SWF It Good

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.

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.

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.

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. Read more »

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

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]

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

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.

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