Tuesday July 27th Meeting – 6:30PM ITT Tech
We are meeting once again this coming Tuesday July 27th @ ITT Tech in room THEORY 3.
Schedule:
1. Using the AIR 2.0 NativeProcess API to do things that AIR can’t
Andrew Westberg (www.flexjunk.com) will be discussing a consulting project he worked on that needed a multi-threaded high performance C++ application to manipulate audio in near real-time. The client wanted to use AIR for it’s superior usability and design capabilities, but was limited by the Adobe Flash platform in other areas. Namely, limitations in audio file format support and performance for calculation-intense applications.
2. Building Modular Applications in Flex
Sam Souhrada (www.samsouhrada.com) will be discussing the benefits of building modular flex applications. The presentation will include a general overview and construction of a small sample application. Code samples will be posted after the presentation.
Modules let you split your application into several pieces, or modules. The main application, or shell, can dynamically load other modules that it requires, when it needs them. It does not have to load all modules when it starts, nor does it have to load any modules if the user does not interact with them. When the application no longer needs a module, it can unload the module to free up memory and resources. (From Adobe.com)
Hope to see you all there!
Here is a good article to read if you are wanting to look at various ways of embedding Flash Content into Flex. This example shows 3 different ways and includes source code.
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Adobe’s defense of the Flash Platform:
Click here to view
I found this article online and thought I would re-post. It demonstrates how to use masks in Adobe Flex.
http://www.insideria.com/2008/01/flex-graphics-tricks-part-1-ma.html
We started off watching an introductory video about the latest CS5 Release. For more information on CS5 visit this website:
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/
Remember if you are purchasing an Adobe product you qualify for a 15% discount being a user group member. See the previous post for instructions on redeeming that discount.
We finished a five part series on Cairngorm. You can review the video we watched and download source code at the following link:
http://www.davidtucker.net/2007/11/30/getting-started-with-cairngorm-%E2%80%93-part-5/
We also briefly discussed becoming certified in Adobe Products. Here is a link with all of the test and prep-guides. We will be talking more about this in future meetings:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/ace/main.html
We are meeting once again this coming Tuesday June 22nd @ 6:30PM in ITT Tech in room THEORY 3
Schedule:
1. Preview of CS5 new features
2. SOFTWARE RAFFLE – Come for a chance to win any of the premium Adobe CS5 Suites Free of Charge!
3. Discussion on Cairngorm 3 (Benefits, Transitioning Projects Over)
4. Final Video on Cairngorm 2
Hope to see you all there!
ITT Technical Institute is on the north side of Indianapolis, at:
9511 Angola Court
Indianapolis 46268
(View a map)
There will be no UG meeting this month. We hope everyone has a fun Memorial Day weekend.
We will see you next month on June 22nd!
Cairngorm National Park
Cairngorm 3 is now released! This is big news in the Flex Framework world. Get all of the details on these links:
http://blogs.adobe.com/auhlmann/archives/2010/05/cairngorm_3_rel.html
and
http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/cairngorm/Cairngorm
