Flash Builder (which is a succesor to Flex Builder) is currently avialable in beta 2 version for some time now. Since Adobe is still postponing release date of final versions I decide not to wait any longer and try to grasp it’s new features in some application more complicated than samples provided in tutorials that could be found around the webAfter dowloading and installing application we get 60 days of evaluation period, but it can be prolonged using valid Flex 3 license number.
Alternative title: What I’ve been doing is wrong
Different browsers have different “default” styles, which makes it a challenge to even make text appear the same way across all of them. When you want to accomplish this, there is a well known CSS trick that I’ve been using for a long time: Read More
When Steve Jobs presented the newest Apple gadget, the iPad, the discussions started all over the world. Some call it a ”giant iPhone”, except that you can’t use it as a phone, so maybe a giant iPod Touch is more accurate. The similarities are many. The iPad can run most of the applications on Apples App Store, and to develop iPad applications you use the iPhone SDK, although a updated version with better support for the new giant. Will the iPad be the next big thing and experience the same success as the iPhone? There are a bunch of discussions out there. The price, the size, the possibilities and of course the limitations. One of the limitations I have read most about, and as a Flash developer are very interested in, is the lack of support for the Adobe Flash Player.
Since the release of the iPhone Adobe have tried to get Apple to release a Flash player version for the iPhone, but without any luck. The situation has not changed when it comes to the iPad. The big difference here is that one of the major things to use iPad to is surfing the web. We have been used to limitations when surfing the web on mobile devices. But I must admit that I don’t expect any of these limitations when it comes to a “mini-computer” like the iPad.
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The debug version of the Flash Player 10.1 beta is available now, which is a relief.
As for the upcoming CS5 release, Lee Brimelow’s put up another preview video. In addition to the iPhone compiler previously uncovered, this is our first peek at some of the other features we’re looking forward to, such as the new text engine, improved font embedding, the XLF format, improved code panel with custom class completion and various other improvements and tweaks. Looks pretty good, although I get the feeling that CS5 is a far smaller update than CS3 and 4; this feels more like CS4.5 than a fullbred new version. As for CS4, it was just upgraded to 10.0.2, and it seems far more stable and responsive now. Read More
A quick tip if you’re using Flex Builder and are missing a quick way to format your code. Flex Formatter is a free open source plugin that adds some very useful buttons to your IDE. These will make ASDoc, format, and code rearrangement just one click away.
Get the plugin from SourceForge or read Grant Skinner’s installation guide to install it from within Flex Builder.
Firefox 3.5 as well as many smartphone browsers like Mobile Safari include a JavaScript API to geo-enable your web applications. Using it is pretty simple, and it gives us the ability create a completely new range of services utilizing the user’s current position. We can use it to position yourself on a graphical map or use yr.no’s weather API to get the weather right where you are.
Flex 4 SDK
But if you want to explore full list of changes and improvements to framework, there is a “Flex 4 features and migration guide”, which could give you more information about it.
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