Today marks the first public release of the FlexApps Component 0.9 that takes pictures of your Flex application at runtime for FlexApps on Flickr. It is like adding a camera into your Flex app for uploading images to FlexApps. Simply add the component into your app and run it. To take a picture, you just: Right-Click > Send to FlexApps!

 

FlexApps on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/FlexApps

 

Download FlexApps Component 0.9

http://www.onflex.org/flexapps/FlexApps.zip

 

The component makes it easy to send high quality images of your Flex application to FlexApps for approval. I wrote a parallel application for approving the images uploaded through the FlexApps Component making it easy for me to process lots of images.

 

How to use FlexApp Component:

 

1. Unzip the FlexApps.zip into your Flex project.

2. Use the "FlexAppExample_Usage.mxml" as an example. You will need to create a namespace for com.flexapps.* and denote your apps properties within the component like so:

 

<mx:Application

xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"

layout="absolute"

xmlns:fxa="com.flexapps.*">

 

<fxa:FlexApps

title="FlexApps Component"

description="Sends images to FlexApps within a Flex application."

tags="ByteArray,URLRequest,uploader,AMF3,PNG,imaging"

url="http://www.onFlex.org"

developer="Ted Patrick - Adobe Systems"/>

 

</mx:Application>

 

Once the FlexApps component is in you app, you can take a series of images of your flex application working. It makes it quick and easy to send high quality images with full meta-data attached for addition to FlexApps.

 

Imaging Tips:

 

1. FlexApps Component will take an image to the edge of the Flex SWF file depending on the size of the browser window. The width is limited to 1200px and height to 1000px to minimize the image upload size.

 

2. Make sure to change out the component properties for your application. If I see any data from the default examples, I will be forced to discard the images.

 

3. I will only approve quality images. In order to make sure that FlexApps maintains a high level of quality I will be strict about what gets approved.

 

4. Have full approval before uploading images of your Flex application. I would love to see images of Flex apps you have built but please ask permission before posting images.

 

5. Please be patient after uploading images. I plan to approve images regularly but the approval process is without feedback. Please do not expect an email when images are approved or deleted. I will do my best to be prompt.

 

I am looking forward to approving your FlexApps images!

 

Cheers,

 

Ted :)