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Category Archives: Flex

Tomcat Launcher using AIR Native Process API — Update for AIR 2 GA

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: June 17, 2010
I updated my “Tomcat Launcher” sample application for AIR 2.0 GA. “Tomcat Launcher” allows you to start / stop Tomcat and view the standard output log without opening a DOS box or Terminal window. It also allows you to open that log in your default Text Editor which is another new feature of AIR 2.0 [...]
Posted in Flex | 2 Comments

“AIR 2 Excel” Sample App Updated for AIR 2 GA

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: June 17, 2010
I updated the “AIR 2 Excel” sample application for the official AIR 2 launch. “AIR 2 Excel” demonstrates different techniques for AIR/Excel integration, including the new AIR 2 File.openWithDefaultApplication() API.
Also posted in Air | 8 Comments

“Voice Notes” Updated for AIR 2 GA

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: June 16, 2010
To mark the official release of AIR 2, I’m upgrading the samples I built during the beta, starting today with “Voice Notes”. Voice Notes is a sample application that leverages the new Microphone API. The application lets you record voice notes and store them in a SQLite database so that you can replay them later. [...]
Also posted in Air | 4 Comments

Sample Application using Flex and AIR for Android

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: May 20, 2010
Here is a simple Employee Directory application I wrote to demonstrate how to build Flex applications for Android using the AIR runtime. Watch the video: The key point when you look at the source code of this application is that you build Flex applications for Android the exact same way you build Flex applications for [...]
Also posted in Air, Android | 26 Comments

Android Trader Application with Flex 4 and AIR

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: May 20, 2010
I recently blogged about building a Real Time Trader Desktop Application using Flex 4 and LiveCycle Data Services. I posted the source code for the AIR version and the Browser version of the application. The next logical step was to build a Mobile version. I used Flex 4 and the prerelease version of AIR for [...]
Also posted in Air, Android | 10 Comments

Using the Flash Builder 4 Data Centric Features with Parsley (and other frameworks)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: May 5, 2010
I have blogged about the new data-centric features in Flash Builder 4 here and here. One question people often ask me is: “Can I use this feature if I use a Framework (Cairngorm, Mate, Parsley, Spring ActionScript, Swiz, etc)?” The answer is yes: The classes generated by Flash Builder (Value Objects and Service Stubs) are [...]
Also posted in BlazeDS, LCDS, Parsley | 15 Comments

Trader Desktop Performance Console: Fix, Source Code, and Fast DataGrid

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: April 26, 2010
I fixed a problem in the Trader Desktop Performance console I posted last week: Using the AIR client and the RTMP channel, the message latency started to increase when the application was deactivated (lost focus)… Background: When an AIR application loses focus, the AIR 2 runtime lowers the frame rate of the application to a [...]
Posted in Flex | 4 Comments

Performance Tuning: Real Time Trader Desktop with Flex and LCDS

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: April 22, 2010
In the last few months, I’ve seen an explosion in the number of Financial Services firms interested in building Real Time Trader Desktop applications using Flex and LiveCycle Data Services. The new Quality of Service features available in LCDS 3.x (guaranteed message delivery, message throttling, etc) have contributed to this intensified interest. But for many [...]
Posted in Flex | 15 Comments

Speaking at Skills Matter in London this Thursday Night (Free Event)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: April 14, 2010
I’m in London this week and will make a stop at Skills Matter on Thursday for a free event at 6:30pm… I’ll be presenting on Flex 4, Flash Builder 4, Flash Catalyst, LCDS 3.1, Mosaic, etc. More info here. No, I didn’t come up with the title of the session :) I hope to see [...]
Posted in Flex | 5 Comments

Video: Using the Flash Builder 4 Data Wizards with BlazeDS 4

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: March 23, 2010
In this video, I demonstrate how to build Flex 4 applications with a Java back-end using the new “Data-Centric Development” features of Flash Builder 4 (including service introspection, value object and service stub generation, etc). If you want to try it yourself, the environment I used for the demo is part of a new Test [...]
Posted in Flex | 8 Comments