this blog is due to lack of time ‘outdated’…

I know many files are already deleted from the hosting space, and that I did not reply on comments … But there is a big time issue atm

I would kindy redirect you guys to Creative-Geeks , where I will check more often on comments and be more of a help in case it’s needed …

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I just ported the service to an ActionScript 3.0 API to open it up for other Flash and Flex developers …

Get your SWC library here. Online documentation for the API.

Add the .SWC file to the libs folder of your flex project.

Calling the API functions, can easily be done.

Download the Flex project.

For a sample and more information , please visit my original post on the other blog.

Degrafa is an open source declarative graphics framework for Flex used by some of the industry’s top designers and developers. The framework can be used for a wide variety of purposes, ranging from rich user interfaces to intense graphics editing. Degrafa wants to enable the developers to create dynamic , runtime graphics with MXML , it’s like creating custom MXML components but then with graphics. The MXML code can hold different attributes like fills , strokes , shapes and others to define the graphic element. With their way of thinking they will eventually enable all the designers to create interactive graphical applications without having to go through the hassle of learning ActionScript.

Features?

• A library of pre-composed shapes for you to use as well as the ability to create your own.
• Use SVG path data to create complete reusable shapes. • Flexible options for fills and strokes.
• Binding of properties for Fills, Strokes and Geometry.
• Advanced CSS support for layered backgrounds, complex border control and background image positioning based on CSS 3.
• Productive features like derivatives, composition reuse, shape libraries, repeaters, and other utilities that allow you to do more with less code.
• Light weight model-based architecture.
• Compatibility with Flex 2 and Flex 3.

What is Google Analytics?

Google Analytics is a great, free for all, tool for a detailed tracking of the website visits. It certainly boosts up your knowledge off the visitors and enables you to get a full , detailed report about your website.

The main features this analytic tool offers

Advanced Segmentation

With this option the administrator can filter the site traffic into different segments. They can filter on example : “Paid traffic” or “Direct traffic” . Or they can easliy make their own custom segment. This way enables the admins to look closer to the personal interests of the visitors.

Motion Charts

The motion charts are a visual way to look at the traffic generated via your website. These charts enable the admin a multi-dimensional analysis to the Google Analytics report. It lets you create relationships with traffic data that are difficult to see in the text-based reports.

Custom Reports

Present the information in a nice editable and saveable report , so you can easliy organize all the different information the way you want. With an easy drag and drop interface you are able to make your own report , with multiple levels of sub-reports. These reports are saved for as long you want.

Fast Implementation

Implementation can be achieved in no – time , and is very easily done. You don’t need to have much knowledge of web programming. Google does everything for you.

Keyword and Campaign Comparison

Track and compare all your ads, email newsletters, affiliate campaigns, referrals, paid links, and keywords on Google and other search engines.

Axiis is an open source data visualization framework designed for beginner and expert developers alike.

Whether you are building elegant charts for executive briefings or exploring the boundaries of advanced data visualization research, Axiis has something for you.

Axiis provides both pre-built visualization components as well as abstract layout patterns and rendering classes that allow you to create your own unique visualizations.

Axiis is built upon the Degrafa graphics framework and Adobe Flex 3.

The Axiis website offers a great list of tutorials , documentation and support.
Example?

If you wanna get inspired by Axiis , be sure to check out their example page. But this is what you can expect from this Toolkit.

As many of you already know how to do this in ActionScript 3.0 there are some slight differences while using Flash Lite 2.x.

Why use the Object – Orientated approach?

In my understanding , it is very usefull when working with a larger amount of data. With this approach we can just make Objects with the different properties , and when making these new objects we just assign the matching values to its constructor.

Example: imagine we are working with a XML-file containing thse records

You can see that we the image , id , name and adress fields are re-used with every item. So in this case we can define those properties in 1 Object , and every time a new item is made/loaded we can just assign those new values to its constructor and store them in a array. It’s a better and more structural of working , and you don’t need to push every single item into a new array.

Making a new Object – Class

Importing and Using these custom Object Classes

Conclusion

If you look at the output screen , you will see the traces when creating a new object , and the traces when looping the location array.

This way of working is very interesting for any Flash Lite developer , no need of making different arrays for the properties when we can just create an Object with these properties and push that Object into 1 single array.

I’m still working on it … But below some previews of the actual application … I will update frequently …

Any ideas , comments or … anything do tell me!

Official website : http://www.multi-mania.be/2008/

In this post i will show you briefly on how you can change the standard map marker into any custom marker. Basically we can just send a movieclip to the map marker manager to attach as marker.

Standard Marker

Below is the Actionscript code you can use to achieve a custom marker , this is just a movieclip that is attached to the SimpleMarker and can be used to make the map more interactive by example including buttons or other components inside this movieclip …

Custom Marker Clip with linkage name : markerClip

Following the code above, the outcome would be something like this , but than with your custom image as marker

Final Outcome