Sönke Rohde

FGATracker for Google Analytics tracking

FGATracker is an AS3 library which wraps gaforflash for Google Analytics and can be easily used in combination with the Swiz framework. Source and Download Source on GitHub Download SWC API docs Usage Add FGATracker to your BeanLoader: Dispatch TrackPageEvent or TrackActionEvent: From a view class (set bubbles=true): dispatchEvent( new TrackPageEvent( TrackPageEvent.PAGE, "/pagename", true ) ); dispatchEvent( new TrackActionEvent( TrackActionEvent.ACTION ...

FlairLoc Public Beta

FlairLoc is an Adobe® AIR™ application to localize Adobe® Flex® applications. Today I am happy to announce that the public beta of FlairLoc is available. Features Change resources in a user interface with search capability Extract resource keys from source code and synchronizes it with all locale sets Automatic translation into 42 languages with the ...

GIT Tips and Tools

If you don't know GIT yet it is a software version control system like Subversion, CVS or Perforce. It was primary developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. I have started using GIT in the beginning of 2009 and I must say that after a not so small learning ...

YouTube AS3 example

Today YouTube finally released an ActionScript 3 API. Maybe this was accelerated by the move of Vimeo because they came up with an AS3 API last week. I have build a little AIR client as an example application. Check my YouTubeAS3 project on github for the source code. The example of ...

Presentation Model Interface with Swiz

Lately I have started to use the presentation model approach and I like it a lot. Swiz fellow Ben Clinkinbeard has a wonderful example posted on his blog. However I disliked that I have to dispatch custom events to make getters bindable. This would normally look like this in an interface: [Bindable(event="customDataChanged")] function ...

High level AS3/Flex library for OAuth with Twitter from AIR

Recently I have played again with the Twitter API and finally have OAuth working. When I have first played with the Twitter API I have used the example from Tour de Flex. The example loads up the friends list and uses the Twitter AS3 API. The API is not really ...

Width Problem with Firefox

Recently I ran into a problem that I had to build a Flash movie which should fit the browser window meaning the Flash movie is embedded with 100%x100%. The problem I had is that even if I resized the browser window to something like 400x400 the stage.width property still showed 662. ...

Swiz 0.6.2 with Flex 4 support

We just released a new Swiz update: Flex 4 support (beta) TwoWay autowire Mediate priorities Pass event to mediating method Flex 4 support Today Adobe has released Flex Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst betas on Adobe Labs. One more reason for Swiz to support Flex 4. We have now posted two SWCs for Flex 2/3 and ...

Swiz Unit Tests with FlexUnit 4

Recently FlexUnit 4 beta 1 was released. To get started I recommend FlexUnit 4 in 360 seconds and the feature overview. If you are using the Swiz framework and want to apply some changes to provide a patch file you could run the unit tests to be sure to break ...

Swiz Autowire View

Swiz got a new feature which allows you to autowire views into any class which has been loaded in a BeanLoader. A target could be a controller class which wants to interact with a view. Normally you would say that the view dispatches events which are then handled by a ...