OrangeFlash

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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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 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’ve made simple example with mx.modules, which is adding and removing modules from workspace. There are 3 modules - Weather (in Sofia, Bulgaria), Stock information about Adobe and currency rate - EUR > USD.

Web Services provided by http://webservicex.net

Here is small example on Runtime CSS Loading:

Runtime CSS
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See also:
Flex Help > Loading style sheets at run time
Senocular > Beginners Guide to Getting Started with AS3 (Without Learning Flex) (Check the part about mxmlc.exe compiler).

Long long time ago, I’ve created simple application - EffectsPlaygroung. EP could help you preview effects from mx.effects.* package. Everything was fine, but code was awfull, and UI design was hard to understand (Guess where is the button?).

So I’ve decided to rewrite it, current version can:

Create new Effects (Effect Settings menu)
Add Effects to Composition(Composition Settings or Via Effect header context menu)
Preview Effect(Play menu)
See Code(See Code menu)

I also plan to implement some drag and drop functionality.

Check this out.

Yesterday I wrote about Yahoo Flash Developer Center, and posted simple example example with web search using Yahoo API, now I present Yahoo Spell Checker, source files avaliable here

This works slowly, but I have an idea. This application should have some kind of local dictionary, which would filter words for checking, for example “I”, “the”, “hello”, “flash” and other commonly used words should not be checked, this should speed up the proccess.

Yahoo lunched Flash Developer Center.

With Search API we can:

• Use ussual web search
• Image search
• context search
• news search
• term extraction
• local search
• spelling suggestions
• and related suggestions

Here is very simple example of web search