Introduction to Flex Resource Bundles
By Roger Braunstein | on May 9, 2008
In Flex, Programming, Tutorial | 2 Comments
Hark, Flex developers. Lend me your ears! I must take this post to implore you: use Resource Bundles! Trust me, I know, there’s a lot to keep up with these days, but if you aren’t already privy to the awesome secrets of the humble bundle, hopefully I can help convince you to use them. I’ll show you how, without breaking one bead of sweat from your brow! First, let me tell you why they’re cool. Then, I’ll show you how to get rolling with your first bundle. Then, I’ll set you loose, and hopefully you can all write in with excellent questions and help me make this a great resource for the next readers! Read on, fair Flexer.
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KitchenSync 1.2 released - Shiny new naming convention
By Mims Wright | on May 3, 2008
In KitchenSync, News, Serious Stuff, open-source | No Comments
Hi. I recently released a new naming convention for KitchenSync. There were a few reasons for this.
1. People found Synchronized to be a pain in the ass to type over and over again.
2. I’m going to add queue functionality which means I needed to support asynchronous functions. I thought SynchronizedAsynchronousFunction didn’t make any sense.
3. Some of the classes conflict with the Flex SDK. The easing classes still do but it should be better now.
4. While I love flat package structures, I felt that the system needed to be a bit more hierarchical.
Among other changes, all actions now use the initials ‘KS’ instead of ‘Synchronized’.
Classes have also been moved to multiple packages.
org.as3lib.kitchensync- Contains the new KitchenSync class and the KitchenSyncDefaults. These are global classes that control the entire system.org.as3lib.kitchensync.easing- Contains all the easing function classes.org.as3lib.kitchensync.action- Contains all Actionsorg.as3lib.kitchensync.action.tweenable- Contains classes that represent properties that can be tweened.org.as3lib.kitchensync.core- Contains the internal workings of the systemorg.as3lib.kitchensync.util- Contains helper classes.
The changes to the names of classes are listed here: Naming Changes
The changes to the package structure are listed here: Package Structure
Help with converting older code is here: Legacy help
The new naming convention went up yesterday in version 1.2. I fixed everything with the refactor command in FB and with find and replace so there’s a good chance that there are a couple of bugs, although, my demos are still running correctly. Please let me know if there are any problems with the wiki or the library.
We’re happy to announce a new addition to the blog - Caleb Johnston has joined as a contributor. Caleb is currently a developer at Your Majesty and is a swell guy.
Check out his first post.