The Flex SDK offers a commandline interface for automatically generating documentation. With ASDoc you can easily create a HTML based documentation for your ActionScript projects and libraries if the code follows the doc style documentation standard. By adding an Ant script to the ActionScript, Flex or Air project in Eclipse, this task can be simplyfied and automated. more »
The Firefox Piclens (now Cooliris) plugin offeres a stunnig visual presentation of online photos. The 3D wall let’s you intuititely navigate through large amounts of pictures, zoom in and watch them in more detail. It was the trigger for programming an prototype for an image wall with ActionScript and the Papervision3D library which offers very powerful possibilties for creating interactive 3D Flash based interfaces. more »
The last articles explained the basics behind a Cairngorm based Flex application. Now it’s time to get hands on a working example. The Address Manager is very simple, it organizes and manages contacts. The data is stored on the server in a small SQLite database. Flex is in charge for the interface, the view logic and for dealing with user interactions. The remote communication is done by AMFPHP. Let’s look at some important parts ot the application. more »
With the release of Yahoo! Maps for ActionScript 3 it is now possible to use the maps API for your Flash and Flex applications. The component provides very handy classes for geocoding content, creating map overlays and using an advanced search. more »
Jan 12
The FlextypeTester is a small Flex based tool for comparing different type settings. You can set some common paramters for a sample text. These settings are applied automatically and allow a direct comparison of different settings. more »
The title and alt attribute on images and links are useful as they provide additional accesability information to the user. They are also necessary for creating valid, standard conform XHTML documents. The only probelm is, how browsers render the information: with an ugly light yellow box containting a standard font type. more »
