I’ve been working on a user interface to our behavioral metrics system as an easy project to get more into AS3.\u00a0 Our system uses web services to communicate with the back-end DB, so when I opened up CS4 I went looking for the WebService class.\u00a0 Much to my surprise, I couldn’t find anything.<\/p>\n
A few searches later, it appears that the WebService class from prior Flash versions is no more.\u00a0 Very odd, kind of like the missing 3rd-party help in CS 4 (still can’t figure that one out — how could Adobe drop such a feature?).<\/p>\n
Anyway, I came across this web service class library<\/a> by Carlo Alducente, which is fabulous.\u00a0 It saved me a lot of time and it was free.\u00a0 Thank you so much, Carlo!<\/p>\n On the subject of plots and graphs, I found a great, basic set over at Yahoo, the Yahoo Flash Astra Components<\/a>.\u00a0 It has a set of bar, line, and pie charts which are easy to adapt and use.\u00a0 Then there are a bunch of other components in the set, such as for canvas layout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been working on a user interface to our behavioral metrics system as an easy project to get more into AS3.\u00a0 Our system uses web services to communicate with the back-end DB, so when I opened up CS4 I went looking for the WebService class.\u00a0 Much to my surprise, I couldn’t find anything. A few\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}