The ExternalInterface has a multitude of uses.  One example is developing C++ applications with a Flex UI. In this example, I’ll show how to using ExternalInterface using ActionScript and JavaScript. We’ll send text back and forth as well as set color to shapes.Check out the example and the source. Note:  I started using the Flex C++ Bridge  using Visual C++ Express, [...]

During the next three months, all of us will be seeing many decorations from around the world. Since I just finished decorating my place with the usual ghosts, spiderwebs, and pumpkins, I was inspired to use the decorator pattern to decorate a pumpkin in Flex. Imagine a pumpkin, plain and orange, nothing special. Then, decorate that pumpkin [...]

Justin Opitz released an alpha of As3isolib is an open-source ActionScript 3.0 Isometric Library developed to assist in creating isometrically projected content (such as games and graphics) targeted for the Flash Player platform. I was eager to check out this library with Flex.  I was messing around with an example file that came with the current release and hooked in some [...]