unable to open ‘/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in/sdks/3.2./…’

No need to give up, make the resource yourself:

- Open the SDK’s root folder. On a Mac, it is likely to be here:

/Applications/Adobe Flex Builder 3 Plug-in/skds/3.2

- Execute this command

./bin/copylocale en_US de_DE

Now recompile - probably clean it before - your project your Flex project. Everything should look fine.

As I read of Flex SDK 3.2.0 and AIR 1.5, I decided to upgrade. While the update install itself finished fine - FlexBuilder failed to run the compiled app. Actually, FlexBuild printed this error message:

Error creating AIR file: 305: ERROR, 10, http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.1

If you see such an error message, open the application’s descriptor file -app.xml and review the second line, which should contain an XML namespace declaration like

http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.1

Change the postfix version number to 1.5

http://ns.adobe.com/air/application/1.1

and you are fine: The compiler just needs to know which lib to compile against.

As I read about this offering, I expected a Silverlight proof of concept. Actually, it is not:‘msn Movies’ is a service fully based on Adobe Flash technology. You guess, why

To review Microsoft’s Flash offering, have a look here.

So machte es in den letzten Tagen kaal im grosseweltblog und beschreibt den fundamentalen Zusammenhang zwischen der Anzahl von Personen eines Meetings und der Anzahl getroffener Entscheidungen. Mehr als 14 Personen reduzieren die Anzahl der Entscheidungen nicht mehr - denn bei 14 Personen kommt bereits rein gar nix mehr raus.

Weil es sicher noch einige weitere unterhaltsame Zusammenhänge gibt, werde ich am Wochenende in den nächsten 2 Wochen mal eine kleine Fingerübung machen und das ganze in Flex gießen. Könnte so oder so ähnlich aussehen:

Here is how to do it:

- Create the back-end data source for the application
- Create the basic Flex front-end application
- Create a back-end PDF generation service
- Create a PDF with form fields that will be used to store the data
- Modify the Flex application to read data from the PDF
- Add a way for the user to generate a PDF from the Flex application
- Merge the final Flex application into the PDF template

To learn more, you might wish to download Adobe’s LiveCycle Data Services. Note, that a single CPU version of LiveCycle Data Services is free - even free in production environments. If you haven’t checked this out, go ahead! LiveCycle Data Services is great way to make your Flex apps really interactive!

Note for users with Mac systems: Download the Linux version of LiveCycle Data Services and run the installer. When the installer asks wether to do a full install inclusive Tomcat etc. or a WAR install, choose the WAR install. Put lcds.war - the LiveCycle Data Services Server - and the lcds-samples.war in the webapps folder. Additionally, put sampledb in there too.

Then restart your app-server - in my case Jetty - to get the stuff deployed.

Adobe ist in diesem Jahr besonders spendabel und bietet eine kostenlose Reise zur MAX nach Mailand im ADOBE MAX BUS an. Der Bus fährt am 30.11 und hält in den Städten Hamburg, Hannover, Dortmund, Köln, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, München und Mailand. Der Bus ist perfekt mit Pizza, Strom und WLAN mit 6 UMTS Gateways ausgerüstet.

Here a short list of what’s inside the currently PDF-only GroovyMag:

GroovyMagThe Future of Java is Groovy : Shawn Hartsock lays out his views for why Groovy should be your next language :: Getting to know your Grails : Walk through the basics (and not so basics) of Grails in this tutorial from Robert Fischer :: Building Rich Swing Applications with Groovy : Andres Almiray takes you through building a Swing application with Groovy. Part 1 in a mutlipart series. :: Groovy In The Wild : GroovyMag talks with companies who’ve made the switch to Groovy and Grails. This month: Minggl.com :: Community news : Catch up with the latest Groovy and Grails news with Dave Klein. :: Plugin Corner : Learn about a new Grails plugin each month with Dave Klein.

BTW: This reminds me to my idea to create a Flex compiler as a grails plugin

- Object-oriented game-style animation using libAnim2D [demo here]
- Preview a PDF inside your AIR application
- CPreferencesManager : A preferences manager for AIR
- Executing several SQL statements with one instance of SQLStatement

For my posts, I received a free printed issue of Flex 3 Cookbook from Adobe as a gift! Thx, nice idea!

Deutschland hat sein erstes Flex Camp und es kommt am 06.11.2008 nach Hamburg! Im Rahmen des Flex Camps werden bekannte Spezialisten der Flex Szene Ideen und Konzepte präsentieren.

Weitere Infos zur Veranstaltung und zur Anmeldung finden sich bei der Flex User Group Hamburg.

Wer ein eigenes Projekt vor Ort live vorstellen möchte, ist gehalten, ein Laptop mitzubringen.

Sample usecase: Make window positions persist after relaunch of an application:

1. Create an instance:

<tracker:CPreferencesManager    id=”thePrefs” />

2. Attach windowMove events to your Window:

windowMove=”thePrefs.setPreference(’main.window.x’,
   this.nativeWindow.x.toString() );
   thePrefs.setPreference(’main.window.y’, this.nativeWindow.y.toString() );”

3. After creationComplete, move the window to its position of the one but last launch:

var posX:int = int( thePrefs.getPreference(’main.window.x’ ) );
var posY:int = int( thePrefs.getPreference(’main.window.y’ ) );
move( posX, posY );      

The implementation:

package com.your.company
{
   import flash.filesystem.File;
   import flash.filesystem.FileMode;
   import flash.filesystem.FileStream;
   import flash.utils.ByteArray;
   import flash.utils.Dictionary;
   import flash.utils.IDataInput;
   import flash.utils.IDataOutput;
   import flash.utils.IExternalizable;
   
   import mx.controls.Alert;
   
   public class CPreferencesManager implements IExternalizable
   {
      
      private var _prefValues:Dictionary;
      private   var   _prefsStream:FileStream;
      
      public function CPreferencesManager()
      {

         _prefValues = new Dictionary();
         loadPreferences();
         
      }
      
      public function loadPreferences():void {
   
         var fp: File = File.applicationStorageDirectory;
         
         fp = fp.resolvePath( ‘prefs.xml’ );
         
         if ( fp.exists ) {
            
            _prefsStream = new FileStream();
            _prefsStream.open( fp, FileMode.READ);
            
            readExternal( _prefsStream );
            _prefsStream.close();
            
         } else {
            _prefValues[ 'appName' ] = ‘tracker’; // test-code
            savePreferences();
         }

      }
      
      public function savePreferences():void {

         var fp: File = File.applicationStorageDirectory;
         
         fp = fp.resolvePath( ‘prefs.xml’ );
         
         _prefsStream = new FileStream();
         _prefsStream.open( fp, FileMode.WRITE );
         
         writeExternal( _prefsStream );
         _prefsStream.close();
         
      }
      
      public function setPreference( name:String, value:Object ):void {
         
         _prefValues[ name ] = value;
         savePreferences();
         
      }

      public function getPreference( name:String ):Object {
         
         return _prefValues[ name ];
         
      }
      
      
      
      public function readExternal(input:IDataInput):void
    {
       
    var bytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
       input.readBytes( bytes, 0, input.bytesAvailable );

    var q:Object = bytes.readObject();
    
    _prefValues = new Dictionary();
    
    for( var p:Object in q ) {
       _prefValues[ p ] = q[p];
    }
    
    // Alert.show( _prefValues.toString() );
    
    }
   
      public function writeExternal(output:IDataOutput):void
    {

    var bytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
    bytes.writeObject( _prefValues );
    
    output.writeBytes( bytes );
    }

   }
}