PodTech:The Architecture of Flash

Good Work Ely!
Really nice podtech to understand the architecture of Flash

Got SilverLight!!!!

Yesterday Microsoft announces the much awaited WPF/E branding it as SilverLight. I had not heard some story behind this name still I checked it out and downloaded some sample applications, but its really disheartening to see what they have given as samples

Copied the concept of Flex book component which is having less functionality!!!

Definately I am not impressed by this, there is a growing community of Flex developers and we have really good ideas implemented. If you want to compete show us something new and original

If anyone wants to look at it –>

 http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

Resizing the Map by dragging the container

I got the question again from Girish He was trying to resize the map whenever you try to  change the size of the vdividedbox component.

Here is the link –>

http://digitallyinsane.wordpress.com/2007/04/05/show-the-marker-on-the-map-on-the-click-on-the-map/

I tried to digg in to the problem and found out that if u want to change the size of the map on resizing the container you need to provide the min width and min height in the source provided by yahoo

Check out this article in Flex docs

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/2/docs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm?href=00001733.html 

Its saying about setting the minimum height and width of the component and my guess is that u have to set that in the  YahooMapService.as file.

I am trying to look into that but busy with some other work.

Here is one more alternative that can be done

Instead of putting a container inside the vdividedbox and putting a map inside it, put map directly inside the vdividedbox and set the width and height of the yahoo map component as 80% and you will be able to resize it.

Here is the code

<mx:VDividedBox id=”vdb” right=”5″ top=”5″ bottom=”5″ left=”285″ >

<yahoo:YahooMapService
id=”myAS2Map”
UUID=”12345″
swfDomId=”{SWFDOMID}”
apiId=”{YAHOOAPIKEY}”
mapURL = “{MAPSWF}” height=”80%” width=”80%”
x=”10″ y=”10″/>

<mx:Canvas height=”100%” width=”100%” >
<mx:Label
text=”Add Components here”
fontWeight=”bold”/>
</mx:Canvas>
</mx:VDividedBox>

I hope this helps.

If there is anything else do write it to me.

Cheers!

Anupam

Show the marker on the map on the click on the map

Hi,

Girish had written a comment in my post of Yahoo maps communication toolkit , upto my understanding I think he is trying to put some marker whenever user clicks somewhere on the map.

I tried to solve the problem and was amazed to find out that point object which is returned by the onClick method of the map is of the type string

So its the question of some string manipulation and some of the type conversion and i am able to show the marker whenever user clicks on the map.

So here is the code I think it might be useful to others also

The new look of Enterprise Application

Hi,

I am hearing lot of stuffs like Web 2.0, RIA and all…  But here is the article that  states the real use of it.

They call it intuitive user interface and thats what these all term like Web 2.0 and RIA mean.

If the user can sense what he needs to do by just looking at the UI of the application there will be a great leap in the future of enterprise application.

I hope we are not eating up the technical writers jobs

Here is the article that i found interesting from AMR research

http://www.amrresearch.com/Content/View.asp?pmillid=20296

Cheers!

Anupam

My Amazon Wish List

Hi,

I have read on some blogs that adobe is gifting the developers who are in need of the flex books.

I hope this reach them

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/RWRA27U1W234/

I am in really need of this books

I hope they are shipping in India

Cheers!

Anupam

Flex Pizza Builder

Hi,

From the day I start working on FLEX 2.0 i m always amazed with the functionality and the kind of User experience it gives for the user. Just browsing somewhere and seen this amazing application of a traditional Pizza order system that we use to learn in the Masters of Computer Application

Great work Ryan!!!

http://ryanfavro.newmediateam.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/3/24/Flex-Pizza-Builder 

Multiple Instances of the Yahoo Map- Part II

Hi,

Few days back i was trying to achieve the task of having multiple instance of yahoo map in an application;

I got the dirty workaround to this

What i have done is :

Create an actionscript class that extend the YahooMapService class.

Create an instance of the class in a base state of the Flex Application file

Create a view stack with different views in this application file and each of the component that you are using in side the view stack must have a load map method that accepts the map object.

This method will load this map object in the container using the addChild method of the container.

One strange thing that i have noticed is every time you load the component in the view stack you have to make the yahoo map object null.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,

Anupam

P.S: If somebody have the better solution to this plz provide the ideas here.

Hello world!

Hi guys,

This is the first post that i m writing

I am very enthusiastic about the Web 2.0 and RIA so trying to write my adventures with it.

Watch out this space for more stuff!

Cheers!
Anupam