admin on December 3rd, 2008

On Monday, Huw from SapphireSteel Software, announced the forthcoming release of ‘Amethyst’ – an IDE for Adobe Flex and AIR. Amethyst will come as a free Personal addition or a commercial version (released later). UPDATE: The Beta version is now available for download. Free Personal Edition: “Amethyst Personal is a free Flex/AIR IDE which will [...]

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admin on November 28th, 2008

Whilst working on an update to snippet manager, I was looking for the easiest way to introduce syntax highlighting and came up with one solution. I did not want to write syntax colouring procedures entirely in ActionScript, this seems like a bad idea to me as there are existing highlighting libraries available in JavaScript. So, [...]

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admin on November 22nd, 2008

In this Air/Flex tutorial you will learn how to create a Flex Tree component using data from an external XML file. What we will cover mx:WindowedApplication mx:Script mx:XML mx:HTTPService mx:Panel mx:Tree Custom ActionScript Functions Compiling a Flex Applicaton using amxmlc Testing the AIR/Flex application using adl Prerequisite In order to fully make use of the [...]

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