Jonnie Spratley

Adobe Flex – Flash Clothing

Here is a fun little library (kinda) that I created because I wanted to learn how to integrate Flash and Flex, the purpose of this experiment is to see how and what could I do in Flash/Illustrator and use in Flex, there is more great things that could have been done but o’well. You can test [...]

Textpattern: My Flexible Plugin Attempt

My First plugin attempt, I wanted to make a power user editor for making quick edits to the textpattern database. You know that it gets old waiting for the page to reload every time in textpattern when you just want to make a few quick changes to the sections. Ok lets see how far I got. There [...]

Adobe Flex – JSON Schema Tree

Last night I noticed now Zend IDE has the Data Source Explorer set up like a tree of your database and tables, columns, keys, etc. I thought that was pretty cool, so I decided to do the same thing. But with my buddy JSON and his right hand man PHP, we will let Flex come and play [...]

Adobe Flex – Flex 3 & AIR Exam Guide (Vol 1)

On Monday January 12th, I will take my exam to become a Adobe Certified Expert in Flex & AIR.

Adobe Flex – Mini Cookbook (Vol 2)

Web Service Recipes and solutions include. Recipe 2.1 – Getting Started with XML-RPC Recipe 2.2 – Requests with XML-RPC Recipe 2.3 - Authentication and XML-RPC Recipe 2.4 – Getting Started with REST Recipe 2.5 – REST Service Class I will be making more additions to this when I find some more time. Take a look.

Adobe Flex – My Code is Your Code

A bunch of code that I tend to re-use and re-use. The contents are listed in the table of contents below. As changes occur this files will be updated. Keep in mind that this is raw uncut code. So some might be sloppy and some might be clean, some might not work, and some might save [...]

Adobe Flex – Amfphp Tutorial

I put together this little walk through for the visual learners out there. We do the whole process of setting up AMFPHP to creating our server side objects and services. It is a really good thing to watch to get up to speed with Flash Remoting. We create a application called Flex Contacts, a desktop [...]

Adobe Flex – File Upload and Download

Have you ever wanted to be able to upload a file in Flex? Or how about download a file in Flex? Well I am going to provide the code to do just that. With Adobe Flex’s sandbox issues I could only get this to work inside Air, but working with the web browser I kept [...]

Adobe Air – Connection Manager

Here is a very useful script that I re-use and re-use when building Air applications. Its a simple script I am sure you can make out what is going on here. ConnectionManager.as package com.jonniespratley.air.managers { import air.net.URLMonitor; import flash.events.StatusEvent; import flash.net.URLRequest; import mx.controls.Alert; public class ConnectionManager { private var statusEvent:StatusEvent; private var urlMonitor:URLMonitor; private var showAlert:Boolean; private var message:String; [Bindable] public var connectionURL:String; [Bindable] public var isConnected:Boolean; public function ConnectionManager( showAlert:Boolean [...]

Adobe Flex – Connecting to WordPress

Here is a very good example of connecting to your WordPress powered blog via XML-RPC and with Adobe Air. Requirements Adobe Air Runtime Adobe Flex Builder AS3 RPC library   Here is the link for the screencast.