Monthly Archives: August 2010

Best HTML5 And CSS3 Frameworks

Posted on August 26, 2010 by tmh

http://www.webdesignish.com/best-html5-and-css3-frameworks.html HTML5 And CSS3 Frameworks is what can make your job easier with structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. Features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe … Continue reading →

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Enabling Keyboard Support in UIComponent

Posted on August 16, 2010 by tmh

http://insideria.com/2009/08/flex-components-101—enabling-keyboard-support-in-uicomponent.html If you ever build your own custom components that extend UIComponent, you’ll no doubt run into this scenario… Even if you add event listeners for keyboard events, or if you override the keyDownHandler function, you may find that your … Continue reading →

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Using Papervision as a Component in Flex (MXML)

Posted on August 9, 2010 by tmh

 http://daflash.com/using-papervision-as-a-component-in-flex.html It may come in handy at times to take advantage of all the UI components in Flex to manipulate a 3d scene in Papervision. In this example I add a Papervision component that renders a sphere to the applications … Continue reading →

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Getting Started with Adobe Flex (MXML) and Away3D

Posted on August 9, 2010 by tmh

http://www.switchonthecode.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-adobe-flex-and-away3d Here on the blog we are always looking for new technologies to play around with and I seem to have found one that I am going to be spending some time playing with, Away3D (a 3D Flash engine). Personally, … Continue reading →

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Set Up Papervision 2.0 for Flex 3 (MXML) in 3 Minutes Flat

Posted on August 9, 2010 by tmh

http://blog.pekpongpaet.com/2008/09/18/set-up-papervision-20-for-flex-3-in-3-minutes-flat/ Anybody who knows me knows that I’m all about quick and dirty, get it done, up and running and worry about it later. I don’t like to waste time and I’m sure you don’t either. If you want to … Continue reading →

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Easy Papervision3D skybox tutorial and source

Posted on August 8, 2010 by tmh

http://blog.projectnibble.org/2009/05/22/easy-papervision3d-skybox-tutorial-and-source/ // < ![CDATA[ swfobject.embedSWF("http://projectnibble.org/dump/blog/papervision3d_skybox/Skyboxtutorial.swf", "swf20a11", "300", "300", "9.0.0", "", {}, {wmode: "window", menu: "false", quality: "high", bgcolor: "#000000"}, {}); // ]]> Adding a skybox in Papervision3D is extremely easy. I couldn’t find a whole lot of examples/tutorials about skyboxes … Continue reading →

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Core Flex 4 – Element vs Children

Posted on August 8, 2010 by tmh

http://www.billdwhite.com/wordpress/?p=296 When I started using Flex 4 I tried to get up to speed by using the new version in a manner similar to its predecessor until I came across roadblocks or when I determined I was able to take … Continue reading →

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