Matthew Set­ter writes a very inter­est­ing arti­cle; Ok, so you’re pretty com­fort­able with using the Zend Frame­work, specif­i­cally the use of Forms. Along with that, you have a good work­ing knowl­edge of how to com­bine a host of stan­dard val­ida­tors such as Cred­it­Card, EmailAd­dress, Db_RecordExists, and Hex, and stan­dard fil­terssuch as Compress/Decompress, Base­Name, Encrypt, and Real­Path. But what do you do when a sit­u­a­tion arises that’s out­side the […]

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Kevin Schroeder writes; Zend Server 5.6 is out.  I’m actu­ally pretty stoked about this release.  Here’s a few rea­sons why.

Zend Server CE now con­tains the full Zend Server stack.  Why do I find this excit­ing?  Because the upgrade path from CE to the full ver­sion is stu­pid easy.  That means you can try out all of […]

If you are see­ing some­thing inter­est­ing on the iPad screen that you would want to cap­ture. Screen­shot is quite use­ful, espe­cially if you have an error on your device and you want to cap­ture an image so that later you could show it to a sup­port tech and they could assist you in fix­ing the issue.
Heres […]

PHPCloud.com is the land­ing page for our new cloud offer­ing.  Using the Zend Appli­ca­tion Fab­ric you can build your appli­ca­tions in the same envi­ron­ment as you will be deploy­ing your apps to.  The appli­ca­tion is built on my.phpcloud.com and you can then deploy it onto any plat­form where the Fab­ric is sup­ported.
But how do you get started? […]

Matt W answers;
Take advan­tage of the dynamic func­tion con­struc­tion in AS3.

pri­vate func­tion myCallbackFunction(e:Event, parameter:String):void
{
//voila, here’s your para­me­ter
}

pri­vate func­tion addArguments(method:Function, additionalArguments:Array):Function
{
return function(event:Event):void {method.apply(null, [event].concat(additionalArguments));}
}

var parameter:String = “A sen­tence I want to pass along”;
movieClip.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, addArguments(myCallbackFunction, [parameter] ) );

Nick Kwiatkowski cre­ated a few very inter­est­ing posts with video tuto­ri­als, he writes; The sec­ond I heard about Adobe giv­ing us the abil­ity to cre­ate our own exten­sions to the Flash Plat­form in AIR 3.0, I was smit­ten. It was finally a way that we could add our own fea­tures and do the things that were […]

UPDATE: I have another Drag-and-Drop Revis­ited post that cov­ers even more drag-and-drop func­tion­al­ity avail­able in Flex 4.
The Flex 4 gods were kind to us devel­op­ers when they made the great deci­sion to leave the cus­tom drag-and-drop sup­port unchanged. We just do what we’ve always done: detect the user is try­ing to drag some­thing via mouse­Down or […]

ahillman3 on Stack Over­flow wrote this (and won my hero of the day award); OK, the pri­mary focus for your solu­tion is the pre­loader attribute on a mobile appli­ca­tion. See the preloader=“CustomSplashScreen” below:

< ?xml version=“1.0″ encoding=“utf-8″?>

The Cus­tom­Splash­Screen extends and over­rides the spark.preloaders.SplashScreen class, and the getIm­age­Class function.

pack­age
{
import mx.core.DPIClassification;
[…]

Daniel Free­man writes; I’ve had feed­back from a few devel­op­ers want­ing a way to com­bine Mad­Com­po­nents with Flash Builder 4.5 for mobile.  I intended Mad­Com­po­nents as a ligh­weight alter­na­tive to using the Flex frame­work.  So while I don’t really like the idea of mix­ing them – it’s cer­tainly pos­si­ble to incor­po­rate Mad­Com­po­nents within an MXML […]

Daniel Free­man writes; In this final Mad­Com­po­nents tuto­r­ial we’re going to look at the third and final Flash Builder 4.5 tuto­r­ial (from here), and do it the Mad­Com­po­nents way.  Adobe’s Flex Test Drive for Mobile: Build a mobile appli­ca­tion in an hour, takes you through build­ing an AMF web ser­vice, and then build­ing a mobile client application […]

dkozar evolved a work­ing method to Authen­ti­cate and Autho­rize a Flex based app datas ser­vice call using Zend AMF, he writes;
I’ve been strug­gling with it, and fig­ured it all out — so, per­haps it could help oth­ers.
The authen­ti­ca­tion is called on the server only if cre­den­tials sup­plied from the client (via the remote pro­ce­dure call […]

Kevin Schroeder writes; I for­get why, but a few days ago I started doing some dig­ging around with authen­ti­ca­tion in Zend_Amf_Server. I had fig­ured that I would add an adapter to the Zend_Amf_Server::setAuth() method and that would be it.
But I was wrong.
AMF allows for mul­ti­ple request bod­ies to be sent at the same time. Of those there […]

roustal­ski writes somthing that will save you quite a bit of time if you get caught with this run­time error; When you show a popup in Flex in a mobile envi­ron­ment, defined as the style “inter­ac­tion­Mode” being set to InteractionMode.TOUCH in this con­text, that is based on a com­po­nent that does not imple­ment the mx.managers.IFocusManagerContainer […]

Since Flex 4.5, you have had the abil­ity to develop and export your projects as Android, iOS and Play­Book mobile appli­ca­tions that behave as native ones.
You can also export your Flex mobile project as AIR desk­top apps. Just open Flash builder, open your project and choose Project >  Export release build. You can then export a […]