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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Note: You still can’t use FXG due to the following feature requests (please go and vote)

I’ll add a SkinnableNavigator and BorderNavigator class to the library over the next couple of days.

The source for Navigator can be downloaded from our Google Code repository. This is a pretty much botched code pull straight from DataGroup, so It’s likely to change a lot.

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.

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 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.

This example was more alike to how we used it. Each game had its own model which is was bound to. The view would just re-dispatch the 2 AlertEvent types when caught from their model. I’ve just set this up with a simple Timer in the example below.

AlertTabNavigator extends PositionedTabNavigator.

The source for AlertTabNavigator, AlertTabBar, AlertTab & AlertEvent can be downloaded from our Google Code repository

Many thanks Adam!

Arranged by Igor Costa, its mainly Portuguese but there’s a couple of English talks (I won’t be speaking in Portuguese).

I’ll be speaking 7th July at 11:30am GMT.

UPDATE: Actually this will be 14:30 GMT.

Here’s the link to the recording of the presentation.