Flex

The new ASDoc tool in Flex 4 does a great job getting rid of problems documenting with MXML components. You can now document projects that contain references to MXML and you can document the MXML components themselves!

The ASDoc documentation generator tool that ships with Flex is extremely useful but not without its drawbacks. In Flex 3, ASDoc's support for MXML files is missing completely: not only does it produce no documentation for MXML files, it won't even compile if your regular ActionScript classes make any references to MXML components.

If you're in Vancouver or thereabouts and would like to learn up on Flex, Flash, and AIR, now's your chance! On Thursday there's a free full day of training. They're calling it "RIA Day" and it's happening at the Vancouver Harbour Centre.

Some quick notes using Adobe's ASDoc tool for generating Actionscript documentation.

Checked out the Vancouver Flash Meetup for the first time tonight. Ross Ladell runs the show and while tonight's meetup was a little disorganized (he's gotta work, too!), he did present some pretty interesting and useful code.

Ages ago I did a quick comparison of some Actionscript documentation generators and found good tools but nothing that fit my needs perfectly. Finally, the search is over.

When processing large amounts of data you end up leaving the user with an inactive application or even worse, an prompt asking if they want to stop script execution. I've factored out asynchronous processing into a class which I hope you'll find handy.

An implementation for building multi-column layouts in Flash. The text spans across multiple text fields, each with different dimensions and even font styles. Check out the demo after the jump.

There is a variety of splendid Flash charts available for free at amCharts. Unfortunately, they're designed for embedding in HTML pages and don't work so well in Flex.