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Category Archives: Flex

Embedding Tomcat and BlazeDS in an AIR 2.0 Application

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: December 2, 2009
In my previous post, I demonstrated how to create a simple Tomcat Launcher using the new AIR 2.0 Native Process API. The assumption in that sample was that Tomcat was already installed on your machine. In this new sample application, I’m taking that idea a little further by embedding Tomcat as part of the native [...]
Posted in Flex | 20 Comments

Tomcat Launcher: Sample Application using the AIR 2.0 Native Process API

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: December 2, 2009
I have been playing with the new Native Process API of AIR 2.0, and here is a first sample application I wrote. “Tomcat Launcher” is like a mini Tomcat Console that allows you to start / stop Tomcat and view the standard output log without opening a DOS box or Terminal window. It also allows [...]
Posted in Flex | 13 Comments

“Open in Excel”: Another AIR 2 Mini Sample

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: November 24, 2009
In Adobe AIR 1.0 and 1.5, there were different options to “open” the data of a Flex DataGrid in Excel. For example, you could leverage the AIR native drag-and-drop support to drag rows from the DataGrid to an open Excel spreadsheet. You could also drag rows to the desktop (or anywhere on the file system) [...]
Also posted in Air | 21 Comments

“Voice Notes”: Record Voice Notes and Persist them in SQLite with AIR 2

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: November 18, 2009
As you probably already know, the Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 betas are now available on Adobe Labs. I’ve been playing with the Microphone API in AIR 2 while working on the booth here at Devoxx, and built this small sample application that allows you to record voice notes and store them in the [...]
Also posted in Air | 8 Comments

MAX Frameworks Session: One Application, Four Implementations (Code Available)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: October 19, 2009
This year at MAX, I organized a “Flex Frameworks” session called “Using Flex Frameworks to build Data Driven Applications”. I wanted to stay away from a high level / rhetorical debate or panel. I also did not want a session aimed at proclaiming a (subjective) winner. What I had in mind was a pragmatic session [...]
Also posted in Frameworks | 8 Comments

My MAX session video posted: “Model Driven Development with Flex 4 and LCDS3″

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: October 9, 2009
Videos for 250+ hours of MAX sessions have already been posted here (free and without geographical restrictions). Another easy way to find a specific video is to use the MAX session locator and click the “movie” icon that now appears next to the session title. The video of my “Model Driven Development with Flash Builder [...]
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Only 25 seats left in the “Flex Frameworks” session at MAX

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: September 23, 2009
MAX is only 10 days away… If you are interested in Flex Frameworks (Mate, Swiz, PureMVC, Cairngorm), you don’t want to miss the “Using Flex Frameworks to Build Data Driven Applications” session where framework creators/experts (Laura Arguello, Chris Scott, Alex Uhlmann, Javier Julio) will walk you through the architecture and the code of the same [...]
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Model Driven Development with Flex 4 and LCDS 3 Screencast

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: September 17, 2009
I recently presented a new “Model Driven Development with Flex 4″ session at a few conferences and Flash Camps, so I figured I would record a screencast of the demo app for people who did not attend. If you saw a previous version of this demo, this screencast is still worth watching because I’m using [...]
Also posted in Flex4, LCDS, MDD | 21 Comments

Don’t miss the “Flex Frameworks” session at MAX

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: August 7, 2009
I’ve been working on putting together what should be a fun and informative session at MAX this year. The session is called: “Using Flex Frameworks to Build Data-Driven Applications”. This is a 3 hour BYOL (Bring Your Own Laptop) session. The idea is to look at four versions of the exact same application: each version [...]
Also posted in Frameworks, MAX2009 | 6 Comments

AIR-based Mortgage Calculator Desktop Widget (with ILOG Gauges)

By Christophe Coenraets | Published: July 28, 2009
Here is a simple example of using a chromeless, transparent window in AIR to build a widget-type application. I know: yet another mortgage application… but to make things more interesting, I used the cool ILOG Elixir gauges to display and enter the principal, monthly payment, rate, and term. No rocket science here, but a nice [...]
Also posted in Air, ilog | 25 Comments