I’ve found out today, that there is no longer FlashDen.net, but instead there is new site in Envato network called ActiveDen. It’s same site, but Adobe has asked Envato to change the name because “Flash” is registered trademark of Adobe. And there are also Flex files on ActiveDen, so there are no more just pure Flash files, so it’s maybe better name now.
This friday we have released major update for Goalscape AIR application. It is project we (me with Tomas as Flexets company) have been working on for more than year. If you are not aware of Goalscape application please look at intro video. But in one sentence it’s Goal Management Software.
I have found 2 issues with DragManager.doDrag. One of the problem is just on Mac and second one is “not really problem”, but strange behavior between web version and AIR version. I really can’t find answers for this problems, so I’m trying to get answers from you. I hope anyone has workaround for me 
In my appliaction, The code: “application.close();” is used to exit
the application. And I found, no. of ways are there to exit the application. Let me
know, which one is best , should allow the grace full exit and should faster.
No. of ways to Exit in Flex:
1. NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit();
2. Application.application.exit();
3. application.close();
4. exit();
And please advise, any other option is there to exit the application.
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is long title, but it can tells everything. I came up interesting issue. I do not know if you have already played with new AIR 1.5. We need some new features, so we have used it. And found interesting [...]
This is just quick tip for all AIR developers. If you are developing AIR application and you want to use ContextMenu please be aware of possible problem on Windows platform. This is not problem on Mac, and it’s not problem in Flash Player (even on Windows). It is problem just in AIR on Windows
Adobe AIR 1.5 with codename Cosmo is available in Flex SDK Nightly builds. There are include almost all features with Flash Player 10, 5 new languages supported, Integration of the SquirrelFish JavaScript VM into the Webkit HTML engine (should provide significant improvements to JavaScript execution), fixed bugs and many more…
Mike Chambers got more information.
SitePoint.com has released FireScope, which is HTML and CSS Reference fo Firebug, so now Firebug is even more powerful with inline help.
Lately, I’m learning stuff about internet marketing in my spare time. I want to try generate some money from own products, so I think it’s useful to learn such things. I was lucky to find Josh Spaulding blog about online money and internet marketing. Then I’ve joined his Internet Marketing Coaching Forum and this was [...]
SitePoint.com has released FireScope, which is HTML and CSS Reference fo Firebug, so now Firebug is even more powerful with inline help.
Lately, I’m learning stuff about internet marketing in my spare time. I want to try generate some money from own products, so I think it’s useful to learn such things. I was lucky to find Josh Spaulding blog about online money and internet marketing. Then I’ve joined his Internet Marketing Coaching Forum and this was [...]
I have some new Flex Tip for you. Maybe you have found it already if you have tried add new thumbs to Mx:Slider (HSlider, VSlider) programatically. There can be various “small” problems. Or maybe there is just another way
What I’ve tried is increase thumbCount property and add new value to values property. But [...]
SitePoint.com has released FireScope, which is HTML and CSS Reference fo Firebug, so now Firebug is even more powerful with inline help.
There is contest on http://cssmenumaker.com to increase participation and build library of menus. Winner will win 4GB iPhone.
CSS MENU Contest
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We will be accepting horizontal, vertical, and drop-down menus as submissions. All menus must be 100% valid CSS (No JavaScript) and be cross-browser compliant. Each submission must consist of a Zip/Rar file containing the following:
CSS Style [...]
Maybe you know about collection of very useful CSS technique collection, I just didn’t. There are such great techniques like: CSS Based Navigation, CSS Tabs, CSS Bar Graphs, Define Image Opacity with CSS, Pullquotes with CSS, CSS Diagrams, CSS Image Preloader, Dynamic Piechart with CSS and many others. 53 different techniques are gathered in this [...]
I have commercial project in Flex 4. That’s great I always wanted to use Flex 4 for commercial project (otherwise I didn’t have time to work with Flex 4). It was too risky, because Flex 4 is just beta 2, but application depends on custom skinning, so we have decided to implement it in Flex [...]
My current project needs to use new native 3D in Flash Player 10. It seems so easy to use it, just set any 3d property like x,y,z or rotationX, rotationY, rotationZ and all should work perfectly. It seems so. But I have found problem and it seems it’s Flash player bug (I hope someone proves [...]
When you want to change your permalinks structure in Wordpress, it’s easy way if your are Wordpress semi-advance user. But there are also Wordpress Newbies, which want to change Wordpress permalinks structure as well. I’ve created small wordpress plugin called Permalinks Changer, which helps you to change you permalinks structure in more friendly way
I’ve created newsletter service for useful tips & tricks for Flex, AIR, Flash, ActionScript. If you are developer and using this languages and tools on your daily basis, or just want to receive different tips & tricks, please Subscribe to Franto.com Tips & Tricks.
It is time for new design on Franto.com. I’ve tried more designs in last and never been satisfied with them. I’m looking for clean and simple Web2.0 theme with nice features and providing information faster for searchers.
My new theme is Community from ThemeForest.net
I’ve found out today, that there is no longer FlashDen.net, but instead there is new site in Envato network called ActiveDen. It’s same site, but Adobe has asked Envato to change the name because “Flash” is registered trademark of Adobe. And there are also Flex files on ActiveDen, so there are no more just pure Flash files, so it’s maybe better name now.
Recently I have used inverse mask in my project – a mask that hides everything beneath it, keeping everything outside visible. I knew there is no direct support for inverse masking in Flash, but such effect can be achieved by using blend modes.
To my surprise when you google the term “flash inverse mask” all top [...]
I have to confess I didn’t know about great function enterDebugger() in flash.debugger package. If you ever want to have conditional breakpoint you can do it programatically. Just add this statement to you code and debuger will stop as it there would be normal breakpoint. So you can use it in IF statement and call it just when some conditions are met. I think I will use this function a lot from now on
I’ve found today some small problem with setting XML attribute for my current application. I’m generating HTML source code via XML, because both are tags languages and I have found this nice problem. Imagine you have DIV tag with class attribute set like this:
This is just quick tip for all AIR developers. If you are developing AIR application and you want to use ContextMenu please be aware of possible problem on Windows platform. This is not problem on Mac, and it’s not problem in Flash Player (even on Windows). It is problem just in AIR on Windows
I’ve created newsletter service for useful tips & tricks for Flex, AIR, Flash, ActionScript. If you are developer and using this languages and tools on your daily basis, or just want to receive different tips & tricks, please Subscribe to Franto.com Tips & Tricks.
I have commercial project in Flex 4. That’s great I always wanted to use Flex 4 for commercial project (otherwise I didn’t have time to work with Flex 4). It was too risky, because Flex 4 is just beta 2, but application depends on custom skinning, so we have decided to implement it in Flex [...]
My current project needs to use new native 3D in Flash Player 10. It seems so easy to use it, just set any 3d property like x,y,z or rotationX, rotationY, rotationZ and all should work perfectly. It seems so. But I have found problem and it seems it’s Flash player bug (I hope someone proves [...]
This is quick solution for Flex coders. If you want to sort column in DataGrid, default sorting is sorted by String and not Number. If you have just one numeric column, you can create custom sort function and set sortCompareFunction for given DataGridColumn. If you have more such columns and you dataProvider is ArrayCollection which consists of many object, better solution is override DataGridColumn and implement compareFunction inside this class.
I have some new Flex Tip for you. Maybe you have found it already if you have tried add new thumbs to Mx:Slider (HSlider, VSlider) programatically. There can be various “small” problems. Or maybe there is just another way
What I’ve tried is increase thumbCount property and add new value to values property. But [...]
This is quick solution for Flex coders. If you want to sort column in DataGrid, default sorting is sorted by String and not Number. If you have just one numeric column, you can create custom sort function and set sortCompareFunction for given DataGridColumn. If you have more such columns and you dataProvider is ArrayCollection which consists of many object, better solution is override DataGridColumn and implement compareFunction inside this class.
I have few times lately this error in Flex Builder and there were at least 2 cases, which cause this error to happen. So maybe it will help you to find your problem.
Some file (in my case .flexLibProperties) has SVN conflicts, so you need to resolve conflicts and merge them to solve this “Unable to [...]
I’ve found today some small problem with setting XML attribute for my current application. I’m generating HTML source code via XML, because both are tags languages and I have found this nice problem. Imagine you have DIV tag with class attribute set like this:
I have some new Flex Tip for you. Maybe you have found it already if you have tried add new thumbs to Mx:Slider (HSlider, VSlider) programatically. There can be various “small” problems. Or maybe there is just another way
What I’ve tried is increase thumbCount property and add new value to values property. But [...]
If you are going on FlashOnTheBeach to Brighton this year, you can meet me there and say hello. Maybe beer will be good at the evening If you will look for Flexets guys (t-shirt with Flexets logo) I know you will find me. It’s always great to see my readers and subscribers. [...]
We have launched new forum on our company site Flexets.com to help people in Flex / Flash / AIR / ActionScript learning process. I hope we will help people to see that beauty and easiness in developing with Adobe tools. It’s targeted to Flex, AIR, Flash, ActionScript as well as collection of useful resources. We [...]
If you have interesting and fun flash game, you can earn money. blitzgamer.com games portal is searching for fun, addictive games. They for offers from $100 to $2500 per game. They will just add their logo + more games link. You don’t have to send them your .fla
Enjoy
New Tower Defense clone: Desktop Tower Game From Mike Downey on Pownce
Enjoy
Here is nicer implementation of Tower game I’ve posted before
There is lot of possibilities for your strategies
Enjoy.
I get more Google Wave invitations today and as I have already invited my friends I have now free Google Wave invitations. So if you want to try Google Wave and play with it, but do not know anyone with Google Wave account, ask in comments. I will send 10 invitation for first 10 people which will ask for Google Wave invitation in comments.
Few months ago I’ve created site http://filmcomposers.info about Movie Soundtracks Composers, because I like movie soundtracks and music composing (orchestral) (I really love Hans Zimmer work). But site is still not indexed by google…
Recently I was not satisfied with old front page, because it shows latest posts just from 2 selected categories. If I wrote new posts in any other categories, users which came from other source than Adobe feeds or any RSS reader subscribed to my feed was not aware of new posts. The only possible place was in sidebar in Recent Posts section. So I’ve implemented changes in my Wordpress Community theme, which I’ve purchased while ago from ThemeForest.
I get more Google Wave invitations today and as I have already invited my friends I have now free Google Wave invitations. So if you want to try Google Wave and play with it, but do not know anyone with Google Wave account, ask in comments. I will send 10 invitation for first 10 people which will ask for Google Wave invitation in comments.
Off Topic: This is really amazing sand animation by Ksenyia (winner of Ukraine’s Got Talent). She is painting and animating German occupation of Ukraine in WW2.
Few months ago I’ve created site http://filmcomposers.info about Movie Soundtracks Composers, because I like movie soundtracks and music composing (orchestral) (I really love Hans Zimmer work). But site is still not indexed by google…
Here is quick information about Slovak success on Winter Olympic Games in Torino 2006
Slovakia medals stats
We got first medal from Winter Olympic games in our history:
Radosla Zidek – Silver medal in Snowboard Cross
Slovak Ice Hockey national team results:
Group results:
Slovakia:Russia 5:3
Slovakia:Latvia 6:3
Slovakia:USA 2:1
Slovakia:Kazakhstan 2:1
The Czech Republic has ended Canada’s two-year streak as gold medalists with a thoroughly convincing 3-0 win.
And the WINNER iiis…
Czech Republic
Congratulations.
IHWC 2005. is ended.
Yes, i saw Slovakia ice hockey team Last Game on IHWC 2005 with Canada. We lose game 4:5 and do not continue on tournament. BUT! It was our greatest game on IHWC this year, we were winning 3 times by 1 goal, and we were playing amazingly, but 1 luckily goal for Canada ice hockey [...]
Today I will have presentation about Flex Styling & Skinning for slovak Flex User Group called Flexgarden. If there are really cool skinned or styled application on web, or something other really cool I can show to slovak flex coders, please let me know. Presentation will be today at 7pm CET. Sure I’m aware of sites like scalenine.com, fillcolors.com and similar
This is start of new serie on my blog Franto.com. In latest Flex and AIR projects I’ve used lot of custom skinning and styling of original and custom Flex components and I’ve found it very easy. But also there are some curious exceptions and other stuff I like to share with you in this new [...]
This is first example in serie of examples of showcase how to use Text Layout Engine (mainly for Flex 3).
Here is quick description: I need to fit text in rectangle (need it for our Goalscape project). I want to be able to change width, height, font size and text of course.
I’m going to play with Text Layout Engine, which is bundled in Flex 4. But we need to use it in Flex 3 in our Goalscape project. And it’s possible to use Text Layout Engine in Flex 3. All you need to do is download Flex 4 SDK, or Flash Builder and get textLayout.swc from [...]
As Christmas is really near, I’ve created few Christmas Wallpapers for you. You can use them as desktop wallpapers, or send them as Merry Christmas and Happy New Year wishes and cards. If you want to use them in your websites or anywhere else, please give me proper credits and link back to franto.com.
And here [...]
This is old wallpaper, my first one. I’m in state or organizing my wallpapers and this watter lilly wallpaper has not its own post, so I have create one. In its origin post Wallpaper for you there are now all wallpapers. Download Watter Lilly Wallpaper and use as your desktop wallpaper.
Wallpaper for you collection has new wallpaper called Orchid Dream. It is mix of our orchid with blurred images of other orchids. In Photoshop you can do what you want
Here is link for Orchid Dream Wallpaper, download it to your desktop and use it. If you want to use it on your site, [...]
When you want to change your permalinks structure in Wordpress, it’s easy way if your are Wordpress semi-advance user. But there are also Wordpress Newbies, which want to change Wordpress permalinks structure as well. I’ve created small wordpress plugin called Permalinks Changer, which helps you to change you permalinks structure in more friendly way
Few months ago I’ve created site http://filmcomposers.info about Movie Soundtracks Composers, because I like movie soundtracks and music composing (orchestral) (I really love Hans Zimmer work). But site is still not indexed by google…
In last few weeks I’m trying to set up few websites based on Wordpress. I like Wordpress much for few years already (from version 1.5 as far as I remember). Wordpress is still evolving and there are tons of great features and missing features are added by plugins. Again, there are tons of plugins, very [...]
Problems with latest stable Flex 4 nightly buildLoosing children interactivity after setting perspectiveProjectionWordpress plugin Permalinks ChangerNumeric sorting of Flex DataGridColumnMore Google Wave invitations$1000 for Wordpress pluginKseniya Simonova – Sand AnimationGoodbye FlashDen, hello ActiveDenMajor update of Goalscape AIR applicationWhy my sites were not indexed by Google?
