OrangeFlash

Yeah, I’m moving blog to blog.kiichigo.eu. Hopefully I will write there more often =)

That’s just f**king awesome, 1920×1080@60fps, rock solid product from Liverpool Studios.

Small component which may act as ViewStack’s little brother.

Component acts somewhat like ViewStack, but it has following differences:

• It accepts DisplayObjects (not only mx.core.Container instances)
• It accepts IFactory instances.

And since it’s very young component, it missing some features like: exceptions and event dispatching, but it’s coming.
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I’ve found nice debugging tool not long ago. Seems to be quite handy. The only thing I miss is integrated Logging that’s might be useful with AIR development.

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Maybe I’m reinventing bicycle but..I just found 2 short ways to add attribute in XML node.

public function funnyXMLBehavior():void
{
	var xmlDemo:XML = ;

	//this is works

	xmlDemo.childNode[’@atr1′] = ‘Orange’;

	//and this is workwing too 0_o

	xmlDemo.childNode.@[’atr2′] = ‘Raspberry’;

	trace(xmlDemo.toXMLString());
}

I can’t say that I did big part for this site, but I’m proud of this anyways.

And yes, I will remember working on this site forever :D.

I’ve just opened small site, with my humble collection of libriaries. - framework.orangeflash.eu. Currently you can find there:

• XML RPC: Allows you work with XML RPC API on server, for example you can work with blogs.
• WordPress: WordPress API, build on XML RPC API, for WordPress based blogs.
• Yahoo: Wrapper for original YahooSearchAPI, that allows more comfortable work, alogn with MXML component

Note: I didn’t make examples yet :)

To create your own meta data, in Flex you have to set compiler option: -keep-as3-metadata

Here is small example -

Index.mxml:

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To be honest I don’t like Yahoo Search ActionScript 3.0 API, it doesn’t support all data types, for example in order to get thumbnail url, from image search request, you have to parse xml manualy… Also it does not compile with strict-mode compiler option.

So I’ve decided to create my own wrapper for Yahoo API. Here is another pre alpha version (damn, I have too many alphas :) ).

My wrapper has new event object - YahooEvent, and different ValueObjects for different search types. for example Web VO has following fields:

• title
• summary
• url
• clickURL
• dateModified
• cache:
• url
• size

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I was porting mx.effects from Flex 2 Framework to ActionScript 2.0 recently, and here is some result. You can work with them just like in AS3, you can create effects and compositions (Parallel or Sequence).

Example.
Sources.

Note: I did not ported all classes, like Dissolve, Pixilate etc yet. And this is pre-alpha stage of porting, classes are not fully documenter, and only IEffect.play() method was tested so far.