Hints and Tips: Screen Grabs
Hold down both the sound increase and decrease buttons at the same time to take a screenshot of the application.
Native Extensions 101
I have just release a blog post about creating a NativeAlert extension for AIR. It includes multiple buttons and dispatches ActionScript events when the user selects one of those buttons.
the post can be found here.
http://www.liquid-photo.com/2011/10/28/native-extension-for-adobe-air-and-ios-101/
The source is on github and you can download the NativeAlert.ane file directly also
Recovering large corrupted zip files
Just a quick reminder of how to recover corrupted zip files.
ditto -x -k [source.zip] [destination_folder]
Liquid-Photo Post::Optimising Item Renderers for a Mobile TileLayout
New post over at liquid-photo
Liquid-Photo Post: MobileTextFieldFactory simplifies creating StylableTextField
New post over at liquid-photo
Liquid-Photo Version 3.1.33 Submitted to AppWorld
We have just submitted version 3.1.33 to the Blackberry AppWorld. This release addresses several issues that some of our users were experiencing and includes the following.
*Fixed Bugs
** Image scanning now performed in the background so that users with large numbers of photos can still use the application without having to wait for all images to be found.
** Increased small button hit areas to make them easier to select.
Please update if you have been having any issues.
Kind Regards
The Liquid-photo team.
Liquid-Photo Version 3.1.32 Submitted to AppWorld
We have just submitted version 3.1.32 to the Blackberry AppWorld. This release addresses several issues that some of our users were experiencing and includes the following.
*Fixed Bugs
** Invalid images caused the application to crash this has now been fixed and the liquid-photo will now continue to load as well as alert the user about which images are corrupt.
Please update if you have been having any issues.
Kind Regards
The Liquid-photo team.
Liquid-Photo approved for Blackberry Playbook
I am proud to announce that Liquid-photo has been approved for the Blackberry App store. Below are the details of release 1.0.
and the official site can be found over at http://www.liquid-photo.com
Turn your BlackBerry® PlayBook™ into a liquid photo slide show while it charges!.
Touch the screen anywhere and watch as a water ripple spreads across your gallery images.
Take photo's from within the application and manipulate them immediately.
Complete Photo Browser included so you can view all the images on your BlackBerry® PlayBook™. Including Images download from the built in web browser.
Tweek and change the Rain Effect's settings to get a custom effect that suit's you, be it a heavy down pour or a light shower.
Features
* Touch sensitive water ripples
* Screensaver while your Playbook™ Charges
* Automatically exits the application if your batter falls below 10% if it is not Charging
* Rain Effect - Create an amazing rain effect over top of your image slide show
* In-App Camera control so you can quickly add water effects to your photo's
* Choose individual Photo's or whole Albums to add to your slideshow
* Live Effect/Slide show configuration through the built in settings screen
* Ideal ScreenSaver whilst your Playbook™ charges
* Slide Show
Coming soon...
* Link the application to your Flickr account.
* More Water effects like, ripples and splashes.
* Color Effects.
* Random SlideShow Options.
* Random Effects Options.



