Jeethu's Weblog

Bug #1886742

jeethu — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:23:01 +0000

Bug #1886742. This bug had been giving me nightmares for the past few months. But finally, a happy ending. Get the new and shiny AIR 1.5.2 here.

What’s next ?

jeethu — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:06:48 +0000

I don’t know if blogging is dead, or is it just evolving. Welcome to my LifeStream!

4096

jeethu — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:55:22 +0000

4096. What does this number got to do with SWFs ? I’ve been working on a project which involved having to embed a pretty large SWF on a HTML page. How large ? Well.. Little above 6400 pixels in height actually. If you are wondering what ridiculous experiment this might be, i’ll be posting more [...]

Adobe AIR and Multi-touch

jeethu — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:49:52 +0000

Last month we saw a post on Adobe’s INSPIRE magazine regarding the future of multi-touch input. Rich Tretola, has posted on InsideRIA, a video of Andrew Trice, demonstrating multi-touch functionality in AIR. As Andrew explains in the video, AIR natively does not support multi-touch input as of now (version 1.5). Andrew explains that this demo [...]

Programmatically Enable/Disable AIR Autoupdate from an AIR Application

jeethu — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:43:34 +0000

Adobe AIR has an amazing Automatic Updates Checker built in. But Adobe hasn’t provided any controls to enable/disable this feature, though its enabled by default. Adobe provides an AIR application called the Settings Manager to handle this. This can also be done programmatically. Download [download id="1"]. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:WindowedApplication xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="horizontal" height="100" width="600" verticalAlign="middle" fontFamily="Georgia" color="#000000" backgroundGradientAlphas="[1.0, [...]

My presentation at SSN

jeethu — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:12:03 +0000

Last weekend, I was at SSN College. I gave a presentaion on Flash/Flex and the RIA arena. It was great to see the college after many months. Although my demo app backfired without any explanation, the presentation was a success!

A Magnifier – Using Flex/AS3

jeethu — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:40:55 +0000

Here is a fun little piece of code I wrote a few days ago. I was playing around with the BitmapData APIs in AS3 and the idea of a Magnifier, which works within a Flex/AIR/Flash app, occured to me. So without further intro, here is a demo! The logic is pretty simple. Capture the Bitmap data [...]

Adobe riathon 08

jeethu — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:48:00 +0000

It has been a few days since Adobe riathon ‘08. Jan 17th was simply too awesome. I got to meet a whole bunch of people from Adobe, the Indian Flex Team, and best of all I got a chance to demo my entry for the riathon contest on stage. The theme for my app was “create [...]

What keeping me busy?

jeethu — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:49:03 +0000

A lot actually. Where to start. Well, I’m working on a TextFlow-Container control. Yup. I am using the new and awesome Text Layout Framework of Flash player 10. Adobe’s demo was really mind-blowing. But the TextFlow class isn’t that easy to use, especially for noobs. I know, its not the final build and adobe is still [...]

Flex Selection Rectangle

jeethu — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:00:23 +0000

Selection Rectangles. Yup! Those things that come when you click and drag your mouse on your desktop. Well how do you implement them in a Flash/Flex environment? Pretty easy… Click anywhere on the demo and drag to see the selection rectangle. On the top right, the number of items selected is displayed. Like it? Lets look [...]

FreeLayoutContainer [Part 2]

jeethu — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:12:58 +0000

In my previous post, I had created a basic container in Flex within which any child DisplayObject was draggable. The demo was a little sluggish and not very responsive while dragging the objects around. Well…. There was a much simpler way to achieve this. Using the startDrag() and stopDrag() functions. package com.jeethukarthik.containers { import flash.display.DisplayObject; import flash.events.MouseEvent; import [...]

FreeLayoutContainer

jeethu — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:54:30 +0000

Finally i found time to post. FreeLayoutContainer is a little component i put together in my spare time. As many of you know, in Flex, there are three layout options. Horizontal, Vertical and Absolute. And for each of these layout options we have containers, HBox, VBox and Canvas. I was thinking, why not have a container [...]

Welcome to jeethukarthik.com

jeethu — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 11:09:50 +0000

Hey yall !! Welcome to my weblog. I wont be posting anything on my old weblog(s). And am right now in the middle of importing my older posts to this one. So… Keep watching this space for more crazy stuff [Update] Importing process completed !!

Adobe Thermo – New screenshots

jeethu — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:17:31 +0000

Ted Patrick has posted a nice bunch of Thermo screenshots. Thermo is an upcoming Adobe product that makes it easy for designers to create rich Internet application UIs. Thermo allows designers to visually create working RIAs. Applications created in Thermo are Flex applications that can be loaded directly into Flex Builder, providing a great roundtrip [...]

Spread Firefox

jeethu — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:38:07 +0000

Guinness World Records – “Most software downloads in 24 hours” – that’s the record Firefox wants to break with the launch of Firefox 3 – Gran Paradiso. You cannot actually download anything yet, but you can pledge that you’re ready to help them break the record. Over 383,000+ people have already pledged, and I bet this [...]

Photoshop CS4 – GPU and Physics Support

jeethu — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:36:40 +0000

Adobe recently gave a demonstration, at Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, of “Creative Suite Next” (or CS4), code-named “Stonehenge”, which adds GPU and physics support to its existing multi-core support. TG Daily reports on this presentation by Adobe. We saw the presenter playing with a 2 GB, 442 megapixel image like it was a 5 megapixel image [...]

Flash Player 10 – What does it pack?

jeethu — Sun, 18 May 2008 02:37:48 +0000

Flash Player 10 public beta, code named named “Astro” was released a few days ago. You can get it from Adobe labs. This new release has a ton of new stuff that’s gonna blow the minds of anyone who is playing around with Flash because it spans things like Rich-text (finally, right to left!!), 3D [...]

Data Portability – Where are we heading ?

jeethu — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:13:14 +0000

Data Portability seems to be a hot topic this week with Facebook Connect, MySpace Data Portability and Google Friend Connect, each letting their respective users to share their data over to other web sites. Facebook Connect Today we are announcing Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect is the next iteration of Facebook Platform that allows users to “connect” their [...]

JavaFX – An awesome demo at JavaOne

jeethu — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:13:01 +0000

2008 JavaOne Conference, Sun’s yearly developer conference, saw an interesting little demo of JavaFX, Sun’s very own RIA platform. Though the demo crashed more than a couple of times, it was pretty awesome to look at. The same JavaFX code running in a web page, desktop and a mobile phone. Check it out… The idea of [...]

A new beginning…

jeethu — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:41:49 +0000

Its been a while since i posted any stuff. I had been off doing other things all this while. Studies, work, games, stuff… And i accidentally came across this, my forgotten blog. I never really got into blogging, although i read a gizzilion different blogs, guess i’m more of a lazy bum to type a [...]