This is so easy. I made a succesful AMFPHP multi file upload wich I’m using in my new release of the Rive.be CMS (clear your browser cache), by using this as a base. You can read all about it at Gertons’s blog (single file upload) and the Flex{er} blog (his multi file example didn’t work). So in the end if you throw these 2 examples together (merge them somehow) you should end up with a working solution.

Basically you have enough with these 2 snippets to upload any file you wish to a AMFPHP backend. More …

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After I implemented the Flash Platform Ditribution Service into my Flex 4 web application at the Rive.be CMS Share Page. I decided to try it on to a pure Actionscript 3 project. Visit http://www.rive.be and click the Share button in the bottom right side of your screen.

Everything works out just great (try it out):

• Post an embedded preview into Facebook, Live Spaces, iGoogle, etc.
• Share a link in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
• Email the link to any of your More …

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There is just so much setting up to do with PureMVC, and enough is enough. Every time again, and again…The constants, the viewComponent wrapper, listNotificationInterests, handleNotification, there’s tons of stuff to do when setting up a Mediator.

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The Rive.be CMS Flex web application has received an upgrade. Using the new Flash Builder software, I’ve now build it upon the new Flex 4 SDK. Wherever possible, the Halo (mx namespace) components have changed to Spark (s namespace) components.

The biggest improvements for me in adapting to this new Flex SDK? State handling, transition effects, preloading rsl’s, declarations, TextLayout Framework, Itemrenders, etc. This page helped me a lot: Differences between Flex 3 and Flex 4 beta (updated for beta 2)

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3 great new Adobe technologies you should try out. They’re listed on http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/services/

I’ve played arround with all 3 of them in the passed 2 days. One of which I’ve implemented yesterday. The Flash Platform Distribution Service.

If you go to http://www.rive.be/cms/#/Share you’ll see it working. Thanks to the Adobe Distribution Manager I’m tracking every sharing activity as we speak.

What I didn’t like about it, is the slowness of initializing the Gigya widget. It really should be improved. The whole Flex application hangs for a couple of seconds.

Also the Adobe Distribution Manager feels a bit like alpha versioned software. I can’t specify my application width’s and height’s in percentages. I can’t save all my settings, can’t delete unused applications, and several other usability issues.

All 3 of these services are worth checking out, there’s a bunch of settings to play/tweak arround with.

1. http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/services/distribution/
2. http://www.adobe.com/flashplatform/services/collaboration/
3. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/social/

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I know, I’m too late, as we all have seen the new TextLayout framework by now. But maybe the “dummy level” of this class will come in handy for other some small projects.

See an example of the SubSuperTextField wrapper class or download the Flex Archive

This class scans your text for the valid xhtml <sub> or sup> tags, and will replace that part by a special embedded font for superscript and subscript. Just use it as you would use any other TextField object.

You’ll only have to pass a style Object in the constructor containing a reference of the embedded font of your choice.

Tip: Checkout the “Fixing jumpy htmltext links” TextField wrapper class of Tomek too…

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I made some new custom AMFPHP Service classes for the GeSHi – Generic Syntax Highlighter & Google Analytics API.

Which is very nice, because now I can do superclean datahandling in my Flex Backend application. You can already have a look at the first result in an animated PieChart component on the dashboard page. It’s showing More …

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There were already some earlier existing solutions & examples on the web. Only some days ago I had to do an estimation for a customer who wanted a facebook “send to a friend” etc. We came to the conclusion that it was very buggy, and not able to use for customers.

With this new API it should be a piece of cake and always stay nicely up to date with the fast evolving Facebook platform. Check it out, because it’s one which the customers will demand a lot in their future projects I’m affraid ;)

BTW: The new Tour de Flex is also out now.

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Thanks to a good friend of mine Wim Van Buynder, I got to hear about this great tool. This you really should have to check out whenever you have freetime on your hands! It’ll save you a lot of time…

PureMVC Console of Kap Lab

It provides deep insights on what happens at the framework level: Notifications, Commands, Mediators and Proxies.
PureMVC is a highly recognized MVC framework, that has also many portages in various languages, and that’s now quite widely in Flex applications, though not as much as Cairngorm.

Really check it out

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When developping from Flex Builder you’ll have had this following situation propably more then once. No, not the situation in the photo, that’s just the new official Firefox logo…

Try to focus now…in Firefox you can have +100 tabs open with the same compiled Flex or AS3 project running. Taking up memory.

You can refresh the tab every time when you change the code, but then you loose your debugging mode. So, what should we do? Do what the cat would do…make your life more comfortable!

1. Open Firefox and type about:config in to the address bar.
2. Click the “I’ll Be Careful I Promise” button.
3. Use the filter bar and type in browser.link
4. Set browser.link.open_external to 1
   

Now every time you compile your project in Firefox, you’ll use the same existing active tab in Firefox. Saved me already a lot of time. Thanks to this article!

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