Recently I stumbled upon a curious issue. Can’t tell whether it is a bug or a feature. For sure it is something unexpected to me. I stripped it down to a minimal example. Create an empty Adobe Air application and link a css stylesheet. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:WindowedApplication …
Posty 1.7 Released
Posted by CesareA new release of Posty is out today. On time to be put under the Christmas tree. Here is the change log. Enjoy! nine new graphical themes to customize the look and feel new Panel layout to quicken the choice between tabs a new tab, Friends, to read in one shot the updates from your …
Url shortening services are getting popular, especially now that microblogging networks are extensively used. Since the length of a microblogging post is usually limited, a shortened url comes handy for it saves precious characters. A shortened url is a sort of “compressed” url. For example if you point your browser to: http://is.gd/2 you will be …
Posty 1.6 is out
Posted by CesareA new version of Posty has been released today. This is the best release of Posty ever with a lot of new features! Automatic updates. Upon confirmation Posty downloads and installs new versions. Improved usability of login forms (which show up when needed) Clickable in-text links Url shortening (via http://is.gd/) Support to Twitter Direct Messages …
As you know the Adobe Air framework enables the addition of a drop shadow to applications. I happened to get into this issue when I was trying to add a dropShadow to Posty. The WindowedApplication Flex tag includes two intuitively named tags: dropShadowEnabled, which is boolean, and dropShadowColor which expects an hexadecimal color. So it …
