AsFusion

Mate Flex Framework in public alpha

A new Flex framework has been born. Actually, it is not really new, because we've been developing and using this framework for a long time, but it is now available to everybody.

"Mate" (pronounced "mah-teh" like latte) is a tag-based Flex framework that uses implicit invocation to route events to handlers using an "EventMap". Those handlers are a list of actions that is executed when the event is dispatched.

Doug McCune speaking at OC Flex

We are delighted to have Doug McCune coming down from San Francisco to present at OC Flex this Thursday.

Besides being an exceptional Flex developer, Doug is one of the main contributors of FlexLib, a collection of open source Flex components and libraries. It is no surprise then that he will be talking about taking advantage of open source ActionScript libraries to use in your own projects.

The fact is that there is a lot out there that you might not know it exists, or even if you did, you might not know how to use it. Doug will be giving examples of how to use these libraries and even combine them into cool applications. You can find more information at OC Flex's website and Doug's post about the meeting.

This is a meeting not to miss!

Transitions added to Photoshow example

I added some transitions and a progress bar to our Photoshow example.

For the transitions, I wanted the previous image to fade out and the new image to fade in. But in the original code, the image was binding to the currently selected image, so whenever the selected image changed (by clicking on next or previous buttons), the source of the image would change. The biggest problem with this is that if I changed the currently selected image as soon as the user would click the buttons, the image would change without waiting for the fade out to complete. One of the main changes made to the code is that before I can change the source of the image, I need to wait until the previous image has completely faded out. I do this by using the effectEnd event of the Fade effect to know when this happens, and only then make the change in the image source.