Update on Google Maps

Now I’ve created an ActionScript component that wraps the Google Maps API.  It only took about a days work, but the end result is that I’ve got a component that takes a list of addresses plus their lattitude and longitude, and show the following information:

A map showing all the points
A list of the addresses
A list [...]

Google Maps

I work in a company who’s main job is to get stuff from one place to another. So you can imagine that it might be a good idea to show people where the stuff is going. When my Guvnor said “could you have a look at Google Maps API for ActionScript” I was [...]

Flex 4 and Flash Player 10

This video here was recorded at 360Flex on Day 1 and it’s the keynote speech from Mark Anders, Senior Principal Scientist at Adobe, plus a number of other speakers talking about various things.   It’s over an hour long, so get yourself a beer, sit back and be amazed….

Flex 4 is a comin’

You can keep up to date with the development of the next release of the SDK on the Adobe Open Source site here.

Focus issues in Flex

You’ll be familiar with FocusManager and how it manages focus around text input controls, right? Well, once again, the browsers have hit back…
It seems, at least in Internet Explorer 7, that if you hit tab on a text box, it will allow Flex to process the keydown, but then it will merrily move focus [...]

PopupButton on a ViewStack doesn’t….

I was reminded today of a bug in the Flex 3.0 SDK that we had to contend with not so long ago. Basically, if you put a PopupButton somewhere on a ViewStack, there is a strong possibility that your Popup won’t (pop up that is…;-D)
It’s a steaming great grillock in the SDK (details here) [...]