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October 4, 2013
AIR Android Facebook iOS Login Popup SSO
Facebook SSO For Flash & Mobile AIR Apps
This implementation is taken from TrainLord as it runs on web (flash), android and iOS (AIR) platforms. Facebook’s authentication flows are based on the OAuth 2.0 protocol. Its recommended you have general undesrtanding of OAuth protocol prior reading this article.
If you run services on your own backend (like TrainLord does), the main point of whole thing is to securely pair a facebook id and user session. So later, whenever user does a request to your backend it automatically recoginzes the facebook id. In my case I used id and name to create an unique user record in my database so I can save some more user related data (score, etc.).
August 5, 2013
ArcGIS GPU maps OpenStreetMap YCanvas
YCanvasMaps
6 months before today I released and open sourced YCanvas library. Since it powers some of my projects nicely (onBoard, Train Lord), some of you requested me to create map implementation as well as Feathers UI component so you can easily integrate it into your own projects. I have decided to take this challenge and wrapped the original library by some more specific functionality. It took me some time, but finally, the extended library is out and ready to be used in any flash, AIR or mobile project.
March 27, 2013
Samsung Smart TV Development with HaXe and MVC
Next step with my project was to implement MVC framework. The most popular one called mmvc provided by massive interactive seemed a bit broken when used with HaXe 3 RC, but as all those sources are available, I managed to do some small updates in order to compile it without errors. Normaly you would just install the mmvc library using haxelib and the install process grabs the necessary dependencies like msignal, minject, mcover, mcore… But in order to fix HaXe 3 issues, I decided to just download it into my projects src folder.
September 10, 2012
arc DownloadProgressBar IPreloaderDisplay preloader SparkDownloadProgressBar
Flex Arc Preloader Without SparkDownloadProgressBar
There is a lot of flex preloader tutorials all over the internet. If you take a closer look at each, you may notice those all extends DownloadProgressBar or SparkDownloadProgressBar classes. You may decide that these classes do not fit your needs, and it that case you can extend regular Sprite with IPreloaderDisplay implementation. Soon you realize there is some other Preloader in use, that communicates with your custom one through events. Following example contains a preloader implementation that renders a filled arc based on application load progress and RSL load progress. Lets have a look how to handle it properly.
October 25, 2011
BitmapData extract SampleDataEvent Sound
A Sound In Image Experiment
There are some usefull apis since Flash Player 10, I have never been playing with. Yesterday, I realized one experiment with Sound + SampleDataEvent and created quick demo for converting music into a bitmap and vice versa.
There is a Sound.extract() method in ActionScript allowing you to grab raw sound data from a sound object. It provides you ByteArray of 32-bit floating-point values, which can be converted to a Number using ByteArray.readFloat(). The resulting values are -1 < value < 1...
October 13, 2011
css highlight ISequence parser SequenceParser
SequenceParser – Simple yet Mighty
With my latest approach to create universal parser, I came up with something simple yet mighty. SequenceParser is a simple (30 lines) class that crawles any source and matches specified list of highly customizable ISequences. While each sequence can contain list of nester sequences, you are able to parse any type of source with nested conditions and sequences. A good example can be an attribute inside a xml node, a xml node inside a xml node, an escape character inside quotas etc.
I have also created some example sequences like MatchAnything, MatchRegexp, MatchString, StartRegexpEndRegexp, StartRegexpEndString, StartStringEndString that should help to cover almost any possible parsing scenario. These sequences notifies back via callback containing parsed string, that is vital for further bulding additional logic like highlightning, validation over parsed phrases.
September 20, 2011
BitmapData Matrix OSMF screenshot VideoPlayer
Quick Tip: OSMF VideoPlayer Screenshot
Your video is usualy resized and played in a custom sized rectangle, but if you need to capture the fullscreen screenshot you may be tempted to gather the original size screenshot by resizing the whole component or its part. Its not the best practice, while you need to resize and move back and forth the component etc. Here is a quick tip to make a fullsize screenshot from spark osmf based VideoPlayer using Matrix.
September 2, 2011
ActionScript 3 Date
Did anyone alse than me wondered about Date.toString() output format in AS3? I mean what standard is it? It looks like something that adobe created for flash purpose and is not used anywhere else(?). According to the documentation AS3 output format for date is.
Day Mon Date HH:MM:SS TZD YYYY
Fri Sep 2 14:49:30 GMT+0200 2011August 5, 2011
ConstraintColumn constraintColumns ConstraintLayout ConstraintRow layout table
Layout For A Table
There are some hidden treasures deep in flex framework, you just have to dig for. Yesterday I hit by coincidence ConstraintLayout. Its a part of 4.5 SDK and is a nice layout for defining rows and columns for a table. Once columns and rows are created, your elements are not automaticaly aligned into a block, but rather any element can refer to any column/row using correct formula in style attributes. E.g. forumla left=”{columnId}:{value}” will attach your element into position of a column and offsetting it by some value. This layout also easily let you merge cells or rows etc.
July 28, 2011
What was first: the chicken or the egg?
Here is a little experiment (that was hanging in my drafts for some months already) with static method, static code block, [Mixin] and class constructor. Can you guess correct order of trace()s dispatched by using the following Item class? Notice [Mixin] will only be understood and init() called with flex application.