Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralMay 15th, 2009 | No Comments
Another reason to attend 360|Flex is the Flight Framework will be there. We’ll be doing a workshop-style presentation Tuesday on getting started with Flight. Hope to see you there!
Posted by Jacob Wright in AIR, Flash, FlexMay 14th, 2009 | 3 Comments
I am working with Tyler on Stealth, our high-performance component framework. After reading this article on performance by Arno Gourdol of Adobe I began wondering if we should leave behind our Flash roots of motion and timeline design by defaulting framerate to 0 in our Stealth-based applications.
Framerate makes great sense when doing games or timeline based animations, but in applications do we need it? We can update the screen on mouse moves, roll overs, etc. with the MouseEvent.updateAfterEvent instance method. And for transitions and tweening the class could use a Timer for the duration of...
Posted by Jacob Wright in GeneralMay 1st, 2009 | No Comments
Hooray for the Flex team! They’re coding to interfaces. I’ve been looking through the source of recent Flex 4 code and I have to say, I’m getting excited to use this stuff. Here are a few of the things I’ve found with just a few minutes of going through their code:
IDeferredContentOwner – The current version of Flex has something like this, but much more complex. This interface makes sense, and simply allows the deferred creation of its children when they are needed (such as a ViewStack in the current Flex). Just a couple of properties and it allows the component to...
