Posts Tagged ‘ Flex ’

Setting up the Ultimate Flash Development Environment

This guide explains how to set up a Flash and Flex development environment with Eclipse, FDT, Flash Builder and a couple of other editors that you want for ActionScript coding and Flash development with style! This guide is based on Windows because that’s what I’m using but I’m sure you Mac and Linux guys can [ READ MORE ]

Setting up Eclipse for Flash Developers

  • April 12th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

I’ve been using Eclipse and FDT for several years now to develop Flash (and Flex) applications but I never really managed to set up Eclipse to exactly fit my needs. Either some desired tools were missing or I installed plug-ins that slowed down Eclipse with a truck load of stuff that I never need. So today [ READ MORE ]

Alcon 3.1 Update

  • April 5th, 2009
  • Posted in Dev

Although Alcon version 4 is currently under development I’ve decided to release a small update for Alcon 3, version 3.1 since I’ve received a code signing certificate from Adobe and wanted to keep up with re-releasing the now-signed application on the AIR Market Place. Besides that Alcon is now code-signed there is exactly one new feature [ READ MORE ]

Customizing toString()

  • September 8th, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

When writing classes for a framework I usually put a custom toString method into important classes so that debugging becomes easier. Normally they would go like something along the lines of: override public function toString():String { return "[ClassName]"; } … Sometimes adding properties to the returned String that give back information about the class, e.g. override public function toString():String { return [ READ MORE ]

Alcon 3 Out Now!

  • August 25th, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

It took longer than expected thanks to obstacles like a crashed harddisk and other minorities in between but it’s finally done and I now can announce the immediate availability of Alcon 3! It runs currently on Windows and Mac and hopefully soon on Linux too. When I tested it on Ubuntu it installed and started [ READ MORE ]

Alcon 3 Preview

  • August 21st, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

Since so many of you (well, at least four people) are feverishly waiting for the release of Alcon 3 here’s a preview screenshot to comfort your waiting time. The shot shows Alcon’s trace output panel with some bogus Array being traced iteratively and as a hex dump. the top of the window displays Alcon’s new [ READ MORE ]

Announcing Alcon 3

  • July 23rd, 2008
  • Posted in Dev

Alcon 3 is in the works! The new version is being written for Adobe AIR and that means no more hackish OS integration! Thanks to AIR the debugging tool will run nice and smooth on any supported OS and it will restore your windows size and position where you last left it, Stay On Top [ READ MORE ]

Font Creation with Flex

  • May 18th, 2008
  • Posted in Design

Fontstruct is an online font creator whose editor has been obviously developed with Flex. Users can register and design their own fonts which are made available for download. Looks slick! [ READ MORE ]

ActionScript3 Dice Class

In game development randomness is often necessary for certain tasks, be it the random distribution of graphic tiles, a random factor in NPC AI or random stats in a roleplaying game. Especially for the latter purpose the static Dice class provides a set of methods to roll dice as it is common in a Role-playing [ READ MORE ]

Container bug in Flex3 beta2

  • October 19th, 2007
  • Posted in Dev

Makes me wonder why nobody else has yet written anything about this bug ... when using any container component like for example a Panel or TitleWindow with a different borderStyle than the default[ READ MORE ]

AIR application: FEAT (Freelancer’s Estimation Assistance Tool)

  • August 29th, 2007
  • Posted in Misc

I finally came to play a bit more with AIR and it’s specific features and wrote a small tool that is helpful for freelancers like you and me to make pricing estimation calculations. With FEAT you can calculate your hourly rate based on your expenses and some other factors and it provides a wizard to [ READ MORE ]

Using Flex 2 for GameDev Middleware

While the whole world is hyping Rich Internet Applications, I’m sitting here in my lab and could not bother less! Flex is really neat and who says that it’s only useful for shopping- or flight-ticket booking systems?! Nobody? Good! I’m using Flex to develop my game development Middleware, i.e. editors like the TileSetTool that I’m [ READ MORE ]