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Abstract Thermometer AIR app

So over the last few months I’ve been messing around with Adobe AIR. The first thing that I worked on was what I was called at the time Abstract Weather Bug. I then noticed that the title was too long.

Look the title is not important. The way the this app works. Is you open the setting slider and enter in your zip, low and high temp scale, Fariehiet or Celsius, and the click GO.

You have the option to save your setting and intervals to which it will check the temperature again.

It then will display a color some were between a gradient of pure blue and red. Post coming soon explaining some of how to create a color scale.

I’m not really a designer (planning to work on that this year) so it doesn’t look awesome.

Add comment January 22nd, 2009

Johnny V now available on Adobe AIR Marketplace

Check it out, Adobe excepted my submission into the AIR Marketplace. I thought they’d give me crap about the uncleared picture of the actual Johnny Five from Short Circuit. Cool later.

Add comment December 29th, 2008

Roman Numeral/Arabic Convertion AIR App – Johnny V Now Available

Merry Christmas, I got you guys present.

I was looking for a need to make an AIR app, though this isn’t the best one, I turned my converter class into one. Introducing Johnny V.

Add comment December 25th, 2008

Adobe Evangelist Daniel Dura visits Travelocity

So today Daniel Dura, an Adobe Evangelist, came by Travelocity to talk about Flash, Flex and AIR. It was interesting to here him speak and his hair was redder then pictures led on. But I won’t hold that against him.

History and Examples

If you have ever seen anyone from Adobe speak, you know they have to go over the History of the Flash Player, AVM, JIT and all that. Luckily he didn’t have to talk about the history of the web as some Adobe eseminars do.

Once he got past that some people asked questions about some of Adobe’s technologies. I’m not quoting Daniel, but he compared Flash to Silverlight and AIR to WPF. One thing I didn’t know is that the debugger and even the compiler are open source. Though I will never want to rewrite the compiler. Nice Adobe

Oh and they showed this killer travel app that they cooked up.

Examples

I don’t know what the rest of the audience’s background is but I though it was good he went over using AS3 in FlexBuilder. Some examples were using E4X, Arrays and DisplayObjects. Afterwards he created a simple Flex rss reader for his blog. Then converted to an AIR app which is quite simple if you didn’t know.

What was not easy was him showing us how to compile it only using the command line. Thankfully after that he showed how to do that in FlexBuilder (cake).

Next was an HTML example, I forgot what the example was. Though he remined me that you can call flash packages in JavaScript. The way it works is their is the flash engine and the JavaScript engine. The JavaScript engine says, “Hey, I can’t find this DropShadowFilter thing…Oh, I’ll look in the Flash engine. There it is.” That is really exciting to me. See my post on calling Flash class in Javascript.

After that he talked about the other AIR specific packages.

• Drag and Drop
• Service Monitor
• SqlLite

(An aside) One thing I saw that was awesome cause I love the in operator and for each but I didn’t know you could do this

[as]var array:Array = ["butter", "eggs", "sugar"];

trace((2 in array));[/as]

Good Job Daniel. You reawakened my want to use AIR.

Oh see his Air Code

Add comment April 15th, 2008

I smell a lawsuit

I was doing a search for Adobe AIR books coming out and found this. Who’d a thunk it!

Add comment March 2nd, 2008

How to use the FileSystem in AIR to find the users directory folders

I was messing around last night with AIR and I stumbled apon this:

1. start an AIR app in flash cs3
2. add a list component
   1. name it dir_list
3. drop the code below in the actions panel
4. And Viola!
5. PS – PC people, I put a test to see if My Documents in in that Directory.

[as]

import flash.filesystem.*;

var userDirFiles:Array = File.userDirectory.getDirectoryListing();
for (var i:uint = 0; i < userDirFiles.length; i++) {
if (userDirFiles[i].isDirectory) {
//this.display_txt.text = String(userDirFiles[i].nativePath);
dir_list.addItem({label:userDirFiles[i].nativePath })
var tmpString:String = userDirFiles[i].nativePath;
if(tmpString.search(/My Documents/) != -1)
{

dir_list.addItem({label:”working”});
break;
}
}
} [/as]

Add comment March 1st, 2008

Google analytics AIR beta

So I receive my e-mail for the beta test for a Google analytics reporting tool. It is great almost like the original only visually more appealing. See if you can get on the list.
http://www.aboutnico.be/index.php/2007/09/15/google-analytics-air-beta-newsflash/

Happy Flash/Flexing

Add comment September 21st, 2007

OnAir Bus Tour – Dallas

Adobe spared no expense on the Tour. I came in to the Angelica Movie Theater to a sea of people and a bunch of food. All FREE! I saw a guy get a beer and a weird thing happened…he didn’t pay. I watched two more and decided to try it for myself. “Heineken please,” I said. He handed me a Heineken and I kept my wallet in my pocket.

Next, I went upstairs and got some shwag.

Then, the classes started.

I can’t remember what everyone presented but,

1. Kevin Hoyt I feel bad cause when I talk to him I thought he was ,Danny Dura, who also presented
   
2. Mike Downey
3. Mike Chambers
4. Lee Brimelow – was awesome a great presenter, inspiring as always and very funny.

The best thing I saw was that w/ Javascript you can call flash, even custom Actionscript classes. All you have to do is do add a swf through image source
then called “runtime.com.joshspoon.bitmap.etc”. You could process a image in your HTML w/ AS then put it back in the DOM. The possibilities are endless. (Thanks Kevin)
That’s the skinny on that. I learned about what I can achieve w/ Flex/Flash/HTML editor/AIR. Check out AIR(Adobe Intergrated Runtime)

If you were a javascript and/or flash developer you missed out on info and networking. Sad face.

Add comment July 19th, 2007

Apollo is now Adobe Intergrated Runtime Flex 3 Moxie is beta to the public

Wow, Apollo is now beta. I’m going to still call it Apollo. I like it better then that stale name it is now. I like the acronym but not the full name.

Also Flex 3 beta is out!!! Get it now.

Flex builder 3 MOXIE

Flex SDK

Apollo beta 1

Apollo SDK

HAPPY CODING

Add comment June 11th, 2007