'Adobe AIR' Category
The difference between rollOver and mouseOver
http://polygeek.com/1519_flex_the-difference-between-rollover-and-mouseover
Growl support for AIR apps on the Mac
Mike Chambers has announced that Growl is soon to be Adobe AIR-friendly. Growl is one of those add-ons you need to install when you get a Mac, so this is a very good thing to happen for Mac AIR users.
OOP in AS3
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/actionscript/articles/oop_as3.html
http://ntt.cc/2008/10/07/gang-of-four-gof-design-patterns-in-actionscript-strategy.html
http://www.insideria.com/2008/11/exploring-the-strategy-design.htmlAS3 memory management
Old post from Grant Skinner, but will probably come in handy at some point when trying to manage Flash apps that are chugging in the browser and taking up huge amounts of memory.
gTween; the new tweening daddy?
Just read the latest post on Grant Skinner’s site. His new gTween engine sounds very powerful and comes in at only 4.5k! Intend to give it a test drive very soon, but I don’t doubt it’ll be impressive.
The Charges Against ActionScript
Very good article by Colin Moock on some of the issues raised over ActionScript 3.0.
Additional information on Loader.unloadAndStop
Grant Skinner’s posted an update on Flash 10’s useful addition. Read more here.
Google Maps AS3 API
Google Maps is amazing. Sometimes you just have to hold your hands up and give credit and the Google guys deserve it for their maps application. Now they’ve released an API for Flash! Woo-hoo!
Flex accessibility
A good post from Aral regarding the state of accessibility within Flex. I hope they concentrate on this side of Flash soon rather than adding more wizzy features; it seems with Flash and AJAX you’re always having to hold your hands up and admit that they don’t bring a lot to the party when it […]
Flash performance in browsers and within AIR
Meant to post this before. Interesting comparison between the performance of Flash within a browser and within the AIR runtime.
