ECMAScript 4.0 Gone, My Reaction
| By Rich Tretola | August 19, 2008 | 327 views |
Well, I just got back from a nice weekend reunion with some College friends and I am greeted with the news that ECMAScript 4 has been officially killed in favor of ECMAScript 3.1.
Adobe has included many things in ActionScript 3 (like packages, namespaces, bindings, etc) that were all proposed for ECMAScript 4 and will now not be in the 3.1 standard. So, my initial reaction was “crap”, this is a big problem as ActionScript 3 has been tied so closely to this now defunct proposal.
However, upon reflection and reading a first reaction from Mike Chambers, I now believe that this may be a really good thing for ActionScript as any handcuffs that were slowing Adobe’s progress on the AS3 base are now removed. Progress will probably be expedited as there will be less hesitation on keeping things out of the standard simply because they were not part of the ES4 standard.
So hopefully, we will see new features added like native overloading for methods, Iterators, private class constructors, static classes, etc.
Well, that is my 2 cents, what do you think?
Topics: ActionScript 3, Adobe AIR, Flex | 3 Comments »
URLTestr - AIR Application for MAX 2008 Presentation
| By Rich Tretola | August 14, 2008 | 441 views |
As promised, here is a preview of the application that will be the basis of my presentation at Adobe MAX 2008 presentation in San Francisco Tuesday November 18 at 1:30pm.
What is URLTestr? It is an AIR application that will monitor websites and trigger alerts when it detects that a URL is offline.
Simply install, add some URL’s to monitor and explore the rest of the app. The final version may include a few additional features that are currently under development. Can you say, email or text message alerts? 
Please leave your comments within this post.
Topics: Adobe AIR, Flex | 7 Comments »
Win free AIR Books
| By Rich Tretola | August 11, 2008 | 827 views |
If you have been a regular visitor to my blog, you will notice that it changed a bit in the last few days. Hopefully the layout is a little cleaner.
Anyway, if you didn’t notice, I am not a designer. So I would like to offer a free copy of Beginning AIR and a free copy of the new AIR Cookbook (when available later this year) to whomever can come up with a new logo for EverythingFlex. The logo should represent the nature of the site which is dedicated to Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR but it can not include any of their copyrighted logos.
Here is what the old logo looked like:
Please submit links to your entries as comments to this post and the best one posted before the end of August will win the books.
Topics: Announcements | 9 Comments »
Get IPAddress into Flash
| By Rich Tretola | August 7, 2008 | 841 views |
I have had a few people ask how to read the users IPAddress from within Flash. The way I do this is to use my application server to write the IPAddress into a flash var which I then read from flash. This is obviously open to spoofing if the user wants to play games as the IPAddress is displayed within the page source however it fulfills my needs.
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Topics: Flex | 2 Comments »
Congrats to Open Flex!
| By Rich Tretola | August 5, 2008 | 351 views |
Congratulations to Open Flex for winning the InfoWorld Bossie for Rich Internet Applications.
Topics: Announcements, Flex | No Comments »
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