Applications with the new Flex 3 SDKs"...
Creating template components in Flex 3 and AIR
The template component enables you to define and create properties in the components with a general data type. This means that a template component is equipped to act as a property or as the defined object with the same data type of the property declared in it or a subclass of that data type.
The advantages of going open source with Flex 3
As you probably know, Flex 3 is gonna be open source. But many developers are asking what that means. There is a great interview by HowSoftwareisbuilt to Phil Costa who is the Director of Product Management for Flex and ColdFusion at Adobe, with responsibility for product definition and strategy of the Flex product line. This is the answer Phil gave to the question : What are the advantages of going with more of an open source model — what are the advantages of taking something that hasn’t been open source and open sourcing it?
Flex 3,LiveCycle Data Services and Adobe AIR sessions at the MAX 2007 Conference
On the Adobe MAX 2007 blog has been published the pre-conference training day, a full-day hands-on training sessions. These are the tracks dedicated to Flex 3, Adobe AIR and LiveCycle Data Services
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
Adobe AIR, Flex 3 and Integration between Fireworks,Photoshop and Flash CS3 with Flex. All of these topics at the AdobeLive 2007
Today is the second day of AdobeLiveConference here in Italy. I'm here with Enrique (and some enormous mosquitos) in the business room of the AdobeLive and we're about to start our presentation. Enrique will present Adobe AIR (formerly Apollo) and talk about Flex 3 and new features. After his presentantion I'll show the integration of the Adobe CS3 with Flex and Flex Builder. It's incredible how many things designers and creative are now able to do to help Flex developersin creating the user interface of Flex applications.
Flex 3 and Flash Player 9 update on the Labs
oday Adobe released a lot of new technologies on its Labs section: Flex 3 Flash Player 9 update 3 and Adobe AIR (Adobe Intergrated Runtime). Flex 3 is the one we are waiting for and the new features of this release are a lot and Adobe made an excellent work. As you can read from the Introduction to Flex 3 article by Matt Chotin : the Flex 3 release is divided into four major themes: designer/developer workflow, working with data, Adobe AIR applications, and platform evolution. Let's quickly review some of the highlights
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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