Topic: Opinions
Adobe opens door for creating alternative SWF players
Adobe just announced a new project called the Open Screen Project. There’s a lot going on with the project, so I won’t try to summarize all the different points and partners. If you read through the material, you’ll see that a lot of it talks about opening the door for improving access and presentation/experience for […]
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Strongly typed arrays — coming to ActionScript near you
I’ve been wanting to have strongly typed arrays in ActionScript for a long time. I was pretty excited when I read that it’s part of the EcmaScript 4th edition specification (in the form of the Vector class), and much more excited when I heard that the Vector class is being included in Flash Player “Astro” […]
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Adobe AIR 1.0 ships! SQL changes, and other thoughts
Now that Adobe AIR 1.0 is in the wild, I wanted to post an update about changes that happened with the local SQL database functionality between beta 3 and the final release. Plus, I’ve had some general thoughts about the release of the software that I thought I’d share.
For some reason, the final time that […]
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AIR beta 3 and local SQL database changes
Note: Sorry for the delay on this article. I composed this article a couple of weeks ago, and then I got busy with work and holidays and I forgot and didn’t publish it until now =(
If you’ve been following my posts on AIR and the SQL database functionality, you may have noticed a trend: every […]
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Flash Player Astro’s identity crisis (or “What will ActionScript be like when it ‘grows up’?”)
Note: On Nov. 1, 2007 I made a small change to the title of this article. The original title was “Flash Player Astro’s personality conflict…” (substituting “identity crisis” in the current title with “personality conflict”). However, I realized that “personality conflict” wasn’t the most accurate term for what I was trying to communicate, and “identity […]
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The future of Flex application frameworks-my thoughts
This post started out as my notes from the Oct. 11, 2007 SilvaFUG user’s group meeting, which included two talks on Flex application frameworks, but by the end I realized it was more of a restatement of (filtered through my opinion) some of the important forward-looking ideas that came out of the audience discussions and […]
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Why doesn’t Adobe’s AIR dev guide mention SQLite? A response to Tim Anderson
Yesterday Tim Anderson asked a question: “Why doesn’t Adobe’s AIR dev guide mention SQLite?” As the author of the “Working with local SQL databases” chapter in the AIR Developers Guide that Tim refers to, as well as the related sections of the AIR language reference, I guess I know better than most people the answer […]
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Book Review: ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
With the release of Flex 2 and ActionScript 3.0, I started to watch for new books coming out. Admittedly the numbers have been smaller than I expected, but the first book to hit the shelves — one I’ve been anticipating with enthusiasm — is the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook by Joey Lott, Darron Schall, and Keith […]
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“Introduction to ActionScript 3.0”: slides, files, and recording
A few weeks back (February 21, 2007) I gave a presentation titled “Introduction to ActionScript 3.0” to the Indiana University Flash Users’ Group. The bulk of the presentation was a comparison between previous ActionScript versions and ActionScript 3.0, looking at syntax, the object model, event handling, how code runs in Flash Player, and more. I […]
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Multiple AS3 classes in one file
Since you could do it in early betas of Flex 2, but can’t seem to now, some people have been wondering if it’s possible to have multiple ActionScript 3.0 classes defined in a single .as file. Here’s a look at how to do it, and why you might or might not want to.
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