Google ads may not be: Integrated into a software application of any kind, including toolbars. Displayed in pop-ups or pop-unders. Obscured by elements on a page.

Trust me – I tried to do this a couple years ago with a Flex app I have and was told by them that it clearly violates their TOS.

URLMapping is excellent, and simplifies most of the use cases.
There is one use case where using the URLMapping tag can be a bit tricky.

Imagine you have a business method that you are sure that is only called internally by your application if a certain condition is applied (example: the user is logged in).
You want that the call to that method (via [EventHandler]) changes the URL, but you don’t want the reverse: if the user fills up the url, you want the method to be only called if a condition applies (i.e. The user is Logged In).

For solving this case, I would recommend adding a new argument to URLMapping: “direction = [fromBrowser; toBrowser; both]“. It would indicate if that tag 1- Listens ONLY to URL changes calling the method; 2- Updates ONLY the URL 3- Does both things. This way, the following would be possible:

[EventHandler("BusinessEvent.DO_OPERATION")]
[URLMapping(“/myOperation”, direction=”toBrowser”)
public function doBusinessOperation():void { }

[URLMapping(“/myOperation”, direction=”fromBrowser”)
public function tryToDoBusinessOperation():void
{
if (condition) dispatchEvent(new BusinessEvent(BusinessEvent.DO_OPERATION))
}

Want we could use URLMapping like before, by using the direction=”both”, which would be default argument.

What do you think?

http://balakrishnanvijay.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/cylindrical-view-with-animatio/

It is not necessary as I had thought, to have a fixed number of states. All it takes for animation is to calculate the finalMatrix3D as Ryan has done and interpolate to it.

Once again, thanks Ryan !

The trick though is to display only a fixed number of objects at all times, rather have only a fixed set of positions that objects take. What is done in that example is that a set of matrix3D objects are allocated for each position(angle) and makes every object repeatedly “interpolate” from the initial matrix to the final matrix for every timer interval.

PS : Your layouts were very useful in learning 3-d layouts ! I have now done a couple of 3-d layouts of my own. Cheers !

Did you get any decent answers to the Animation?-question?

I’m trying to animate layout changes to children, when children are added and removed to and from a Group. So far I’ve experimented with setting the moveEffect of the Group’s children. But as you expect this works only in the cases when there are no changes to the Group during the playing Move effect.

Probably I’ll write a blog post when I get to a solution.

Best Regards,
Vladimir

Unable to transcode /assets/pf_ronda_seven.ttf. MinimalComps/src/com/bit101/components Component.as line 51

Severity and Description Path Resource Location Creation Time Id
transcoding parameter ‘embedAsCFF’ is not supported by ‘flex2.compiler.media.FontTranscoder’ testApplicationCreation/src/com/bit101/components Component.as line 51 1275921796859 167

Does anyone know how to fix this?
Thanks

I can not run your project in flash builder 4

an error occurs at this line in CoverFlowLayout.as

for ( var i:int = 0; i < numElements; i++ )
{
var element:ILayoutElement = target.getElementAt( i );
….

it always return null

Thanks

Thank you,
THomasB