I crossed to the other side
Just a quick note to let you all know that as of today (5th December 14:40) I am officially an iMac owner. Now I’ll have to move my development environment to iMac. I’ll be doing this over the next few days. In the meantime you can follow my progress with iMac setup over at my new blog www.yoorek.com/imac
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Without wax,
yOOrek
Another success – Problem with using embedded font fixed
As reported in this post, I was having problems with using embedded font in the <mx:Linkbar> object. Have a look at the code below to see what I had to change to get it to work (changes are in bold).
Here is the snippet for font embedding from as file -
[Bindable]
[Embed(source='include/fonts/Speedline.ttf',
fontName='GalleryFont',
fontStyle='normal',
fontWeight='normal',
mimeType='application/x-font')]
// You do not use this variable directly. It exists so that
// the compiler will link in the font.
public var embeddedFont:Class;
Here is the snippet of the style sheet -
.headerLinkBar {
fontFamily: GalleryFont;
fontSize: 18;
fontWeight: normal;
fontStyle: normal;
fontThickness: 0;
colour: #808080;
textRollOverColor: #FFFFFF;
rollOverColor: #262626;
selectionColor: #262626;
separatorColor: #FFFFFF;
}
.headerLinkBarButton {
fontFamily: GalleryFont;
fontWeight: normal;
fontStyle: normal;
}
And here is the snippet from the MXML file -
<mx:LinkBar id="headerLinkBarThumbsView"
styleName="headerLinkBar"
linkButtonStyleName="headerLinkBarButton">
<mx:dataProvider>
<mx:Array>
<mx:String>Arrange</mx:String>
<mx:String>Stack</mx:String>
<mx:String>Randomise</mx:String>
<mx:String>Back</mx:String>
</mx:Array>
</mx:dataProvider>
</mx:LinkBar>
It looks like specifying the style in ‘styleName’ attribute of <mx:Linkbar> element is not enough in Flex 3.2 (it used to work in Flex 2). Specifying the style for the link bar button in ‘linkButtonStyleName’ does the trick. Hopefully someone will find this useful.
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Without wax,
yOOrek
Success – I managed to recompile the galleries
Success, I managed to recompile the galleries using Flex 3.2 SDK. See them here and here. The only thing that I still have problems with is embedded fonts in <mx:Linkbar>. Embedded fonts work quite nicely in other elements, but not in <mx:Linkbar>.
Here is the snippet for font embedding from as file -
[Bindable]
[Embed(source='include/fonts/Speedline.ttf',
fontName='GalleryFont',
fontStyle='normal',
fontWeight='normal',
mimeType='application/x-font')]
// You do not use this variable directly. It exists so that
// the compiler will link in the font.
public var embeddedFont:Class;
Here is the snippet of the stylesheet -
.headerLinkBar {
fontFamily: GalleryFont;
fontSize: 18;
fontWeight: normal;
fontStyle: normal;
fontThickness: 0;
colour: #808080;
textRollOverColor: #FFFFFF;
rollOverColor: #262626;
selectionColor: #262626;
separatorColor: #FFFFFF;
}
And here is the snippet from the MXML file -
<mx:LinkBar id="headerLinkBarThumbsView"
styleName="headerLinkBar">
<mx:dataProvider>
<mx:Array>
<mx:String>Arrange</mx:String>
<mx:String>Stack</mx:String>
<mx:String>Randomise</mx:String>
<mx:String>Back</mx:String>
</mx:Array>
</mx:dataProvider>
</mx:LinkBar>
I think I’m coding everything correctly. It worked without a problem in Flex 2. You can see the same font being used on the slide/thumbnail. Perhaps there is a change in behavior in Flex 3. Sooner or later I will get to the bottom of this. In the meantime I have to put up with the default font.
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Without wax,
yOOrek
Day Zero
Well, I’m off to download and install Eclipse IDE from eclipse.org. This will be my development environment. Then I’ll get myself the Flex™ 3 SDK from adobe.com. After that is installed I will go to www.asdt.org to install Action Script Development Tools. AXDT is a set of plug-ins for the Eclipse Platform that enable you to write ActionScript3 code in an integrated environment. AXDT is based on Eclipse Imp and utilizes the opensource FlexSDK.
Once that’s done I’ll post the results.
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Without wax,
yOOrek
PS
It is almost three in the morning, so far so good. I sucessfully compiled a sample AS source as well as MXML source.
Diaries of my Flex™ Adventure
I already have some experience (like almost a year), with Flex™ 2 and AS2. I gained it while writing a Lightroom® web gallery. To cut a long story short, everything was fine until I wanted to see the results of my work inside LR. No va monsieur le developer! Since the gallery looked fantastic, at least to my eyes, I decided to spend some more time on it.
You are welcome to check the prototype of the gallery here and here. The difference between these links is that they use different configuration file. Normally you should be able to double click on the slide to view a full size image. This does not work however. I did something in the code and forgot to undo it.
My Flex™ Photo Gallery
Not that I expect anything to change now, but I decided to have another go at it using free Flex™ 3 SDK, Eclipse and few other tools that I will list in the next post. This blog will document my efforts in a hope that it my just help someone, in a not so distant future, to get started in RIA.
So, until the next post,
yOOrek
