That’s it the new version of Adobe Flex is here and with it the new AIR 1 runtime, for details visit Mike Potter’s post. Congrats to all the people involved in this release Adobe is really pushing its open source side by making the Flex compilers source available.
Be sure to check Flex SDK page on Adobe Open Source and the product pages of Flex 3 and AIR 1.
Monthly Archive for February, 2008
I usually don’t mix things up and use this blog only to flash related things but I’m very happy to announce that New Web Pick has launched the Number 14 Issue of their Ezine, that includes an interview they did to your friendly neighbor Dave Gamez related to my work as an Illustrator. So be sure to check it out and buy it, there is a free version of it, but it’s worth every penny so get yourself the Full Issue and check out Page N0. 440.






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Drawing API and Mouse Events
Click on the image to see the example and get the code.
A pair of days ago I found the blog of Sorin Haidan in wish he post some very useful tutorials on Flash and Actionscript 3.0 in a very understandable way, I found one that caught my attention called Draw Custom shapes with ActionScript 3.0. In this tutorial he explains how to make a “Ball” appear on screen every time you click and move your mouse on the screen by using the Drawing API and MouseEvents, the change of the color on the ball was achieved doing a loop in a 10 frame movie clip with a ball of different gradient fill on each frame, so occurred to me to wrap that code on a class on a Flex 3 Actionscript Project and get rid of the Flash assets by drawing the ball in a dynamic way and this let me Change the color of the Ball more than the 10 times of Sorin example, so check the example be sure to check Sorin’s blog .
In my example if you right click on the file you get to see the source that it’s also included below this text here’s what I got: Drawing API Ball Example.
Thanks Sorin for letting me mess around with his code keep up with those good tutorials.