Top 3 reasons why Adobe decide to discontinue further support for Adobe AIR for desktop Linux® - Blog - PlanetRIA

Top 3 reasons why Adobe decide to discontinue further support for Adobe AIR for desktop Linux® - Blog - PlanetRIA:

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RTMP Data Push From .NET to Flex | Midnight Coders

RTMP Data Push From .NET to Flex | Midnight Coders:

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Displaying icons in a Spark ButtonBar control in Flex 4 | Flex Examples

Here is good example of Spark Buttonbar Control Skinning with dynamic image.


Displaying icons in a Spark ButtonBar control in Flex 4 | Flex Examples:

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Flex 3 + Custom Scroll Bar Using CSS

There are times when I fight and fight the interface in flex. This happens when you embed components within other components and those components are in other containers like HBox, VBox, Canvas, or any other container… Also say your using ViewStacks, and you throw that into the mix, and all the sudden you have a screen with for or 5 vertical or horizontal scroll bars in it.

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I usually fiddle with the contraints and end up getting it to work out well enough for me so I don’t end up having scroll bars on my page unless it’s not viewed at full screen.

Most of the applications we make are geared toward internal high end corporate usage. There may be only be one department of a company working with the application we made, and then we make another totally different application for a different department. So it’s not like the screen has to be made to fit all of these different screen resolutions, and all the like. We can usually gear toward a standard 1024 x 768 resolution. But we try to make our applications resize with the browser to some extent.

In which case you use a lot of percentages and contraint based layout… and sometimes you simply can’t help but see some scroll bars… and usually after skinning and application the standard flex scroll bar tends to stand out in an application and makes it look not so “friendly on the eyes” as I like to say.

So here is a way to skin the scroll bar and make it look a little more friendly.

I would love to thank the Flex Show, and also the Flex 2 Style Explorer. That tool is a god send, and if you haven’t seen it, check it out herehttp://examples.adobe.com/flex2/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex2StyleExplorer.html

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Source : http://www.axelscript.com/2008/02/20/custom-scroll-bar-using-css/

Flex + How display icons in a spark buttonbar

Here is very useful link for displaying Icons on Buton Bar.

http://blog.flexexamples.com/2009/07/28/displaying-icons-in-a-spark-buttonbar-control-in-flex-4/

Flex - Tool Tip Style

Here is simple example how we customize the Tooltip in flex base application.

Code.

Enjoy :)

Flex : ComboBox with icon support.

Here is a great example of how showing the Icon in Combobox with label.

Flex 2.0.1 ComboBox with icon support. « Flexible Experiments:


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Adobe AIR : 30 Apps for Designers and Developers

Billing & Invoicing Tools

Klok - Klok allows you to not only track time by clients and projects, but what kind of work you do for each. You can also manage contact information for clients, edit time spent and a slew of other features.
Ora Time and Expense - Ora will help you generate timesheets, expense reports and invoices.
Timeloc - Does everything you could ask of a time keeper such as manage multiple clients and jobs, edit the billing so you see a running tally of how much a job has earned you, add notes to a billing period and a whole lot more.
Vertabase Timer - Allows you to track time by clients or by project.

Color & Pattern Tools

Color Browser - Allows you to import color palettes you have created elsewhere, create new ones locally, and put as many colors as you like into any you create.
COLOURlovers Desktop Color Finder - This app will let you search the COLOURlovers database for an astonishing 1 million named colors and more than 300,000 user created color palettes.
Kuler Desktop - This app allows you to browse and choose color palettes for any project you're working on. When you've picked one you like, you can then import it to Creative Suite 3 Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
Random Patter - Allows you to render patterns based on set parameters and then save as an XML document, and images can be saved as an SVG document.

Design Tools

Alcon - A debugging tool for users of ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3.
BetaDesigns Caliper - This tool floats above your other applications so that you can measure any item on your screen.
designview - Gives you the ability to use Flex Builder Design View.
Dojo Toolbox - A toolbox to work along with the open source Dojo JavaScript tools. Allows you to view your work, cross-reference, use the build tool and a whole lot more.
e2vector illustration app. - Allows you to create new images and export them to SVG, or you can import existing ones to work on.
htmlText Editor - A WYSIWYG editor for htmlText that allows you to design visually for Flex.
Icon Generator - Allows you to generate icons in three steps for CS3 or Web 2.0 style. All icons are generated as 128x128, 48x48, 32x32 and 16x16.
pixDIF - Allows you to measure pixel differences easily between comps and design implementations.
Pixus - Allows you to easily measure the size of a screen object, set size presets, preview your design and more.
Shrink O' Matic - Drag your JPGs, GIFs and PNGs into the app and then resize them as one batch.

Miscellaneous Tools

.merlin - A manager for fonts that will make sure they are named correctly, sort them into folders by letter, allow you to delete duplicates and more.
Balsamiq Mockups For Desktop Demo - An application for designing mockups of software before going to coding. Teams can work in real time on a project and it also integrates with Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA and XWiki.
ConceptShare Desktop Companion - A web tool that allows you to create workspaces for a project and then share it with others so you can collaborate on the project.
LibraryManager - Allows you to dump SWF files, see the class information, create information and compare versions.
QR Code generator for mobile tagging - Helps you generate QR codes for your sites and projects.
QuickLoader - Allows for quick uploading and downloading of files from any PHP enabled server. You can define multiple users with different folders, as well as browse & modify files on your server. Has several other features such as an image editor.
Simple Flash Filter Generator - Allows you to generate flashfilters and code in real time.
SlideRocket Player - Allows you to make offline presentations of your work and set up a marketplace to sell more services.  Also will allow you to sync with your desktop to make offline presentations, but this requires a paid account.
Snippely - Allows you to store, label and organize various snippets of code in one centralized location on your system.
SQLFury - Aids you in testing an SQL database for possible injection vulnerabilities.

Screencapture Tools

Snapshooter - Enter a valid URL and this app will take a snapshot of the web page to save to your system locally.
SWFShot - Allows you to capture Flash images as JPGs or PNGs in huge screen sizes.
WebKut - A website screen capture tool that allows you to capture the entire page, the viewable area or just a selection.
Websnapshot - Simply enter or drag the URL of that page you want to snapshot from your browser.  Select thumbnail, browser size or full page, and it is saved to your gallery.

Adobe AIR : 20 Great AIR Apps for Photos & Videos

Photo

Albelli Photo Book Creator - Assists you in creating photo books from images on your hard drive or from online resources such as Flickr, Smugmug, Photobucket and Picasa.
CleVR Stitcher - An easy way of joining photos into a panorama by just dropping in all of the required photos. Allows you to correct exposures, add tags, make hot spots that are interactive and more.
DestroyFlickr - DestroyFlickr is all about finding other ways to view Flickr photos that emphasize the photos, and not what is around them. You can view on a dark background, keep a history of where you have been that is easy to navigate and a lot more.
Flickr Flipper - Allows you to search all of Flickr, or just the images of a specific user. Also gives you the ability to download any images you come across that you like.
FotoBooth 2 with Pixel Bender - This app works in conjunction with your web cam to share images on Flickr, and also incorporates Pixel Bender to add effects to those images.
ImageDropr - A simplified method for uploading images to Flickr: drag the images onto the app, add tags, click upload. Can't get much easier than that.
Jigsawlite - Quick and easy way to make a jigsaw puzzle game out of any photo. Simply drag it into the app and it will take care of the rest for you.
OrbitZoom - Drop a picture into the program and zoom in on sections, pan around, and get to know your pictures better.
PhotoTable - A great way of collecting images you find on the Web that you like. Simply drag them out of your browser onto the app and they are saved there until you decide to get rid of them.

Picasa Image Browser - Browse public images from Picasa and save the ones you like to your own hard drive.
Shrink O'Matic - Ever needed to resize several images at the same time? This bulk resizer will take the tedium out of the process for you.
Splashup Light - A simple photo editor for computers that includes effects such as levels, contrast/brightness, hue saturation, text editing and shapes.
StudioCloud PSG (Proofing, Sales, and Gallery Manager) - A perfect tool for photographers of all levels. You can change the images inside the app to please the customer, crop, take orders, organize your work and more.
Webcam to GIF - Allows you to easily take images with your webcam and convert them into an animated GIF for use in forums and so on.

Video

Adobe Media Player - Adobe Media Player allows you to download your favorite TV content, play it while offline, track future episodes and more.
DeskTube - DeskTube is a desktop client for YouTube that allows you to view, search, comment, upload and even download the video you are currently viewing.
Doppelganger - An easy video download app that only requires you drag the link for a video into it to start the download. Currently only supports YouTube.

FLVPlay HD -This app allows you to play local or remote flv and MP4 videos as well as search YouTube from your desktop and play them inside the application.
RichFLV - RichFLV allows you to edit FLV files and do things such as read flv metadata, cut flvs, convert the sound of the flv to MP3 and more.
SideShow - A simple player built just for the playback of flv video files.
Xe-MoviePlayer - A full featured video player that will play F4V, MP4, M4V, M4A, MOV, Mp4v, 3gp, 3g2 and flv files. You can also stretch the video to Fullscreen, copy screenshot to the clipboard and more.
YouTube Widget - Allows you to browse Top Rated, Top Favorites and browse more from each member right in the widget.

Miscellaneous

Bookmash - Bookmash does a little bit of everything by searching for videos (Daily Motion, Metacafe, YouTube), music (Last.fm and Seeqpod), photos from Flickr, news from Digg and a lot more, all from one easy interface.
uvLayer - A desktop counterpart to the web app of the same name.  Manipulate your media as you like with a simple drag and drop interface, and then you can share your creations via the web or with your friends on AIM, Facebook, GaduGadu, GTalk, MSN and Yahoo!.

Enjoy :)

Adobe AIR : 8 Apps that DON’T Suck

Adobe AIR is having quite a buzz at the moment around the internet. They are trying to bring more of the web directly on to your desktop, and they seem to be having quite a successful time achieving this. AIR actually stands for “Adobe Integrated Runtime”, and this article looks at some of the best free applications using AIR. If you have no idea what this Adobe AIR thing is all about, you can simply think of it as a program that allows you to run certain web services like desktop programs. In most cases this results in faster and better looking user interface.

1. Google Analytics

Google Analytics has to be one of the most popular AIR tools out there. Google Analytics is one of the most used traffic analysis tools and this desktop AIR version allows you to do everything as if it were on the web, but a little quicker. You can learn more about it from Mark O’Neill’s article here.

2. Ebay Desktop

eBay Desktop – With all the amazing features already found on eBay, this desktop version will blow you away. It has a much slicker and simplified search tool and design. Download it here.
For other eBay goodies see Shop Like a PRO: 7 Tools to Crack eBay

3. Finetune

Finetune – Finetune has to be one of the most impressive music tools in the marketplace at present. It lies somewhere between highly customizable radio and music discovery service. By using Finetune you can build music playlists based on your artist preferences, listen to your playlists from the desktop and share playlists with others. You can also browse and tune-in to any 500.000 + playlists created by other users.

If you’re an iTunes user, the AIR application can instantly lookup the artists in your music library and create Finetune playlist for each of them. Download it here.

4. AOL – Top 100 Music Videos

AOL Top 100 is the desktop widget featuring the top 100 most watched music videos across many genres including Pop, Rock & Alternative, Hip Hop, Country and Latin. Watch music videos in full screen or standard mode. Found video you like? You can easily bookmark and watch them whenever you want. Although there is one major problem with this widget, about 15-20% of videos don’t work.

5. WebKut

Webkut is a simple AIR application that lets you capture web pages, or parts of them in a matter of seconds. There are 3 capture options: the entire page, the current view, or custom selection. If you take web screenshots on a regular basis then this app is for you.

6. Xdrive @ Desktop Lite

Xdrive is an online storage service from AOL. Now available from your desktop. This lightweight desktop tool allows you to drag’n drop (upload/download) files and folders between your Xdrive web storage and desktop. Backup important files online, share photos with friends, share documents with colleagues, etc.

7. Pownce

Pownce offers a simple way to communicate with friends. Send mid-sized files, share interesting links, post messages, and announce upcoming events. Can be accessed both from the web or via this simple desktop client.

8. TWhirl (Twitter App)

Twhirl – Twhirl brings Twitter to your desktop. It delivers new Tweets directly to your dektop. No more refreshing of your Twitter home page, Twhirl is the way to go. See also Mark’s previous coverage of TWhirl @ Tools and Apps to Improve Twitter Experience. Interested in TWhirl? Download it here.

Other Interesting Adobe AIR Apps

• DiggTop – Simple Digg client.
• Color Browser – This tool is great for designers. Pick the colors, save them, go back to reference what you’ve one in the past and what you’re currently working on.
• NASDAQ – Get insight into extremely detailed trading activity in the market at any time during the day.
• StockQ – Stream latest stock quotes to your desktop. No brokerage account login or authentication required. You can set it to auto refresh every 1sec – 5mins.
• NetBook – Desktop client for Project Gutenberg Library. Lets you search, read and listen to PGL books.
• Klok – Slim task manager and project time tracker.