Monthly Archives: December 2009

Alternative Implementation of Grant Skinner’s Spelling Plus library (SPL)

Rain recently purchased a multi-seat site license for a great tool that is certain to save a lot of time and headache: Grant Skinner’s Spelling Plus Library (SPL – info here). This post describes some aspects of the implementation.  You … Continue reading

By: Bryan Elkins Categories: development / flash / flex Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

This ‘Aint No Heavy Metal

Those who’ve worked closely with Rain knows we’ve been a fan of using frameworks to bootstrap our development process. They have oodles of advantages over the re-invent-the-wheel approach, and our involvement with the PHP framework world has been intimate. I … Continue reading

By: John David Anderson Categories: Li3 / development / php Tags: , , , , , ,

Showing Progress for Multiple Loaders

A common thing to do in most any rich application is to show progress while loading remote assets. In ActionScript, the bytesLoaded and bytesTotal properties of classes such as LoaderInfo and URLLoader provide the needed information to show a fancy … Continue reading

By: Aaron Hardy Categories: development / flex Tags: , , , ,