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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 27th, 2008

I recently released an AIR application called ‘Snippet Manager‘ which was build using Flex (in a basic text editor, not Flex Builder). Today I decided to see if it would work on Linux. I’m happy to report snippet manager works just as well as it does in Windows. Here are the steps I used to [...]

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admin on November 25th, 2008

Today Ext LLC, the authors of the popular ExtJS JavaScript Library, released an updated version of Ext.AIR. The update includes many enhancements to sound support, windowing and database. They also include some new features for Ext AIR dealing with notifications, clipboard usage and the file system interactions. Here is a brief introduction to some of [...]

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