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Loading external MovieClip assets and Custom Class problem

Hair pulling time. For some reason I am having a major trauma over this one so I am putting it out there on my blog for some potential guidance please. Scenario: In a UILibrary.fla I have a MovieClip named CustomMC with a linkage id of CustomClass I have a class named CustomClass.as with all the [...]
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Simple MVC RSS Feed Example

Someone asked if I could build simple a RSS feed example in Flash and AS3 stipulating a MVC kinda framework, nothing fancy and quick (UI not important). They also wanted the proxy to pull in data from the fullasagoog feed and must be a singleton. Its was a quick example due to time but may [...]
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Determining an Object based on property

I had an error thrown in Flex recently which was Property type not found on ‘** A Class Object **’ and there is no default value.. In a nut shell I had an ArrayCollection of Value Objects and amongst them was one particular Object I wanted removing from the ArrayCollection ready for storage. I have [...]
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PureMVC AS3 MultiCore / Flex Demo – PipeWorks

Cliff has just released a demo for the Multicore framework and PipeWorks utility. This is a fantastic demonstration of how to use PipeWorks and re-utilizes the AIR/Flex RSS Reader demo I built to now parse ATOM1.0, RSS1.0 and RSS2.0! Chiggy check it! PureMVC AS3 MultiCore / Flex Demo – PipeWorks
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Creating a Playlist Proxy for a Video Player

** Due to the Voices blog’s demise I rescued this tutorial for reference, V2 update out soon! ** I have blogged recently about how to build a simple flv player in flash and flex using PureMVC and thought I would extend the functionality to the player by adding the ability to retrieve a simple XML [...]
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PureMVC 2.0.1 List of likes

With the new release of version 2.0.1 for the ActionScript 3 platform I have got to say I am buzzing. There are some nice changes to the framework which have already made my code cleaner and simpler. So, I thought it would be cool for people to list there likes for this version (not just [...]
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Mediator Registration and Popups

If your gonna listen out for notifications in a mediator thats registered using the PopManager class I detailed here http://www.newtriks.com/?p=76 be aware that the mediator may not be registered when the notifications are being fired. For example, I want to populate a popup window with data from a proxy using the mediator to request the [...]
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Stop Dragging TitleWindow

I was under a bit of time pressure and trying to stop dragging of a TitleWindow PopUp. I tried all sorts of funky stuff like intercepting the onMouseDown Event and using Event.stopImmediatePropogation() to no avail. I also wanted access to the titleBar exclusively so here is an extended TitleWindow which enables both my requirements and [...]
Posted in AS3, Flex | Also tagged , | 4 Comments

Source files for ‘Creating a Playlist Proxy for a Video Player’…

Been getting requests for the source files for this tutorial, so I quickly added in the playlist functionality and the source can be downloaded here.
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PureMVC and CS3 next step tutorial – build a Proxy

Following on from my last PureMVC tutorial for Flash CS3 I have written a next step tutorial on how to build and implement a Proxy to the FLV player to incorporate a xml playlist file. I have published this article on the new voices blog at puremvc.org. As a PureMVC project owner I will now [...]
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