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The making of ChessJam Flex/AIR + ColdFusion + LiveCycle DS = fun project!

A few weeks ago, I unveiled a weekend project that I’ve been involved in for several months called ChessJam.  I am now making good on my promise to share why we the selected the technologies behind this desktop application for playing online head-to-head chess. Obviously this is primarily a personal project but there is a [...] (translate)

fl packages in flex/flash builder

Recently I tried using Five3D in a pure AS3 project using flex builder 3. Everything went well upon compiling, it was nagging that it (FB) couldn’t find the fl.motion.Color class. I looked into the Five3D code and it is indeed using the Color class to simulate basic shading. And actually that error wasn’t so weird because [...] (translate)

50+ Amazing Christmas PNG Sharing With You

tweetmeme_url='http://ntt.cc/2009/11/09/50-amazing-christmas-png-sharing-with-you.html'; tweetmeme_style = 'compact';; In previous article 20 High Quality Free Wordpress Theme For Christmas, we have introduced some christmas wordpress theme, you can use them to update your blog skin. But we think you also will need some Christmas PNG files to make your blog or website more attractive. Following we have [...] (translate)

Aspire UI: Applying Background Glow+Shadow

The “background” property defined by the com.ghostwire.ui.core.uiComponent class determines the style of the background for a component instance – color, opacity, border color, border width, gradient fills, and corner radius. By default, no background will be drawn. The following is an example on how to draw a simple background: var pane:uiPane = new uiPane(); pane.background = { [...] (translate)

Dependency Injection, frameworks and other latest AS3 trends, Robotlegs, Dawn, Parsley?

Attending last LFPUG meetup got me thinking about all the latest Flash and Flex development, especially in the way in which this development is going. I think the community is becoming much more mature and this can be observed by the number of frameworks that have recently poped up. Everyone is blogging about it, and [...] (translate)

Quick Tip: ModuleEvent.Ready not firing

public function loadModule(objEvent:Event):void { var objModuleInfo:IModuleInfo = ModuleManager .getModule("module/ModuleViewA.swf"); objModuleInfo.addEventListener(ModuleEvent.READY, onModuleReady); objModuleInfo.addEventListener(ModuleEvent.ERROR, onModuleLoadError); objModuleInfo.load(); } The above code must be familiar to you when [...] (translate)

Quick Tip: Issues handling legacy files (Pre-Flash Player 9 swfs)

Loading legacy (pre flash player 9) application/content and communicating with it is avoidable for following reasons: -        Difficult to communicate (LocalConnection/SharedObject etc) -        Not reliable behaviour -        Loading multiple pre-Flash Player 9 SWF’s into the same app breaks sometime -        Issues with _global, static variables and singleton classes which remain stuck -        Garbage collection needs to be handled carefully. Pre [...] (translate)

The Fade Command

You can fade the opacity and change the blend mode of the painting tools by immediately selecting Edit > Fade Brush after painting with them. This shortcut also works for a variety of additional commands including image adjustments, strokes, fills... (translate)

Configuring JBoss / LiveCycle to Autostart on SUSE Enterprise Linux

Instructions to configure JBoss to autostart on Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux (translate)

(rt) Illustration: Amazing concept art, Vintage VDubs, & more

Check out some incredible concept art from Rodolfo Damaggio. I love these automotive manual cutaway drawings turned into giant wall art. If the imagery trips your trigger, Bryan Hughes suggests How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive. [Via] Cool map to the LA Olympics... of 1932: (More info is here.) Tutorials: Slick--How to Create Smoky Brushes and Type In Illustrator CS4. Halloween+Photoshop: Russell Brown shows how to turn people into monsters. (translate)

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