Mike Chambers

Using Vectors in ActionScript 3 and Flash Player 10

One of the new ActionScript features included in the Flash Player 10 Public Beta is the inclusion of a Vector class. Essentially, the Vector class is a typed Array, and in addition to ensuring your collection is type safe, can also provide (sometimes

Posted: Aug. 19, 2008 07:44 PM

Using AppleScript to connect to a Jabber Chat Room with Adium

I have been having a lot of fun hanging out in the Flash Platform Chat room I set up last week. However, it can be a little bit of a hassle to connect to the room depending on which Jabber / XMPP client you are using. I am working on an AIR app for t

Posted: Aug. 19, 2008 03:28 AM

Connecting Anonymously to an XMPP Group Chat using XIFF

I posted some code the other day that showed how to use the XIFF AS3 Library to connect to an XMPP server and join a group chat room. Below is an slightly modified example that shows how to login anonymously, and connect to a room. import org.jives

Posted: Aug. 18, 2008 02:54 PM

Community test XMPP / Jabber room

I have set up a permanent test group chat room on the Flash Platform community chat server. This can be used if you need to test your chat client, or if you are building an XMPP / Jabber client and need a remote room to test on. Here is the info: Se

Posted: Aug. 18, 2008 02:29 PM

Anyone using ActionScript 2 to build AIR applications?

The title pretty much sums it up. Is anyone using ActionScript 2 as the root content of an AIR application? or know or any AIR apps built with ActionScript 2 at the root content? Note that Im not talking about AIR applications that are built in Actio

Posted: Aug. 18, 2008 12:57 PM

ActionScript 3 and ECMAScript 4

As you have probably heard by now, the ECMAScript committee has decided to halt work on ECMAScript 4 in favor of an incremental updated to JavaScript (know as ECMAScript 3.1). Im not going to go into the details of what happened (you can find good di

Posted: Aug. 15, 2008 03:40 AM

Connecting to an XMPP / Jabber Server with the XIFF AS3 Library

As I mentioned earlier, I am starting to build an XMPP chat client for the XMPP / Jabber community server I set up today. I am using the XIFF ActionScript 3 library. While the library seems to be pretty solid, there is not a ton of documentation for

Posted: Aug. 14, 2008 08:35 PM

AIR package added to as3corelib library

We have been discussing the need for an AIR specific version of the as3corelib library, which would contain useful APIs for working with Adobe AIR. However, instead of creating a new library, I have added an AIR package to as3corelib which will conta

Posted: Aug. 14, 2008 02:16 PM

Flash Platform Community Chat XMPP / Jabber Server

If you have been in the Flash community for a while, then you may remember a chat app that I worked on for Macromedia Central, named “Central Dev Chat”. This was a decent chat client, but the thing I liked about it the most, was that it p

Posted: Aug. 14, 2008 12:17 PM

New Version of Flump (Flickr Downloader)

I have posted a new build of Flump, which is an Adobe AIR based Flickr image downloader. There are AIR files for AIR 1.1 (Mac and Windows) and the Adobe AIR Linux Alpha. Biggest change in this version is that the app now supports Flickr account auth

Posted: Aug. 12, 2008 11:39 PM

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