If you’ve ever wanted to track your Flash content over the web, then you’d know what a challenge this task entails. In the past, Flash tracking was not provided out of the box, and every implementation had to be customized.
It is now safe to say that tracking your Flash content, has gotten much easier and more accurate. With the assistance of Adobe and other third party developers, the Google Analytics team has developed and released Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe Flash.
What is Google Analytics Tracking For Adobe Flash?
This new Flash tracking code offers all the rich features of the current JavaScript-based version as it translates the current Google Analytics tracking code into the ActionScript 3 programming language that dramatically simplifies the ability to track your Flash, Flex and AS3 content.
Create a loading spinner within Flex with this neat tool called loading spinner. Loading spinner is a Flex component similar to the many “spinner.gif” that are used on Web 2.0 pages. This is a sort of progress indicator that can be used to demonstrate to the user that something is happening.
Loading spinner provides many customizable options which allow you to customize the look and feel of your loader. This flex component can definitely come in handy when developing your next Flex project. Enjoy!
FX Video is an open source video player built with Flex. The FX Video control lets you play an FLV file in a Flex application. It also supports progressive download over HTTP, streaming from the Flash Media Server, and streaming from a Camera object.
The visualization component displays sound spectrum data in a variety of graphical formats and supports the use of bitmap effects without requiring changes to the component class itself. It draws dynamically based on size and keeps memory consumption to a minimum.
This is simply a very nice tool to integrate audio visualizations within any of your Flex projects and offers the flexibility to due so.
In a previous post, I introduced a new MXML component called ImageRail created by Andrei Ionescu of FLEX{er}. Andrei has added updated it to add some new features that were considered missing.
The list of new features include:
imageClick: triggered when there is a click on an image, more precisely, on the canvas that holds an image
imageBackgroundAlpha: able to set the background alpha of the each canvas that hold images
HandCursor: hand cursor upon hovering image
If your interested in learning more about these nice additions to the ImageRail component, be sure to visit FLEX{er} to get all the info.
Andrei Ionescu of FLEX{er} presented a new MXML component called ImageRail. This MXML component displays a series of thumbnails with the capability to scroll them horizontally. While ImageRail has a nice set of features it is fully extendable and is actually encouraged to do so.
Modifiable Parameters Include:
paths: an array containing URLs to images
images: an array containing image objects
imagesToShow: an unsigned integer that specifies the number of images displayed at a time
imagesGap: an unsigned integer that specifies the gap between images
passePartout: an unsigned integer that specifies the white padding around each image
effect: a function that in fact is the easing function (total of 10)
effectDuration: an unsigned integer that specifies the duration in milliseconds
height: a number that specifies the height of the component, based on which all others measures are calculated
