7th Sep, 2008

flashmoyo Documentation

We have uploaded some pre-alpha documentation. We will keep updating it with weekly builds. Link added to links.
 

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23rd Jul, 2008

Flash Rotation bug?

After working on a component that is being rotated we came up with this weird issue. After rotating an object, the width and height do not behave as they should.

 
The case

1. We create a box 100×602. We rotate it 90 degrees => 60×1003. We set width to 35 => 35×1004. We set width to 35 [...]

We have decided that parts of flashmoyo, especially the small utilities that we build to use, will be open sourced under the MIT License. Here is the first of this series. We wanted to create the behavior of the scrollbar that windows have. When clicking to an arrow or the scroll track itself, instead of [...]

The problem

I have a nice pc with quad core cpu, 4 graphics cards with 4 22″ wide monitors, really fast disks, 8gb of ram, 4gb ultra fast flash for readyboost etc. My Vista64 on the other hand reminded me the times we were installing windows 95 on super old machines with 2MB of ram, and [...]

16th Jul, 2008

flashmoyo framework model

The flashmoyo framework will offer lightweight components for standalone use or customization, fully implemented cooperative components and a full framework ready for use. The architecture is scalar, so what we are going to do, is build a very light framework called flashmoyo.mini, that will include the basic model for creating components. Using flashmoyo.mini we will [...]

The new Designer Developer workflow seems really promising. Watch the adobe video from how a list box is transformed to a neat control here.
I’m sure we are going to see a huge number of interesting implementations when Flex 4.0 is out.

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15th Jul, 2008

Be part of Gumbo

Adobe has put up a page here where everyone can contribute in Gumbo and win various stuff:

For every 3 bugs where we accept and commit your submitted patch, we will purchase an Adobe-related book from your Amazon wish list (once you’ve had your 3rd patch accepted we’ll reach out to you to find your wish [...]

Today Adobe published a lot of info on Gumbo here. There is a presentation from Matt Chotin regarding the Gumbo plan and some other info in detail.
Highlights:

Design in Mind: provide a framework meant for continuous collaboration between designer and developer.

Developer Productivity: improve compiler performance and add productivity enhancements to language features like data binding

Framework Evolution: [...]

For the past 7 years we have been developing financial applications in Flash using our own custom developed components. It is now our intention to release the arsenal of 120 custom developed components targeting Flash v10. Components for standalone use and the full framework will be released. Our target is to have them available for [...]

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