Search Widget – Robotlegs, Signals, Flight, Minimal Comps, Yahoo Astra

Man, long time, no post.

This video comes from a chat I was having with Renaun Erickson, Garth Braithwaite, and Jac Wright about the value of watching someone work towards a specific goal. So, this video isn’t really a tutorial, it’s more of me just building a search widget and talking about it as I go. Anyway, here it is:

Watch the Search Widget Video Tutorial

Click to view the video in a pop-up. Right-click and “save as” to download the video to your hard drive.

Download Source Code

Libraries used:

Robotlegs
Signals
signals-extensions-CommandSignal
Flight
MinimalComps
Yahoo Astra WebAPIs

haXe Tutorial

This tutorial is for anyone who has heard about haXe, but never had the time to figure out how to set it up. If you guys show a lot of interest in learning more about haXe, I’ll put together a few more tutorials on some of the features, but as of right now I have no idea what kind of interest is out there:

Watch the Intro to haXe Video Tutorial

Click to view the video in a pop-up. Right-click and “save as” to download the video to your hard drive.

*note – I tried “fast forwarding” through the download/install portions, but the camtasia “clip speed” couldn’t accurately fast forward only the parts I selected.

AS3 Signals Tutorial

AS3 Signals is an awesome open-source project created by Robert Penner that will make you re-think the way you approach events in all of your future projects. I put together this video tutorial (mostly to force myself to learn it) and I’ve been REALLY impressed with it so far. Go ahead and give it a watch:

Watch the Intro to AS3 Signals Video Tutorial

Click to view the video in a pop-up. Right-click and “save as” to download the video to your hard drive.

For more info on AS3 Signals, check out http://wiki.github.com/robertpenner/as3-signals/ and join the google group.

Download the swc: as3-signals.swc

*note – I just realized that I said, “it’s really, really easy and it’s also really simple” during the video. That’s really just a testament to how easy it is

*second note – thanks for all the votes on video resolution preferences. I’ll be sticking with 1024×768 from here on out.

Eclipse Theme Designer Preview

I received tons of questions asking about my color scheme in my RobotLegs video and I realized what a pain it is to customize your colors within Eclipse.

So, here’s a little preview of the Eclipse Theme Designer (code-named “Theminator”) that I’m working on. I should have FDT support for AS3 ready sometime next week and then I’ll start working on MXML, FlexBuilder, etc. Once I have something testable, I’ll post it up here and ask for feedback.