Actionscript PasswordUtil

Hi folks,

since so many people liked the CookieUtil, I will give away one of my other utils I have – a PasswordUtil. Many of you that are developing web applications with flex, or other actionscript 3 techniques, might have been in a situation where you needed to offer your users a solution to register up for a service. But what if you wanted to give your users the possibility to let you generate a password for them – solution is easy use PasswordUtil.

It allows you to generate random passwords in actionscript 3 of any length with just one single line of code. Just give a length and the chars that should be used. The class has predefined constants that you can use for the charset.

It comes with pre selected alphabets for the different chars you might want to use for your passwords, but you can extend it with any chars you like – change some lines and you can use it in russian or any other language.

Using it is easy:

var myPassword:String = PasswordUtil.generateRandomString( 32 , PasswordUtil.LETTERS);
trace(myPassword);

Just combine that with a button and a textinput field and voilá – there you go. The package contains a sample flex project that shows what you can do with it. It can also be used to generate a random integer of a specified length.

The scripts is public domain on a use it for whatever you like license, just like the CookieUtil.

http://depositfiles.com/files/yovo8uu4n

Actionscript Cookie Util

Hi folks,

a lot of time has gone by since my last post, I’m quite busy at the moment. But this didn’t stop me from setting up this post. I have written a small utility class which I think some of you really would like to use. It is a small class that makes it possible to set Cookies via Actionscript without adding anything to the HTML Wrapper, all the code will be injected at runtime.

I have packaged the whole thing as a ready to use flex project but feel free to use it in any other Actionscript 3 environment (Flash or pure AS3). You can grab the files here http://depositfiles.com/files/ry60vxfh8

The Util comes with methods for setting, getting and removing cookies – as mentioned before you do not have to change a single line in your wrapper, just import the class and start setting cookies from flash or flex. I have made this util because of some concerns using Flash Cookies (Shared Objects) with Internet Explorer 6 – now i do not use Shared Objects anymore if I do not really need them. I really do not know why this doesn’t come with any of the Adobe utils.

To use the util, download the file and put the de/aggro/utils/CookieUtil into your source folder, then try the following:

import de.aggro.utils.CookieUtil;
//Set a cookie named mycookie with a value of mycookie value with a time to live of 30 days
CookieUtil.setCookie("mycookie", "mycookie value", 30);
//Get that cookie and trace its value
trace(CookieUtil.getCookie("mycookie"));
//Delete the cookie from the users computer
CookieUtil.deleteCookie("mycookie");

Feel free to use the util for any commercial, private or educational purposes and drop me a comment if you like it.

CollapsableTitleWindow is online again

Since so many people requested it, the sources are online again. No online demo yet but you can grab the files and check it out on your local System. See the post here.

Another Update to CollapsableTitleWindow

I have fixed the bug issued that it would close all other windows if closed (as I said, they were only invisible) and added CustomEvents and 2 properties most of you will like – startMaximized and startCollapsed. You can guess what the will do =) The events are resize, collapse, expand, maximize and minimize (opposite of maximize). They are all encapsulated in CollapsableTitleWindowEvent.

Source is the same as in the previous entry here

[Update] Resizable Collapsable TitleWindow (RE-UPLOADED!)

I have come around the Post regarding SuperPanel and was kind of upset it wasn’t that what I have been searching for. Also the perfomance is a little sucky (never mind ) So I thought I have to do it better – this is what I made out of it

Check the demo here (Currently down, get the files here)

You can add new Windows by Pressing the button, it will react exactly as you would expect it from a windows window. Double clicking the header will expand/shrink the window. If you collapse it it will set down to the bottom of it’s container. Please let me know what you think of it and I will release the source code. As you might guessed you can also resize the window by dragging the right lower corner. Al l graphics are drawn via code but this can be easily changed. There are Methods to let it come up expanded or shrinked, an initial size and position and much more. I’ll post the sources this weekend, if there is need for it.

[Update]

The source view is available now, I don’t know why but it doesn’t work using the contextual menu – but who cares use this link:

Download and View it HERE

See the documentation HERE

Temporary only downloadable (no demo online), my webspace is down at the moment – but get it here at Depositfiles

Here are some more examples on those implementations, none of them met my requirements:

http://manish.revise.org/archives/2005/01/09/resizable-titlewindow-in-flex/

http://dev.jessewarden.com/flex/collapsablepanel/

http://www.coenraets.com/

(All down :-O )

And the best one I found, but with to much overhead:

http://www.flexdaddy.info/2005/03/06/resizable-and-collapsable-titlewindow-flex-15/

License

This component is licensed under the MIT license.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Mouse Capture

I wrote a simple Mouse Capture component for Flex 2.0.1 – this will save the mouse position every N seconds and on every click. After capturing it is able to draw the path the mouse has gone as well as any clicks. This is very simple and will be a lot of more a tutorial on how to use timers an events. Be sure to check it out if you are new to Flex but also if you like the idea

Features

• Set time interval for storage
• Capture clicks only
• Only import the class and use it
• Comes with full flex builder project and all sources

Downloads

You can get the file here.

Example Usage

Download the package and put it in one of your Source Folders – then import the class via: import de.aggro.display.MouseCapture

Just press start, click a few times into the White Canvas, then press stop and after that show to test the drawing method.

Example

Coming soon…

License

This component is licensed under the MIT license.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Welcome on myFlex

Hi Folks,

Since blogging is cool and the hottest you can do as a developer I’m starting out this Blog for all my Flex regarding stuff. Since I’m German please excuse weird grammar from time to time.

So let’s start out, yesterday Marc Hughes released his new version of the Object Handles Component for Flex – I did most of the code for the rotational support so go and get it. Primary Changes are:

Changes include:

- Initial rotation support added (still needs some tweaks) – my part .
- Metadata for events added. (Thanks Thomas Jakobi!)
- Bug fix for making ObjectHandles dynamically through actionscript
instead of in an MXML document.
- Ability to turn mouse cursor support off (since they are ugly right
now).

See the full blog post here and the components main page here with a demo to try it. There’s also a google code project if you want to particiate something. Marc has a lot of nice components and several other things so go and check it out.