Archive for the 'Adobe AIR' Category
Not only were there plans for the Photobucket AS3 lib…
They’re basically done! http://code.google.com/p/photobucketas3lib/ I just got finished working it into MyStylez today for easy drag/drop functionality while building MySpace layouts. The AS3 library itself is extremely well done and easy to use, took me no time at all. Great job Photobucket gang!
Going forward, I know which api I’ll be using for online image sharing 
I know some other AS developers, like Quentin, who commented on the last post were searching too and we didn’t see anything up on Google code yet, so we planned on maybe starting up a project. The guys at Photobucket beat us to it. So that was an easy job for us, can’t beat that!
Any plans out there for an AS3 Photobucket library?
I’ve been working with the AS3 Flickr library trying to make MyStylez cooler with some Flickr + AIR drag and drop goodies and was thinking I’d eventually try to work in the Photobucket API too.
I haven’t seen any ActionScript library projects yet, but then again I’ve been sitting in the dark for two weeks writing code and staying away from the sun…very healthy indeed. You may have noticed I didn’t exactly go to town on the blogging either, pardon my absense 
as I’ve been wholly absorbed with so much code flying through my neurons I feel like my head could split.
Does anyone know of any plans to crank out an AS3 lib for the Photobucket API? If so, I might want to jump on that one.
Adobe AIR Beta 3 - descriptor file porting
I ported AirSpace today from AIR Beta 2 to Beta 3 and overall it wasn’t that bad. Heh! First off, I originally used Rich Tretola’s UpdateManager class for AirSpace’s updates before, and it looks like he updated his entry for Beta 3 already. Wish I knew this before I upgraded mine 
Oh well, it’s done now. If you want a cool way to update your apps, that one works like a charm.
Nothing massive changed, its all pretty easy, but rather than chase all the new stuff down, I figured I’d post in case someone else runs into issues.
The first issue I had, was to remove references to Shell.shell and replace with nativeWindow inside the ActionScript. At least that’s one thing the new compiler was griping about and is now fixed. Referencing the application descriptor file from within the code had a few minor changes. The first thing I did after installing Beta 3 for AIR and Flex 3, was just create a new AIR project for AirSpace. That way, I had a new descriptor file to play with and seemed easier than chasing down any artifacts in the old one.
Some AirSpace Goodies
Now that I have a little more time once again to continue working on AirSpace I want to tighten up a few things with the app. Since this blog is pretty new and I did promise to write some useful tidbits, it probably wouldn’t hurt to reiterate exactly what AirSpace is. I had a few friends, family members and clients asking if I could help them style their MySpace profiles…{shudder}. No…please no!
Wasn’t exactly looking forward to that as I never really bothered with MySpace before, but when I had the idea to write an Adobe AIR application with Flex that’ll let them do the styling themselves I knew I was on to something. So far, there’s been heaps upon piles of suggestions to improve on AirSpace, many of which are current in the latest version 1.0.0.5. Some cool ideas were pre-made styles, which is going to take a while to create, but there’s a layout browser built into the app now. You can edit styles, save them to your machine and reopen them for a later date, swap them out on a whim and so on. Currently, there’s also a “practice template”. When you start up AirSpace, you’ll see a generic MySpace page to the right. You can check out your style edits as you go and apply them to your actual MySpace page when you’re ready. Here’s more info on my other blog.
For example, I think the Tables styles are still a bit buggy, this is probably due to overwritting some bit of CSS in the final output. Maybe I can jump back on that today. In the meantime, a few developers were asking for details on how I got certain things working so I figured I’d share a bit of code (useful once again).
