Spring ActionScript 2.0 Progress Reports
We’ve been working hard in the last months on the new release of the Spring ActionScript framework and the related AS3Commons libraries. Roland wrote down the progress made and highlights some of the...
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Flex Accepted for Incubation at Apache
Exciting news today as (Adobe) Flex has been accepted as an incubation project at The Apache Software Foundation. The voting – in order for the proposal to be accepted – was an all positive response...
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Actionscript Vector initialization
In actionscript there is a nice syntactical shortcut for quickly initializing Arrays like this: var arr:Array = ["bla", "bla", "bla"]; Fortunately, something similar turns out to exist for Vectors as...
View ArticleExport DataGrids to PDF using AlivePDF
AlivePDF is an open-source ActionScript 3 library that makes it possible to generate PDF files directly from your AIR/Flex or Flash application. Some basic functions in the Spark DataGrid, label...
View ArticleDetecting Pepper based Flash Player
If you’re looking for a way to detect if the Pepper based Flash Player [1] is used from within your Flex application, you can simply check the Capabilities.manufacturer property. In case of Pepper it...
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Automated web application tests using Selenium (Part 2)
Welcome to part 2 of this tutorial about writing automated tests using Selenium. You can find part 1 here In this tutorial we will approve the comments posted in the first tutorial through the backend...
View ArticleUse of mixins in Apache Flex
In some cases you would like to implement functionality in your application without manually instantiating a class. That’s where mixins come in handy! What’s a Mixin?? According to Wikipedia, a mixin...
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Joystick AIR Native Extension
I was recently asked to add joystick support to an Adobe AIR application. After looking for existing support I stumbled upon the following: GameInput: out of the box gamepad support in AIR. Only works...
View ArticleAS3Commons updates
We’ve tuned some of the AS3Commons libraries with performance updates. Here’s a short technical overview of the most important changes: AS3Commons Lang In the latest release, ClassUtils leverages...
View ArticleRunning unit tests for AIR library modules in Intellij IDEA
When running unit test in Intellij IDEA for an AIR library module, an AIR application descriptor – “_flexunit-descriptor” – is generated with a version number (3.1) that doesn’t necessarily match the...
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