Flex 1.5 trial version can be downloaded from macromedia.com. This trial version would be fully functional for sixty days and after that it would be converted to IP limited developer version.
Download it now, its loaded with many new features...
Download link: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/trial/
Larry Osterman has been working in Microsoft for last twenty years. This is really long period, after seeing his interview on MSDN-Channel 9 forums I am inspired. He says, Microsoft has everything a programmer would ever want to do, be it a game programming, be it device drivers programming, be it a OS programming etc.
I agree, if a company has so many things going in there and I have a freedom to choose things I want to do, I am going to stay there. I find Macromedia is kinda of place, we have freedom to move between roles and kind of work. I have seen people in Macromedia who has worked on different products, on different roles.
I wish, I could also give such an interview after some years and Macromedia becomes as huge as Microsoft is today :).
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Interview Link: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=27667
Macromedia Flex is gaining popularity in Rich Internet Application’s market. In past one month, I have seen some real cool Flex based RIAs.
Some of them are:-
Ofoto Photo Books - Application requires login.
Ofoto Photo Calendars - Application requires login.
BRIDGEWERX Designer - Demo video
Application Examples - listed on macromedia.com
Among these, I find “BRIDGEWERX Designer” the coolest. I have learnt from my experience that making an application, where user can interact many ways, is challenging and complex. “BRIDGEWERX Designer” is one of such RIA.
I am not only sure but also confident that more and more companies and developers would embrace Flex because of standards based development, rich class/component library and importantly Flash player platform.
Well, we should not forget Flash which is also one of the best tools to make RIAs..But I would prefer Flex for large and enterprise class RIAs.
BTW! Kevin Lynch, Chief Software Architect at Macromedia, demonstrated some of the features of next generation Flash Player during macromedia flash conference in tokyo, japan. Colin Moock captured the entire presentation in his cam-corder. Can’t wait to see? watch it here.
Whatever I do, I love Flash :)
I am going to give a simple example using TextField.StyleSheet.transform(..). This is used to extend the CSS parsing capability. For example, “leading” is not parsed by CSS parser in Flash Player. Let’s make an example for the same.
First we would extend TextField.StyleSheet by creating a subclass(StyleSheetEx) and overriding it’s transform method.
import TextField.StyleSheet;
class StyleSheetEx extends TextField.StyleSheet {
// override the transform method function transform(style:Object):TextFormat { var _fmt:TextFormat = super.transform(style); for (var z in style) { if (z == “leading”) { _fmt.leading = style[z]; delete style[z]; break; } } for(var i in _fmt) { trace(i + “ : “ + _fmt[i]); } return _fmt; } } // end class definition
` `
p {
leading:10; font-style:italic; font-family:arial; text-decoration:none; }
` `
import StyleSheetEx;
this.createTextField(“_txt”,this.getNextHighestDepth(), 50,50, 400,200); _txt.multiline = true; _txt.html = true; _txt.wordWrap = true; _txt.text = “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Nunc erat est, dapibus id, porttitor a, nonummy nec, augue. Vivamus non felis. Quisque posuere, est et iaculis convallis, felis eros tempor lectus, vel tempor dolor diam quis nisl. Donec tincidunt pellentesque leo. Donec eget nisl. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Morbi sit amet arcu ac magna elementum tristique. Nam fermentum.”;
var _css:TextField.StyleSheet = new StyleSheetEx();
_css[“owner”] = this; _css.onLoad = function(bSuccess) {
this.owner._txt.styleSheet = this;
}
_css.load(“style.css”);
You can also see demo this example.
Create above files with code and test it. I hope, “leading” works for you also. I know there could be many better ways, as I can see many enhancements in the above code. Please feel free to suggest.
No I was not part of this trip, I missed it...
Most of the people from our group went to this trip and they really enjoyed it. They could enjoy more if it would have been a sunny day...
Manish has some photos & videos on his new blog.
I will also be posting pictures soon, yup! I am playing with my camera lately.
I didn’t know that Macromedia: The Story presentation is online, I came to know while looking at Kevin Lynch’s blog.
If you are curious to know that how Macromedia started and progressed over the years. Look at the story.
Finally, macromedia.com has some space for Macromedia India :)
Keep looking at this page for job openings in Macromedia India or other updates.
http://www.macromedia.com/go/india/
Google is the best(IMO) search engine. Now they have released Google Desktop software, which searches local file system and believe me its many times faster than window’s built-in search. Its indexing algorithm is just superb which makes searching very fast. Google Desktop runs as a local server and keep indexing file system in background.
I am finding it cool...get it here.
Naba Kumar, one of the popular guys in Linux community, has a blog. I got to know this while a little YIM chat to Naba.
Those who doesn’t know much about him, he is the founder and lead developer of famous Anjuta IDE project.
Another news which made me happy, that he is getting married on Oct 25, 2004. Entire community should wish and congratulate him.