Not just eye-candy, but useful too.
Saffron is an AIR-based UML app that looks phenomenal.
You’ll also find a good-looking showcase of Flex/AIR apps over at scalenine. I’m amazed at the creativity and concern for the user shown in Flex and AIR apps.
Design is important, just look at the iPod [i don't have an iPhone .. yet .. so ... :)]. AIR+Flex make it easy and enjoyable to tackle both design and functionality.
Here’s a little widget we just finished up that shows our international audience:
This is the total number of people from each country that’s using the SearchCoders/Dashboard. It’s great to see so many people around the world using and working with Flex and Apollo. It’s also fun to chat with people all over the world. So download the app and drop in for a chat.
I’m happy to announce the release of my syntax highlighting library written in ActionScript 3. It’s released under a BSD license, so have at it.
I wrote this library for the SearchCoders/Dashboard. It’s used in the chatrooms so that geeks can send each other pieces of code and have that code show up nicely colored and styled, just the way we like it ;) You can easily add a language to parse some other type of content that is not currently supported. And it’s based on the language grammar definition that TextMate uses, so you can bring your own definitions from there instead of having to figure out how to write them on your own.
Here’s an example:
Here’s a screen cap:
The project home page is here:
http://labs.searchcoders.com/text/
Tom and I will be releasing additional components and libraries that we wrote for the Dashboard. We want to support the use and development of these projects so I will be setting up SVN and a bug tracking system. For the moment, download the library’s zip file and post any bugs, comments, questions, and suggestions to this blog. Or, drop by the SearchCoders/Dashboard chatroom and chat with us.
Enjoy!
Today tom and I released the next version of our apollo app and it’s awesome. you should check it out:
http://labs.searchcoders.com/dashboard/demo/
There’s a screencast and instructions for how to download it.
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I’ve been using acompc to compile an apollo swc. I ran the command line compiler using the syntax they specify in their official docs:
acompc -load-config myLib-config.xml -output lib/myLib.swc
Then I’d get this error:
The definition of base class Object was not found.
Yikes!
The answer is easy, but I didn’t see it because it was late and I was just kinda copying and pasting (shame on me). You want to add a “+” sign to your -load-config command so that you don’t clobber previous configs, specially the apollo-config.xml. So, the command should read like this:
acompc -load-config+=myLib-config.xml -output lib/myLib.swc
Ah, Adobe’s agressive release of alphas takes me back to the days of Borland Turbo C and Turbo Pascal. And those early versions weren’t officially “alphas”.
Happy coding.
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