franto.com » Flex 4 http://franto.com Mon, 19 Apr 2010 06:19:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Problems with latest stable Flex 4 nightly build http://franto.com/problems-with-latest-stable-flex-4-nightly-build/ http://franto.com/problems-with-latest-stable-flex-4-nightly-build/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:25:53 +0000 admin http://franto.com/?p=1139 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 4 together with Flash Catalyst. Workflow is not ideal (as graphics designer didn’t know about Flash catalyst), but surely it was help (at least for cutting assets :) ). There were few problems, but after month of development and reading some stuff and tutorials on web I want to try use latest stable nightly build. Right now it’s Flex 4.0.0.13875 from 29th of January. So I’ve downloaded and install it to Flash builder.

First, what I’ve found out that namespace mx was change to ns namespace. xmlns:mx=”library://ns.adobe.com/flex/halo”
xmlns:ns=”library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx”

some properties was renamed e.g BitmapImage resizeMode to fillMode, some properties was removed.

But I’ve stuck on 1 problem… from flash.* packages, there is just flash.text.*, all other flash.* packages are not inside. So e.g. I can not use MouseEvent and similar stuff

Does anyone know if I don’t see anything obvious? Does anyone use latest stable nightly build of Flex 4? (I’ve tried also latest nightly build Flex 13963, same problem)

I really want to use it, because I know, there is some important things fixed. Please let me know, if you have how to fix problem

Thank you very much

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Table of contents for Text Layout Engine

  1. Text Layout Engine in Flex 3
  2. Text Layout Engine: Fit text into rectangle
  3. Text Layout Engine: TruncationOptions

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 Flex 4 SDK into your project to libs folder. I’ve played with Flex 4 beta testLayout.swc, but now when Flex 4 beta 2 is released I’ve checked both .swc files and filesize has raised from 326kB to 531kB, so I’m really interested in what was changed or added. I will post about my tests when I will find out anything. So if you are interested in some Text Layout Engine examples, stay tuned.

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