http://blog.ujungpandaran.com Flash / FMS / Flex / Adobe AIR Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:50:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Each programming language has its own mindset so analogies or comparisons with other programming languages provide little help or value if we want to use it well. It is all about developing the mindset, and of course we don't need to wait until Java will run into Flash Player ;) It’s interesting ... http://blog.ujungpandaran.com/2008/12/01/why-i-might-not-want-to-use-flex/ Tiobe Softwares has released rankings of programming languages and popularity of programing languages for the month of November 2008.  The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, and YouTube are used to calculate ... http://blog.ujungpandaran.com/2008/11/04/actionscript-entered-in-top-20/ You might find it useful to launch Flex Builder (as Eclipse plugin) help in a standalone mode by launching help in a mode that uses a standalone help server installed with the IDE. To start standalone help, at the command line execute the following : java -classpath C:\eclipse-SDK-3.2.1-win32\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.help.base_3.2.2.R322_v20061207.jar org.eclipse.help.standalone.Infocenter -command start -eclipsehome C:\eclipse-SDK-3.2.1-win32\eclipse -port 4567 ... http://blog.ujungpandaran.com/2008/10/31/using-flex-eclipse-help-as-standalone-mode/ You have a flash / flex application where you want to allow users to customize the text formatting, font style / font weight for some text box. So you would provide a small set of fonts which would all get embedded into the swf. If we working with external fonts in ... http://blog.ujungpandaran.com/2008/09/30/externalize-font-with-font-subset-font-weight-and-font-style-at-the-same-time/ Perhaps ActionScript 3.0 is more proprietary than it was last week. It’s still extension of ECMAScript and still holds a lot of the core values, namespaces and package. Maybe EcmaScript 4.0 was stillborn, and maybe the harmony will change the future of language/ the standards committe. I think our joint concerns ... http://blog.ujungpandaran.com/2008/08/15/in-flash-platform-we-trust/ Well, Merapi has been a long time in the making, but on July 14th, 2008 the initial Merapi Alpha release candidate has been distributed to the Merapi Alpha community of users. Last evening Adam packaged up first Alpha RC 1 Build! It seems to be bug free and functioning rather nicely! Read ... http://blog.ujungpandaran.com/2008/07/15/merapi-alpha-code-released/ It's a simple AIR based debugger for flash & AIR apps. Arthropod is really easy to use, the only thing you need to do is import the Debug class, write a log message with the log function, start Arthropod and publish your site / AIR application. Nice application to try http://blog.ujungpandaran.com/2008/07/12/nice-flash-air-debugger/ Plurker is an up and coming Windows WPF Desktop application that interfaces with Plurk.com to bring Plurking to desktops everywhere. And there's a few things the reasons why that would be difficult or impossible for write the apps on AIR, read here Tell me, was it fair enough? Personally, I will ... http://blog.ujungpandaran.com/2008/07/06/plurker-wont-build-on-top-of-air-platform/ With new event on Sound object ("samplesCallback") and other improvement capabilities (such dynamically create audio) in Flash Player 10, hope there's someone already create FP 10 MIDI player and available for free on next several months. Could somebody tell, is there possibility of making MIDI player in FP 10? ... http://blog.ujungpandaran.com/2008/06/18/create-midi-player-in-astro/ One day several years ago after Actionscript 3.0 released, I've been believed the time will coming someday if this 3D engines will be porting to Actionscript. Mascot Capsule 3D and Mobile 3D Graphics has been used as technologies  for Mobile 3D programming for the Java™ Platform Micro Edition on Sony Ericsson ... http://blog.ujungpandaran.com/2008/06/07/m3d-mascot-capsule-3d-porting-to-actionscript-30-next-candidates-for-3dengines/