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Comment on A Faster Splash Screen for AIR on iOS by Jon Marshall

Jon Marshall — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:31:08 +0000

Thanks for the info. It was Vey helpful. I just wanted to add if you are doing this on windows, make sure the file is “.png” and not “.PNG”. This makes all the difference in the world.

Please forgive the poor grammar. I just didn’t want anyone thinking “why would he have a period after the png in the first place.”

Comment on The Fading of the Flex Framework by Jamie McDaniel

Jamie McDaniel — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:00:04 +0000

Be sure to read Adam Flater's Huge Adobe Partnership to Open Source Flex with Apache Software Foundation as a counterbalance.

Comment on The Fading of the Flex Framework by Teoti Graphix, LLC » Flex’s future :: A component developers take

Teoti Graphix, LLC » Flex’s future :: A component developers take — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:51:50 +0000

[...] The Fading of the Flex Framework “If the 3rd party Flex component market never took off, why does Adobe think there is a large community willing to spend time (which equals money) doing what Adobe is no longer willing to do — fix and further the hot mess that is the Flex SDK?” [...]

Comment on The Fading of the Flex Framework by Mark Fuqua

Mark Fuqua — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:32:52 +0000

I have bought Flex 2, Flex 3, Flex 4.5 and Flex 4.6 (no wait…4.6 was free), maybe I spent $750. One copy of Master Collection is $2600. ColdFusion Enterprise is $8500. Flex is a money loser for Adobe. Always has been, but now Adobe had to make some decisions about where to put its money.

Flex is a great framework, Air for Mobile w/Flex 4.6 is a great mobile solution. Maybe it will suffer as an open source product, maybe it will thrive. Either way, it is the best solution for me and my clients. I hope it thrives.

Comment on A Faster Splash Screen for AIR on iOS by Jamie McDaniel

Jamie McDaniel — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:35:46 +0000

@Stacey – The splashScreenImage is a property of the Flex spark.components.Application class. For a pure AS3 project, you would need to create your own preloader. In the book, “Developing Android Applications with Adobe AIR” on page 58, there is a brief paragraph on this.

“…make your root application a simple movie with a loading indicator graphic. Once it is loaded and rendered (listen for the ADDED_TO_STAGE event), load your main application in it using the Loader class. The main application .swf file must be in the list of Included Files so that it lives in the application directory.”

Also, maybe check out this blog post: http://swfhead.com/blog/?p=817

Comment on A Faster Splash Screen for AIR on iOS by Stacey Reiman

Stacey Reiman — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:26:34 +0000

Hello this is great info, but how about from Flash CS5.5? Can I access this splash screen setting via pure AS3?

Comment on A Faster Splash Screen for AIR on iOS by Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 9/19/2011 | Remote Synthesis

Cool Stuff with the Flash Platform - 9/19/2011 | Remote Synthesis — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:12:32 +0000

[...] Jamie McDaniel shows how, by supplying both the properly named iOS images and the splash page images within Flex (also properly resized), you can get a splash screen that appears faster for AIR on iOS. [...]

Comment on A Faster Splash Screen for AIR on iOS by Roj Prasad

Roj Prasad — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:35:26 +0000

Nice post Jamie. Thank you.

Comment on A Faster Splash Screen for AIR on iOS by Mike G - Lime Rocket

Mike G - Lime Rocket — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 03:18:31 +0000

Thanks Jamie. This is great help for anyone getting started with AIR for iOS. The icons and splash screens are usually an after thought for most developers and sometimes it feels like that last 100m to get your app to the AppStore or Market takes forever

Comment on Achieving a High Number of Interactive Markers with the Google Maps for Flash API by Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:54:46 +0000

Hey , thanks so much for this example. It really helped out. I was wondering if you had ever had problems with firing mouseEvents under a TileLayerOverlay. We are using the TileLayerOverlay class and the mouseEvents under the TileLayerOVerLay will not fire. It has to be some displayobject blocking the events. I havent been able to fix this yet. Seemed like an easy fix :
var layer:Sprite = tilerLayerOver.foreground as Sprite;
layer.mouseChildren = true;

something like that seemed like it should fix the problem and of course no dice.. Hope this makes sense? If you have any info on this or know of a link to something i could read about that would be great..

Again thanks so much for this example..
chris.