Today I had a little chat with Thomas Pfeiffer, who created the Sandy 3D engine. A while ago I came across his AS2 image-distortion class. Remembering that while implementing hardback-pageflip functionality in my Book component, I decided to port the class to AS3. Thomas was so kind to give me permission to publish my AS3 [...]
Just a second ago I changed an Array property into an ArrayCollection, when I tested my project again a RangeError was thrown telling me that I was trying to access an index that was out of bounds (occuring at .getItemAt()). Now this itself didn’t surprise me alot, but what did surprise me was that I [...]
As I was reading Ted Patrick’s post on Apollo in Flex3 I happened to notice that in the screenshots some of the text in the window title-bars had been smudged out. Obviously this was done in order not to give away what the name of the final Apollo release will be (since Apollo is a [...]
UPDATE: The beta version of the Book class (including source-code) is now online! rubenswieringa.com/blog/flex-book-component-beta Lately it’s been kinda quiet on my blog, this semi-silence has been with good reason though because in the past few months I have been working on a booming feature-rich pageflip book component for Flex. Check out the alpha demo by [...]
Via a post by Neil Webb I bumped into a post by Mike Morearty in which he talked about changing the index.template.html file that Flex Builder automatically generates when one of its projects is launched. As Mike says: “Suppose you want the main HTML file that wraps your Flash app to be deployed as index.aspx [...]