Huge thanks to both Jodie O’Rourke and Alex Rogers for their presentations at last months meeting. The videos, presentations and source files in the presentations section.

First up this month, Matt Pollitt & Juan Delgado with on Developing Flash Apps to Run 24/7, following him seasoned LFPUG speaker Richard Leggett is back with a session on the multiplying platform Android.

London Flash Platform User Group 27th May 2010 (27/05/2010)

Sponsored by Flash on the Beach & friends of ED.

We still have places left on our training course The Beginners Guide to Away 3D. To book a place on this course please contact training AT lfpug.com.

As usual my thanks go out to Bartek Drozdz and Rob Bateman for their sessions last month. You can find the videos, presentations and source files in the presentations section.

First up this month, Jodie O’Rourke with our first session at LFPUG on Adobe’s Open Source Media Framework, following him, with all the talk on HTML5 and JavaScript we have Alex Rogers presenting a session on the JavaScript framework MooTools.

London Flash Platform User Group 29th April 2010 (29/04/2010)

Sponsored by friends of ED.

Also we still have places left on our training course The Beginners Guide to Away 3D. To book a place on this course please contact training AT lfpug.com.

Just a quick post to info readers that Flash on the Beach tickets went on sale yesterday.

Mega Early Bird and Ultra Early Bird tickets have already sold out. Don’t leave it too late for the Super Early Bird tickets!

LFPUG have teamed up again with Rob Bateman to offer another training session on Away3D in May titled ‘The Beginner’s Guide to Away3D’.

This is a personal (maximum of 14 attendees), hands-on, 2 days training with an Away3D co-founder and lead developer.

The Beginner’s Guide to Away3D.

In a couple of previous posts I introduced DataNavigators and their skinable counterparts…

Spark: DataNavigators
Spark: DataNavigators – Elements instead of ItemRenderers

In the later of the 2 posts I showed how you can use a DataNavigator with IVisualElements instead of using itemRenderers so that each element can be an instance of a different class (spark.components.DataGroup & spark.components.List can be used in the same way). This achieves deferred instantiation of the elements.

To do this you had to set the itemRenderer property to null, and then add you elements to the component, but have them wrapped inside an ArrayList. The 2 steps weren’t ideal so I thought I get together a Navigator class that got around this, enabling you to use it as expected.

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Massive thanks to Mathieu Gosselin for his session last month. As usual you can find the videos, presentations and source files in the presentations section (apologies I forgot to press record for my presentation).

First up this month, all the way from Stockholm, Bartek Drozdz will be doing a session on ‘Flash & Unity3D’, and following him keeping a 3D theme will be regular Rob Bateman with a session on the Away3D library.

London Flash Platform User Group 25th March 2010 (25/05/2010)

Sponsored by friends of ED.

Massive thanks to Dennis Ippel and Adam Chappell for their presentations last month. As usual you can find the videos, presentations and source files in the presentations section.

First up this month will be Mathieu Gosselin with a session on ‘Efficient Programming Practices’, and following him will be me with some examples of the new features in Flex 4.

London Flash Platform User Group 25th February 2010 (25/02/2010)

Sponsored by flash scope.

Also don’t forget Richard Lord will doing presentation about frameworks presenting down at FLUG tonight, and Iain Lobb will be doing a session on “Creating Successful Flash Games” at London Flash Developers and Designers Meetup Group this Thursday.

Spoilt for choice!

We built this component some time ago for use on a gaming/gambling site.

We required a way to alert the user that something important was going on in one of their games, but we didn’t want to use a popup, blocking the user from their current interaction. This was because the user may have been in the process of doing something important or timed.

Each game sat inside its own view component, and these were then housed in the AlertTabNavigator. It enabled use to show when a view required attention, without getting in the way.

Here’s a couple of examples. The first shows how dispatching an event from one of the children on the AlertTabNavigator updates the tab to show its alert styles, or resort back to its standard non alert styles. Selecting an alerted tab, always dismisses the alert.

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Recently good friend Adam Robertson spent some time upgrading all my WordPress blogs to try and help combat the masses of spam and crap that were being hidden in the pages.

Many thanks Adam!