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ActionScript 3.0 API’s

Although i said my next post would be about Blogform’s new development path, i happened to stumble across a page containing list of 22 different ActionScript 3.0 API’s today. So since I often forget important links, and maybe someone out there would find this link helpful, here it is: List of 22 ActionScript 3.0 API’s. Basically this page lists up 22 useful API’s like the Adobe API’s, Away3d, Papervision3D, ebay API etc, enjoy!

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New York, Barcelona
& back!

Been a long time since last post, but this summer has been very eventful, both personally and business related. Blogform has just expanded to the US of A, more precisely New York. Since most of our clients are american corporations, the company found it necessary to hire people in the states, so the time difference to the clients wouldn’t have such an impact on our workflow. We hired two new designers / actionscripters along with a PM and a few others, so my colleague Eirik and I where sent to New York in the beginning of August to show the people there the ropes.

The view from my hotel room, at 22nd floor:

I can describe very much of New York with one word: BiG! Everything there was big. Avenues with four lanes (and all one-way!), the normal size Starbucks coffee was half a liter, buildings with less than 20 floors are considered “small” etc. However, i was surprised to see a lot fewer big people than expected, hehe. Anyways, we had 6 nights there and alot of work to be done. Not only was i going to teach the new guys, but at the same time we had to finish of a few client projects before i was going on my week long vacation in Barcelona with my wife. Ergo i didn’t get as much time to explore NYC as i had hoped. But i know there will be a trip or two back there, in the near future.

After the week in New York i flew via Oslo and picked up my wife for some shopping, eating and beach style RnR in Barcelona. A fantastic city. It has everything. Beachlife, nightlife, excellent cuisine, shopping streets, culture and history. Definitely going back there again.

The entrance to our hotel room, spooky no?

Comming back to work we had alot to be done, among a new project we have been working on named “tube the vote”. My next post will be more about this new direction of digtal based magazines we are undergoing. Very exciting!

Lastly, I was at the first meeting of FUGN (Flash User Group Norway) this season, and it was good to see all the regulars attend. I was elected to the board (yay!) among a few others. Looking forward to spending some geek time with you all at Flash On The Beach this year.

Well that’s it for now, will post again soon.

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Extending
EventDispatcher in
Flex Builder 3

Ok, so was working on an AS project in Flex Builder 3, and wanted to write a class that extended EventDispatcher. My class was going to receive an XML and dispatch an event when it had transformed the XML into an array of value objects. Since this class wasn’t going to be on the display list, i thought that extending the EventDispatcher class was a good idea.

I created a new actionScript class in Flex Builder and told it to extend the EventDispatcher. When I looked at the auto generated code in the file there, I scratched my head. This is what it looked like:

   package com.example {

      import flash.events.EventDispatcher;
      import flash.events.IEventDispatcher;

      public class Example extends EventDispatcher {

         public function Example(target:IEventDispatcher=null) {
            super(target);
         }

      }
   }

I was wondering what the target in the constructor was. After some quick research i learned that you only use the EventDispatcher constructor when you have to implement the IEventDispatcher, because you are already extending another class. Therefore i changed my class to look like this instead:

   package com.example {

      import flash.events.EventDispatcher;

      public class Example extends EventDispatcher {

         public function Example() {

         }

      }
   }

This wouldn’t have been an issue if i had just written it in TextMate, but because i used Flex Builders auto generating code, i had to investigate what was happening.

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My first post!

Well, here we are, my first post. I have been thinking about setting up my own web/blog page for a long time now, and I’m very happy to have finally done so. There is an expression saying “a good designer never has time to make his own presentation”, but alas, i managed to have the time. =)

The point of this site is going to be a presentation of my work, tutorials, learning experiences  and presenting things that intrigue me in the fields of design, actionscripting  an so on. But first i will have to set up the rest of the page. Firstly I’ll be writing more about myself in the “About” page, then ill start populating my portfolio page. So… “High ho Silver…. away!!”

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