If you are interested in generating UML and/or AS3 code you might want to take a look at the following tools. The price tags range from $0 to $239. Cairngen – Free http://www.ericfeminella.com/blog/cairngen This tool provides AS3 code generation for Cairngorm based Flex projects. You’ll need to have Ant installed and know how to run [...]

Here is a cool tip from Programming Flex 2. This code is from a Flex 3 project. I believe the syntax is the same for both versions of Flex. Notice that the repeatCount attribute in the Sequence component definition is set to 0. This will repeat the Effect until you call the end() method on [...]

Announcing “kannopy – AIR Application Development and Consulting”. This exciting new company will focus on application development using the Adobe Integrated Runtime. kannopy should be officially open for business sometime in early 2008. In addition to pure AIR app dev kannopy will also offer high end experience and UI design for Flex and AIR applications. [...]

Delving deeper into the ActionScript 3.0 API research I present the Odeo API Example. Full source available. Use of TileList with drop-in ItemRenderer. Parallels for animation and the search text field has a real time “web 2.0″ reflection. A little bit of Flash CS3 to Flex communication going on here too. This application should probably [...]

Here is an example that demonstrates how to control the timeline of an SWF that was published with Flash CS3 from AS3 code in a Flex project. The Flash CS3 based SWF is set to publish for Flash Player 9 and uses ActionScript 3.0. The SWF is loaded into Flex using a SWFLoader control. Once [...]