Be sure to check it out! May 29th in Orlando, take the family and hang with that world famous mouse after! The all day jammed packed day of Flex/Flash topics is to be held on the campus of The University of Central Florida. Its a inexpensive sure way to get some good info from experts in the field that will be speaking. Head to Flash Camp Orlando
peas
DK
As promised, below please find the URLs to the ppt file and the AIRVJ application code. The code is a Eclipse archive, should be able to simply import it into your workspace. You can also check the code out via SVN at the Google code site: http://code.google.com/p/airvj/
Under the source tree there exists a Config.as file. Enter your AWSAccessKeyId to enable the Amazon integration. Also in this file enter your lyricsFlyAPIKey that you can get from http://lyricsfly.com/api/
The ppt file of course can be found on your USB key distributed by those Masters of the 360 Conferences Multiverse.
happy coding and rawkin!
peas
DK
So, there you have it: My results
Thanks to those that filled out evals for me. All in all, not bad for suffering through the flu 3 days prior to presenting.
I have yet to get around to write a ‘What I thought About 360|Flex’ post yet, may get to it this week. THe skinny is though that it RAWKED! Tom and John certainly got it going on, eh?
Peas
DK
So, I’ve been wanting to play around with this PaperVison3D schtuff. Why? Well, I certainly do not use 3D in my job, I just wanted to! Unfortunately time demands, new baby and all, keep me from really digging into it. Add to this, almost all the stuff so far that I have seen is Flash based…as in not Flex. There are a couple Flex based examples. One is in the PaperVision3D source called FlexFocus. Another recent great example is from that master robe wearer Doug McCune himself. He calls it CoverFlow. In either of these Flex based cases, terms like Sprite and Clipping are used, Flash terms again that I’m not all familiar with. Though I can brag about playing with Sprites on the C64 and IBM PC way back when, but those were wholly different animals. Thus I sat down and employed the all to famous design patter: Hack It Up. The result? A cross of Canvas3D and Lee Brimelow’s Carousel FLA.
Now, what the heck does the code do? I’ve commented some where I know, there is much in there I just don’t follow…yet. The short and skinny: the images are placed in planes, the planes are positioned and rotated in such a way to appear to be in a 3D carousel, this carousel is fixed, the buttons tell the camera to render the scene from a different vantage point along a circle. The math behind it is elementary, though I’m sure there is a bit more to that PaperVision3D Plane, BitMapMaterial, etc…
What does my version add to the mix? One, its Flex based…use the tag Luke! Two, I have incorporated the use of a public dataProvider to inject the URLs of the images. Yes Dorothy, you can change this dataProvider at runtime. See the example below, the test button at the bottom swaps the dataProvider.
Carousel Roundabout Exmaple
Source code is fully available via the context menu of FP.
DK
ok, hoping to step out and coin a new term: BRIA
BRIA is Business Rich Internet Applications. Idea is a RIA and BRIA are a little different to me. Consider Finetune, Pandora, or Scrapblog in contrast to say BusinessObjects, Fidelity Mortgage Search, or Viziant. BRIA are a subset of RIA focused on pure business applications such as the Enterprise sector.
Go ahead, use it, steal it, let me sue you for it. hehe…jk
DK
http://ray.camdenfamily.com/index.cfm/2006/7/27/Spry-Presentation-RecordingZip
Ray’s got a great breezo on his Spry presentation at the AZ Flash and MM User Group.
DK
Ok, so I dove into the Spry world last week. As a first example, I wrote a People Soft position tree ‘crawler’. A ‘crawler’ is what I call a app that crawls up and down a position tree via drill downs/ups. In short a org chart. For most of the repots I have to write, this type of approach is used, displaying rolled up data along the way. So, lets jump right in, shall we?
First off you will probably want to take a look at the app, eh?
http://cubicleman.com/spryexamples/orgcrawl/orgcrawl.html
Yeah, its ugly, but hey it’s a example of Spry code, not CSS, eh? 
