Archive for the ‘AIR / Apollo’ Category

Adobe AIR Tour in München

… switching to german to get the extra stickers … Am 11 Juni checkt die Adobe onAIR Tour in München in der Muffathalle ein. Ich habe mich schon lange angemeldet, aber erst jetzt den Blog Eintrag von Mike Chambers gesehen. Da man für einen muttersprachlichen Eintrag nicht nur eine Postkarte bekommt, sondern auch noch Aufkleber, [...]


Decoding RDS and TMC

Since the beginning of this year, my partners at vianovis have licensed teleatlas vector-maps and are busy creating pixel-maps for general use; compatible to zoomify and therefore maptech. Now that i have access to real street maps, i opened my drawer and pulled out an old project of mine: decoding RDS (Radio Data System) and [...]


AIR 1.0 available, G/O/grafx 0.910 too!

As of today, Adobe has made available the 1.0 build of their AIR runtime. I felt urged to publish something too. Especially as i had promised to show what i was working on in the last months spare time and what most of this blog’s entries were all about. Here it is: G/O/grafx So what [...]


Using RSL’s to cache framework libraries

I’ve just switched from “merged into code” to “runtime shared” for framework.swc, datavisualisation.swc and rpc.swc. This brings the mere application code size from 518KB down to a very good 188KB. Only one issue popped up: You need to move up framework.swc under <Project>/Properties/Flex Build Path/Library Path/Flex 3 to be above datavisualisation.swc to properly resolve runtime [...]


Layering map and symbol data

Recently i updated the mapTech demo to show 3 layers at once. Please be sure to adjust the 3 sliders at the bottom to set the upper 2 layers alpha value. Next step will be a drag & drop enabled kit to build customized layer sets of both static image/map and dynamic symbolic/charting data.