http://blog.aboutme.be Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:47:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After seeing Mario Klingemann's HTML5 drag and drop demo, I wanted to write a library around it and make it a little more cross-browser. Register the necessary event listeners to the class and react to events such as dragging a file / element over your swf, dropping data or dropping a ... http://blog.aboutme.be/2010/02/21/flash-html5-drag-and-drop-integration/ Some of my students are working on a project where they need a photo-booth-like keying application (take snapshot with somebody out of the picture, then step back in the picture and the background disappears). I've been experimenting with pixelbender the last week, and created some classes that do just that. Check ... http://blog.aboutme.be/2009/12/08/webcam-difference-keying/ CKEditor is the new version of FCKEditor. Following up on my FCKEditor post, I've got CKEditor up and running in both flex and air now. Download the library + demo's at http://blog.aboutme.be/wp-content/uploads/ckeditor_flex_air/ckeditor_flex_air.zip Again, some release notes (same as FCKEditor actually :-)): When you extract the zip file, you will find an swc file, ... http://blog.aboutme.be/2009/10/25/ckeditor-running-in-flex-and-air/ One of the most wanted features in Adobe Flex / AIR is a better Rich Text Editor. There are some great ones available for javascript, so why can't we have an editor with the same featureset? Well, it is actually possible to incorporate existing javascript editors in your Flex / ... http://blog.aboutme.be/2009/08/17/using-fckeditor-in-flex-and-air/ Some of you may know, I don't own a car. So I take the public transportation a lot. I need to check the hours of trains, busses and metro's very often, but their aren't any mobile optimized travel-search services (that I know of) here in Belgium. So I decided to write ... http://blog.aboutme.be/2009/05/24/iphone-public-transportation-lookup/ I just uploaded a first version of my cakephp scripts. Bakeme is a cakephp application skeleton with customized bake scripts, which enables you to create advanced, data-driven websites. Some of the features are: - Pasword protected backend, based on users in the database - Customized form helpers to add fckeditor input fields, server side ... http://blog.aboutme.be/2009/01/02/bakeme-customized-cakephp-bake-templates-application-skeleton/ The first beta of the new version of SWX was released yesterday. This new version brings AS3 and Flash Player 10 support. I decided to update CakeSWXPHP, to support this new version of SWX. You can download a new version, from my CakeSWXPHP page. http://blog.aboutme.be/2008/12/23/cakeswxphp-updated-to-swx-20-beta-1/ I had to search for (stock) images today, to include in a presentation. I found myself tabbing through different search engines all the time, so I decided to write an amf/swx service which has methods to search SXC, MorgueFile, Google Image search and Flickr. This way, I can write a ... http://blog.aboutme.be/2008/11/11/image-search-service/ I had to create bigger scrollbars, for a flex project which had to run on touchscreens. Their isn't a real style or property which enables you to do this, but thanks to programmatic skinning, it is quite easy. First of all, create a class which extends mx.skins.halo.ScrollTrackSkin. In this class, you ... http://blog.aboutme.be/2008/10/05/resizing-scrollbars-in-flex/ Awesome. I got back from the conference yesterday, feeling both inspired and depressed (because it's over again). We got to see a lot of great sessions, and I think most of us returned with a lot of new ideas, starting with reserving 20 minutes each day to play around :-) It all ... http://blog.aboutme.be/2008/10/03/flash-on-the-beach-2008/