Category Archives: Cairngorm

Placing a ContextMenu on TextArea in AIR 1.5

The TextArea in Flex comes with its own contextual menu, so adding one does absolutely nothing but leave you wondering what the heck you are doing wrong. In the bug report there is a bit of a work around for AIR 1.5 which requires you to access the “textField” property of the TextArea and add [...]
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PhoneSeek :: Adobe AIR application

PhoneSeek is an application to track any device that uses InstaMapper. InstaMapper is free real-time GPS tracking service. To use InstaMapper you need a GPS enabled device with the free InstaMapper tracking software installed along with a API Key from InstaMapper’s web site for each device you own. You can track mobile phones (iPhone, G1, [...]
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Cairngorm Plugin for Flex

If you are a heavy user or closet fan of Cairngorm (like me) then you would be interested in knowing that there is a new Cairngorm plug-in out from Adobe that generates some of the Cairngorm code automatically from Flex Builder 3. Also read some of the notes that Brian Deitte wrote after attending the [...]
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Drop your framework?

After attending an interesting session at Adobe MAX 2008 titled “The Flex Architecture Face-off”. At first I though the speakers (Yakov Fain, Chafic Kazoun, Todd Anderson, and Joshua Noble) were going to debate which framework was the best, you know, Cairngorm, PureMVC, Mate, and others. Initially the speaker surveyed which frameworks developers were using and [...]
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Cairngorm Daigrams

There are a couple of Cairngorm flow chart diagrams available.  One is from Russell Munro (PDF) and the other comes from Flexheads, where they actually have a site dedicated to the Cairngorm Microcarcitecture.  The site includes Cairngorm diagram in many different formats, a Visio document, and Cairngorm documentation forum. 
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