Software, Fitness, and Gaming – Jesse Warden

Category: Flex

  • ActionScript 3 Cheatsheet: flash.display.*

    Thotskee posted on the Flashcoders mailing list a link to an ActionScript 3 cheatsheet he made. It currently lists most of the classes in the flash.display package. That must of been a ton of work, I’m sure. Now that he’s set the bar so high, he’ll need to not only finish the display package, but also the others. Thankfully, I’ve reorganized my home office, so now I have room to post on my wall when he (or those that offer to help him) get them all done!

    Combine that with the Flex 2 mx API poster from Rocketboots, and my office will be awash in ActionScript. w00t! Thanks T!

  • Speaking About Flex 2 for FMUG.az

    I’m speaking about Flex 2 this evening to the folks at FMUG.az, and it will also be broadcast & recorded via Breeze. I’ll be doing an overview of the technologies, and show some my favorite features through some code examples I’ve built. Specifically, I’ll be covering:

    1. What Flex 2 is & why you should care
    2. Flash Player 9 (formerly known as 8.5)
    3. ActionScript 3
    4. Flex Builder 2, the new IDE & plugin for Eclipse 3.1
    5. Flex Framework 2
    6. Briefly touch on Mystic, the ColdFusion 7.0.1 updater
    7. Briefly touch on Blaze, beta name for Flash 9

    I have an immense amount of material to cover in 2 hours, so I welcome questions before (comment on this blog), during, and after the presentation. You should come away understanding what Flex 2 is, what technologies make up Flex 2, and how each part can benefit your Flash, Flex, server-side, and/or general Rich Internet Application work.

    It starts at 6:30pm Arizona time, 9:30pm eastern time (GMT -5), and you can get the Breeze link from here.

  • DrawingPad for Flex 2

    A simple drawing pad for Flex 2, beta 2. Someone had asked on the Flexcoders list if there was a drawing component in Flex 2. This has been done countless times in Flash, so I wanted to use this as a reason to learn about some of the chagnes to UIComponent. There aren’t as many as I thought; easy to get up to speed if you’ve ever built a component in Flash MX 2004, Flash 8, or Flex 1.5.

    There are a ton of things I could add to this, but I wanted to keep it simple for others to easily dive into the code. It took 4 hours to do, and while it uses next to no MXML, I am reminded how enjoyable it is to code ActionScript in Flex Builder 2.

    Requires Flash Player 8.5 beta.

    DrawingPad – App | Source | ZIP

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  • ActionScript.com Asks Me 10 Questions

    …and I answer 9 of them.

    10 Questions with Jesse Warden