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Link: Comparing files in Flex Builder

Posted by James - 07/10/09 at 10:10:38 pm

Useful link I’ve come across today – http://undefined-type.com/2008/07/flex-builder-built-in-compare-tools/ – how to use the built-in Flex Builder / Eclipse compare tools.

Link: Creating a snazzy background in Flex 4

Posted by James - 15/06/09 at 09:06:05 am

Peter deHaan has posted a cool example of the way things work in the new Flex 4 ‘Spark’ framework;

http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/06/13/creating-a-fading-bitmap-fill-background-on-a-spark-panel-container-in-flex-4/

The aim of the new Spark components is to make it much easier to customise the appearance of standard Flex components – similar to the Degrafa project. If you’re interested in either of these, then I hope you’re already signed up for Flash Camp Birmingham, June 16th 2009 (tomorrow), as James Whittaker of RefreshingApps.com will be doing a session entitled “Skinning components with Degrafa & FXG” which should be interesting!

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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Video Link: Spatial Key

Posted by Mark - 25/03/09 at 05:03:32 pm

Some of you may have heard of this – I think it was mentioned in the latest edition of Flasher Magazine when Lee interviews Doug McCune.

The video alone is really well put together, let alone the actual application!

Read more at: http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/03/24/spatialkey-launches-private-beta/

x3 Video Tutorials for getting started with Degrafa

Posted by Dan - 18/03/09 at 02:03:32 pm

I found these 3 tutorials on degrafa at the weekend. Degrafa is really easy to use to get some really good looking results.

http://www.asfusion.com/examples/item/skinning-with-degrafa-1

http://www.asfusion.com/examples/item/skinning-with-degrafa-2

http://www.asfusion.com/examples/item/skinning-with-degrafa-3

Link: EFFlex – Designer Effects for Flex

Posted by James - 20/02/09 at 12:02:12 pm

http://www.efflex.org/

Link: Why the Flex AdvancedDataGrid sucks

Posted by Dan - 19/02/09 at 11:02:01 am

http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/02/08/analyzing-the-size-of-the-flex-framework-or-why-i-hate-the-advanceddatagrid/