Prompted by this post, I’ve been working on a tool that uses jsduck and Adobe AIR to create the SDOCML necessary for Aptana code hinting. Specifically I’ve been playing with EXTJS 4.0 becuaseof some interest in Sencha. In the near future I’ll post the SDOCML files that I’ve created for the code hinting and once [...]
Mobile Flex: View Data
From the previous post you should know how to navigate from 1 view to the next using the ViewNavigator. Now, you want some data in that view right? No problem, this is where the View object’s ‘data‘ property comes into play. Setting the data property is accomplished by passing the data object, in addition to [...]
Mobile Flex: ViewNavigator Basics
Flex 4.5 provides some pretty slick updates and enhancements, the least of which is the of Mobile components and the ability to slam out some pretty nice mobile apps easily. The first thing I’d like to talk about is a new concept, the ViewNavigator. The ViewNavigator provides some pretty intense functionality such as view management. What [...]
OSMF Custom Media Elements
A good argument for using a framework is the ability to extend the built in capabilities of the framework. For example, there was a comment on the ‘Getting Sstarted with OSMF Plugins‘ post that asked about using embedded images in theWatermarkPlugin sample. Here are the steps that I took to get an embedded asset (instead [...]
Getting started: OSMF Plugins
In the past media players have had a problem. They all have custom implementations. When building a media player the developer encounters multiple services to load content, track analytics & quality of service information as well as handle advertising & custom user interactions among other things. The Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) provides a solution to these [...]
