Posts Tagged ‘frameworks

A new 0.2.2 release has been posted in the releases section. This release includes a couple of small bug fixes and most importantly, completely revised AsDoc comments for the HTML API Docs.

The second part of Lesson One dives into adding visual elements to the virtual Pages within the FoxR architecture and introduces adding copy and css styles via the GlobalProxyManager and it’s subclasses.

For the first FoxR tutorial, we’ll start with downloading and installing both the framework and the Quick Start Project Template using both to creating an advanced “Hello World” movie. I say advanced because the Project Template includes everything you’ll need to get a compiling project setup fast, including the standard “Hello World” message.

I came across this article browsing for PureMvc info the other day on Active Tuts Plus. It is an excellent walk through of the PureMVC implementation for AS3. It takes you from soup to nuts to build a working Flikr feed gallery. Anyone who is looking at FoxR but is light on  Pure MVC knowledge [...]

I just read an interesting blog post by John Blanco at Rapture in Venice called “Why I Switched from PureMVC to Mate…”. I’ve not heard of Mate before so this was an introduction to a different type of MVC framework besides PureMVC.

Former colleague Richard Kelly identified a big issue today in the Date and Calendar components area. com.foxr.util.DateUtils.as was outright missing from the framework (migration issue when I rebuilt FoxR under PureMVC) and the Calendar components were not updated to support the changes I made to the TextElement text and string support that was revised in [...]

So I am preparing for another small incremental release for the month of November.  I expect, as I prepare demos and such, to find and address problems and functional shortcomings and commit them to the SVN trunk. The main milestone I’m looking towards right now is to having a 0.5 beta ready for release and [...]

The second release of the FoxR framework, 0.2 Alpha, is announced today. This new release features a plethora of bug fixes, feature enhancements and even a few new features. Download the 0.2 Release now. For a complete listing of changes in this release, see the Change Log. While FoxR continues to grow and take shape, [...]