Second Ukrainian Flash Platform User Group official meeting

This time Ukrainian Flash Platform User Group meeting has been held in Kiev. Two previous meetings have been held in Kharkov. We have gathered at cozy Golden Gate Pub of Mirovaya Karta chain near Golden Gates. Ilya Panin from Kharkov has compared different IDEs (Adobe Flex Builder, FDT, FlashDevelop, IDEA) and summarized that as a whole Adobe Flex Builder is the best choice to develop Flex applications now. Tatyana Belaya from Moscow has told about sound visualization using SoundMixer.computeSpectrum() method with snowflakes on background. Roman Shuper has shared his experience using Apache Ant to deploy Flex projects and also told about conditional compilation and running executables from AIR applications.

Flex SDK coding conventions and best practices

Adobe has published Flex SDK coding conventions and best practices. Now it is mostly about ActionScript 3.0. I work in a team for a long time, so we have created our own conventions long time ago, because it is a must for collaborative development. It is based on ActionScript 2.0 Best Practices, Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language and the common sense. Nevertheless, it's a great effort from Adobe, because vendor supported guidelines are always more respected and tend to become industry standard. Now I hope Adobe would also extend the document with MXML conventions.

First Ukrainian Flash Platform User Group official meeting

The meeting has been hosted by Kharkov office of GlobalLogic, formerly known as Validio. Eldar Prilutsky has introduced ActionScript 3.0 event model, Rostislav Siryk has shared his experience with PureMVC framework while developing Moscow vector map and Denis Papazov has told about Flash Media Server.

Macromedia Flash 2 box!

Text control with truncateToFit property support

As you probably know, Label control supports truncateToFit property, while Text doesn't. Even if you explicitly set it to true in your particular Text instance, nothing happens. I have created TruncatedText class that acts the similar way as Label does. If a TruncatedText instance is sized to be smaller than its text, the text is truncated with "...":