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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009TweetRecently a co-worker was asking me about creating custom pre-loaders for images within Flex applications. I mentioned that I had been using a library called FabulousFlex which can be downloaded at http://strawberrypixel.com/blog/downloads/ This simple pre-load library handled all of my needs and is quite simple to use. So, I thought I would share. Here is [...]
Capabilities in Flex and AIR
Friday, July 24th, 2009TweetThe Flex/AIR sdk has a class called Capabilities which allows you to get information about the users environment. You can access these properties statically. These properties can be very important when it comes to tailoring your user’s experience. If you were unaware of the Capabilities class in the past, there is no longer an excuse [...]
Attention all RIA Book Authors
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008TweetAs some of you may know, I have been the community manager for the InsideRIA site since its launch last year. I would like to try something new for InsideRIA and that is publishing some snippets of information that is part of your book during the writing process. Think of it like “here is what [...]
Adobe AIR 1.1 now in the wild
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Tweet AIR 1.1 has been released! http://get.adobe.com/air/ The major change in tis version is support for localized and internationalized applications. The AIR runtime itself now supports multiple languages (Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish), as well as support for building internationalized applications (including keyboard input for double-byte languages).
Beginning AIR – Accessing the File System Part 2
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Tweet The second entry of the 3 part series of excerpts from Beginning AIR from Wrox has now been posted at InsideRIA.com. This excerpt covers how to use the File class to create, move, copy, and delete files. It will also demonstrate the usage of the FileStream class for working with the contents of individual [...]
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