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Cairngorm moving forward

This week Adobe announced that Cairngorm has been moved to from Labs to opensource.adobe.com.

So what does this mean for you, as a developer, building RIAs targeting the Adobe Flex platform on top of Cairngorm?

It means a lot.

The most significant being that Cairngorm now has a formal community based initiative. This in itself facilitates positive growth as it encourages community feedback and collaboration. It allows the community to have an open podium for discussion, collaboration and most important, knowledge sharing.

So how can you contribute? To begin, start by signing up as a member and sharing your thoughts and experiences. Get involved; engage in conversations with the rest of the community. Take a look under the hood; get to know Cairngorm internals (if you don’t already).

I have a lot of confidence in the future of Cairngorm and I think we can all expect good things to come.

August 8, 2008 Agile / Design Patterns / News
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Embedding assets with ResourceBundle

Here’s a quick tip you won’t find easily on live docs…

Yesterday I found myself needing to embed assets in a .properties file (ResourceBundle) however after looking through the Flex documentation I wasn’t completely satisfied with the examples that were available. So I tried something pretty simple and it works perfectly.

To embed an external asset such as an image, audio file, font etc you need only specify an embed directive just as one normally would for an asset, and the file will be embedded in the application. This approach is very much like using the embed directive to embed assets in CSS but only with properties files instead.

For example, suppose you wanted to embed an image named, “image.jpg” using a properties file. To do so simply define the image as follows:

IMAGE = Embed(source="image.jpg")

Then to display the embedded image simply reference the class object to which it has been embedded as follows:

ResourceManager.getInstance().getClass("images", "IMAGE");

And that’s it. Same applies for all embedded assets. I also provided a quick example as well – complete with my son Anthony on the Piano!.

August 4, 2008 News
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