Author Archives: Mister

AS3: Simple Mouse Scrolling List

By Mister | Published: September 6, 2010

Here is a simple ActionScript 3 list that scrolls with selectable items done two ways. The list itself acts like a component added to the stage, it can be sized and placed anywhere on the stage. The first way scrolling is achieved is based on the movement of the mouse over a defined masked area. [...]

Posted in AS3, Flash | Tagged AS3, CS5, ENTER_FRAME, Event, Flash, List, MouseEvent, MOUSE_MOVE, TweenLite | Leave a comment

AS3: Button with Text and Basic Styling

By Mister | Published: August 22, 2010

It’s been a while since I had the opportunity to work on a pure AS3 project. I recently had a need for a simple AS3 button that displays text and decided to customize the SimpleButton control. As I quickly discovered, the SimpleButton control isn’t really setup to support text or a lot of other features, [...]

Posted in AS3, Flash | Tagged AS3, Flash, SimpleButton, TextField | Leave a comment

AIR for Android: Phoenix Traffic Application

By Mister | Published: August 10, 2010

I developed a simple Flex 4 application targeting AIR for Android. For this application, I used Flex to build a somewhat smaller version of a previous application that uses XML data to display a list Phoenix traffic cameras locations and images. The images are updated on an set interval and locations are selected from a [...]

Posted in AIR 2, Android, Flex, Flex 4, Flex Builder 4 | Tagged AIR 2.5, Android, Flex 4, List, Multitouch, TouchEvent | Leave a comment

Blog Refresh

By Mister | Published: July 17, 2010

I just moved my blog from my previous web host to a new one, expect some bumps along the way along with broken links and examples. I am slowly working through fixing them, but feel free to report them to me if you find them. What prompted me to move my blog was price for [...]

Posted in Flex | Tagged WordPress | Leave a comment

Screen Capture with AIR 2 NativeProcess

By Mister | Published: May 24, 2010

Prior to AIR 2 the only way to capture the screen was to use something like Marapi Java Bridge that acts as a conduit between your application and the native system. However, AIR 2 now lets us call With AIR 2 Beta and the upcoming AIR 2 release, you can now use the command-line tool [...]

Posted in AIR, Component, Flex | Tagged Adobe AIR, AIR, Command-line interface, Screenshot | Leave a comment

AS3 Yammer Library

By Mister | Published: January 27, 2010

For the past few months I have been working on an AS3 library that wraps the Yammer API for use in Flash, Flex, and AIR projects. The biggest hurdle was making the application work for the web. As it is now, for Flash projects, you still need to be targeting Flash player 10 so that [...]

Posted in AIR, API, Flash Builder 4, Flex, Flex 4 | Tagged as3corelib, as3signals, as3yammerlib, Yammer | 1 Comment

AIR: Migrating Expired Certificates using AIR 1.5.3

By Mister | Published: January 6, 2010

If you renew your certificate and you are running an earlier version of Adobe AIR than 1.5.3, you are in a world of hurt. The process of updating and renewing your certificate is enough of a pain, but trying to update your AIR application after your certificate expires prior to 1.5.3 required you to just [...]

Posted in AIR, Flex 3 | Tagged AIR, Flex Builder 3, Migrating Certificates | Leave a comment

Preventing scrolling and mouse events on out of focus AIR application

By Mister | Published: September 29, 2009

This has been a little bit of annoyance for me for some time. When an AIR application (like any Twitter application) is out of focus and you click on the application activate it, you inadvertently click a link or button within the application. You are also able to scroll the application when the application has [...]

Posted in AIR | Tagged Adobe AIR, Event.ACTIVATE, Event.DEACTIVATE, mouseChildren, mouseEnabled | 1 Comment

Custom AIR updater interface using ApplicationUpdater

By Mister | Published: September 13, 2009

To tell you the truth, I never gave the ApplicationUpdaterUI much thought in terms of memory use before this post. I just thought it was a great way to add a complete update system to your AIR applications. I had not thought it could be so memory intensive until a recent conversation with Jesse Warden [...]

Posted in AIR, Flex | Tagged AIR, ApplicationUpdater, ApplicationUpdaterUI, Flex | 13 Comments

Spark TextFlow LinkElement Rollover in Flex 4

By Mister | Published: August 30, 2009

This is a little example of how to create a skinned rollover popup on a LinkElement object in Flash Builder 4 (Flex 4) within a TextFlow object. This is something I have been waiting for since 2001. The old way to create a rollover action on an HTML link was to create an invisible MovieClip [...]