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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
As you might have seen in the demo, i want to display 100+ charts on a map. Until today, i created a chart-object (along with dataProvider, Series, and stuff) for every view to be displayed. This rendered the application unresponsive for some seconds, showed no progress and consumed lots of memory. While reworking my display [...]
I want to add 1000+ child elements to a flex container that can be moved around with the mouse ( using startDrag / MouseEvent.MOVE). On a first try, i used a Canvas to hold the elements and a class derived from UIComponent as element. Adding 1K of children rendered the application almost completely unresponsive. I [...]
