Using MXML for AIR NativeMenus

Posted by Jacob Wright in AIR, FlexJan 7th, 2008 | 13 Comments NativeMenus for AIR have been somewhat of a pain since each item in a menu can take 3-4 lines of code or more to write once you add the listener, the key shortcuts, etc. Then when you've got 20 items or so you have an unreadable unmanageable mess to deal with. Very unFlexy. So I set about making it work in MXML with the advantages of readability, conciseness, and don't forget bindability. This makes it a much cleaner solution than a component which creates a commonly used menu or using XML data providers to define the menus. First I created a Menu class which extends NativeMenu. Because of the...

AIR Active Record

Posted by Jacob Wright in AIR, ActionScript 3, FlexDec 19th, 2007 | 17 Comments I've been working with AIR quite a bit since my side project is in AIR. I thought it would be pretty cool to create an active record implementation in AIR since I've got one on the server side. I have to use synchronous database connections for it so that everytime I access an object's related properties I don't have to use a callback, though it could be refactored to do that. Not my idea of fun though, and after an excellent presentation by Jason Williams, "Working with Persistent Data in AIR," where he showed how fast it was to retrieve data from an AIR database I figured it would be just fine. Currently...