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Print Screen detection in AIR

Posted by James - 17/04/09 at 09:04:06 am

Here’s a little something I’ve been working on recently – Print Screen support in AIR. It has to be AIR because only AIR allows you to access the OS clipboard, and only AIR seems to have access to the full keyboard. There’s a few things I’ve looked at and various snippets of code, so I’ll cover them in roughly the order I figured it all out…

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Video Tutorial Link(s): Getting started with Regex

Posted by Mark - 09/04/09 at 11:04:06 am

Ever wanted to learn how to use regular expressions but always thought they looked too complicated?

‘In the Woods’ are doing a series of tutorials on how to use them.

Day 1: http://blog.themeforest.net/screencasts/regular-expressions-for-dummies/
Day 2: http://blog.themeforest.net/screencasts/regex-for-dummies-day-2/
Day 3: http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/regex-for-dummies-day-3/
Day 4: http://blog.themeforest.net/screencasts/regex-for-dummies-day-4/

For most of the tutorials they have a quiz at the end, just to make sure you were paying attention! (It also gives you an insight into the topics they’ll cover)

Talking about: Flex Gumbo – new features

Posted by James - 06/04/09 at 09:04:52 am

After seeing Andrew Shorten’s presentation on Flex 4 (Gumbo) and Flash Catalyst at #FlashMidlands this weekend, I thought it would be a good time to post a few Flex 4 links and a few thoughts.

Flex 4 is looking exciting – Flex is one helluva good tool anyway, so the step from the Flash IDE to Flex builder that I experienced is hard to top when going from Flex 3 to Flex 4, but there are a few nice features that I remember from the presentation. [Note - this is all done from memory, so please correct me if I've said anything incorrect.]

Remote services – autogeneration of data models.

Flex 4 has a whole load of new wizard-type processes for automatically generating classes and data models for remote services, using a combination of introspection and descriptors.  Livecycle and PHP are the main (most widely supported) languages for this, but it will also work for webservices or httpservices written in any language, such as ASP.Net.

Data models are basically classes in actionscript that represent objects stored in other places/locations.  I spent days putting together data models manually for my side-project on the Unfuddle API, so to hear that Flex 4 can autogenerate these is really cool (and slightly disheartening).
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