Adobe AIR 3 includes a great new feature: StageText. Using the normal TextField for text input works just fine, but this new TextField-like class allows you to control your text input more closely (especially on mobile devices) with many options like auto capitalization, software keyboard type, and more. It has its caveats (it’s a separate class, [...]

The quick explanation With we released of AIR 3.0 we added this awesome new feature called native extensions. Trust me these are cool. Essentially, a native extension will let you extend the functionality of your AIR app so it can access the native capabilities of a device. So, by adding some native code you can: make a mobile device vibrate. change the channel on a TV read pressure sensitivity data from a pen table The more technical explanation A native extension is a combination of: ActionScript classes. Native code. Native code is defined here as code that executes outside the runtime. For

FITC posted a photo: with Christophe Coenraets and Holly Schinsky

FITC posted a photo: with Christophe Coenraets and Holly Schinsky

FITC posted a photo:

FITC posted a photo:

As part of our effort to get more involved in our community, my team has been out there in the forums listening to issues and pulling stats on page views and ratings. After gathering up the data we generated a list of top issues. You know what’s at the top of that list (besides Flash Player crashes)? People are having trouble learning ActionScript. We get tons of questions like: why do I need to learn scripting? Where do you get started? Who can help?  We can help. We’ve spent some considerable effort to try and make the process of learning

If you have an older version of the product, please check the following links so that you can consider upgrade to a supported version. Adobe Product – Supported Versions: http://www.adobe.com/support/programs/policies/supported.html CF: http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-standard/tech-specs.html Flex: http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/tech-specs.html LCDS: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/LiveCycleDataServicesES/3.1/Platform/LiveCycle_Data_Services_3.1_Platform_Martix.htm FMS: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashmediaserver/productinfo/systemreqs/ AIR: http://www.adobe.com/products/air/tech-specs.html Flash Player: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/tech-specs.html

AnyChart Team has found a very weird bug in Flash Player 11.0.1.152, which doesn’t manifest itself in Debug version of Flash Player, but ruins math in regular version, so we had to debug it in non-debug version: using ExternalInterface and JavaScript console. Bug description In regular version of Flash Player 11.0.1.152 the following expression: 1/Math.abs(0) is evaluated as -Infinity, [...]

Beta versions of Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 have just been posted to Adobe Labs.

The waiting comes to an end, you can now upgrade your FDT to a whole new dimension. FDT has just become the perfect toolkit for Flash-/Flex-, haXe- (HTML5, JS, PHP, WebGL …) and mobile development. New Features: haXe support Extract Method Extract Constant Extract Local Variable Convert Local Variable to Field ASDoc View Fat SWC [...]

We were very pleased to hear that Lifehacker.com awarded Klok the titles of "Best Time Tracking App for Mac OSX" and "Best Time Tracking App for Windows". Take a look and see what they had to say about it but nothing beats trying it out for yourself. Download the free version at www.getklok.com and let us know what you think. Now we are not about to just sit back and coast, so we have been working on a new version of the Klokwork Team Console to make using Klok for a whole team much easier. Also on the horizon... updated

In Flex 4.5, we introduced the Spark version of DataGrid, which provides a vastly improved skinning experience. Spark DataGrid has a multitude of skin parts that can be customized and tweaked through its skin. These include the row backgrounds, row separators, column separators, selection indicators, caret indicator, hover indicator, etc… (see DataGrid Documentation). This post [...]

I did a webinar last Wednesday on using Native Extensions with Flash Builder. The agenda covered an introduction to Native Extensions – Rather Actionscript Native Extensions, the workflow involved in using native extensions, followed by a live demo. For those of you who haven’t had the chance to attend, Here is the link to the [...]

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I’ll add more later… busy… package {   import flash.display.Bitmap; import flash.display.BitmapData; import flash.display.BlendMode; import flash.display.DisplayObject; import flash.geom.ColorTransform; import flash.geom.Matrix;   import mx.core.UIComponent;   [DefaultProperty("children")] public class FlashSymbolContainer extends UIComponent {   private var _children:Array; private var childrenDirty:Boolean = false; … Continue reading →

In last week’s post, I introduced Part 1 of Create a mobile Facebook Flex application in Flash Builder 4.5. Let’s now complete the application by introducing how you retrieve user information, post status updates, and skin buttons. Similar to Part 1, I’ll be referencing the original tutorial throughout this tutorial and only point out differences in [...]

Advertise here with BSAIn this tutorial, we will learn how to create AIR Application for Android mobile devices using Flash CS5.5. To complete this Flash tutorials, you will need to have Flash CS5.5, Android SDK and Android  2.3.3 platform tools as will see later. The first step is to download the Android SDK from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html.Pick your platform (mine is Mac.) [...] Advertise here with BSA Related posts:Premium Stock Flash Cartoon Animation Unbeatable Android Apps for Graphics Designers Premium AS3 Flash Preloaders for Your Sites How to Create HTML5 Banner Animation in Adobe Edge How to Create a Hand-Drawn RSS Icon in Illustrator

Note: the following is mostly supposition but seems to help. In Flex for web or desktop development we all make heavy use of the creationComplete event to initiate all sorts...

It’s saturday noon and I’ve got an FDT5 Prerelease version installed (thanks again to Powerflasher). And as I’m about to do some iOS & Adobe AIR performance tests I’m in need of an app.. obviously. So, wouldn’t it be nice to directly check out the new mobile workflow in FDT? It could cost me a [...]