20 Teams, 44 Days, 48 Matches, 64 hours of rugby, and its ours, the William Web Ellis trophy is coming to South Africa for the second time, and will stay here for the next 4 years. We are the only team in the 07 RWC not to loose a match, and deservingly so. Percy Montgomery is the tournament's top point scorer, and Bryan Habana equaled Jonah Lomu's try scoring record (8) in a world cup. Bryan also won IRB player of the year. All facts that emphasize that we are a world class team.

I have finished the first component which accompanies the DynaSkin Library. The button component uses the "Button" "SkinObject" type, with a label and some positioning parameters. See DynaSkin Types.

Parameters include:

1. Label horizontal alignment
2. Label vertical alignment
3. Label Text

All other properties are managed by the accompanying Skin Xml file. See example file here.
Files needed:

• DynaButton Component.zip
  • File includes the source .FLA file.
  • DynaButton Class.
  • Demo skin folder and files
• DynaSkin Library

Here is a demo of the different types the DynaSkin Library currently supports.

• Single - Only one state, used for single resizable images.
• Double - Two states, example: A window header with a normal and disabled state.
• Item - Three states, example: A item in a list with a normal state a selected state and a disabled state.
• Button - Four states. Up, Over, Down and Disabled.

Each on of these Types have there own default Transition class which gives them there behaviors. Custom Transitions are available but will be explained at a later date.

Demo Files needed:

• DynaSkinTypes Example
• DynaSkin Library V1.0

This is a simple app (just an experiment), that makes use of SystemTrayIcon and NativeMenu (some of the new features in AIR Beta2). It doesn't do anything, just demonstrates some of the new functionality of AIR Beta 2.

I have 3 movieclips on stage, one contains a textfield that updates (counts), one is a vector animation, and one is a sequence of images. I use setInterval to create bitmapdata evey 40 millisenconds, and then update the SystemTrayIcon, so it animates.

I have also implemented NativeMenu, that creates a contextmenu when you right click on the tray icon. The menu item that you select, gets checked, and disabled, and changes the animation accordingly.

Note: you will need the AIR Beta 2 Runtime. I have only tested it on PC.

Here is a the AIR file, and well as the source code. Hope someone finds it handy.

What a way to start a week.........with good news from Adobe....Adobe AIR Beta 2 is out .... GRAB the new Beta 2 runtime. To compliment this new release, is the new Adobe AIR update Beta 2 for Flash CS3 Professional.

Something interesting.....you can run both versions (Beta 1 and Beta 2) in parallel, granting you the ability to run AIR apps authored for Beta 1 while you have Beta 2 installed. Unfortunately, apps authored for Beta 1 will not run on Beta 2 alone, you need Beta 1 installed as well. I tested this, by uninstalling the AIR Runtime (both versions), and installing Beta 2. I then tried to run MICON, authored for Beta 1, which failed (prompted me about an older version of the runtime....). I then installed the Beta 1 Runtime, which told me that I was about to add support for AIR version 1.

More sample applications for Beta 2 have been published on Adobe's site.

New Livedocs content for getting Beta 2.

New getting started page for AIR Beta 2.

Beta 2 release notes.

Good looking new design of Adobe Devnet is up. It has accordian-type navigation panels that allow collapsing of certain sections of the page - ajaxed. I like it.