Robotlegs is a light-weight, pure AS3 micro-architecture that has developed some intense devotion amongst the Flash community recently. Created by Shaun Smith, it provides a mechanism for wiring your objects together in a decoupled way, and through the use of automated metadata based dependency injection, Robotlegs removes boilerplate code in an application.

If you’re familiar with PureMVC, you’ll find lots of similarities in Robotlegs and then some – cool features such as Dependency Injection. In this tutorial, I shall demonstrate how to build a typical Flash site with Robotlegs, similar to the one in my PureMVC Flash Site tutorial. The application begins by loading an xml document, parsing that data, and finally displaying a Flash site based on the dynamic data.

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In this final installment of my series of tutorials on using Ant with Flex Builder, I’ll show you how to create a Preloader asset in the Flash IDE and export that as a SWC to be used in your Actionscript source code.

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This is a little blurb to announce that I will be attending the 360|iDev conference in Denver, CO, Sept. 27 – 30. Since I’ve been spending my recent weekends digging into the iPhone SDK, I’m hungry and looking forward to learning more about the whole business of iPhone development.

On top of that, it will be my first trip to the fine city of Denver. Feel free to drop me a note if you’re attending too and would like to say “hi”.

Part 4b of the Ant series expands on Part 4a by adding a Flash UI Component to the SWC. Please review Part 4a before proceeding with this tutorial.

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First off, if you’ve been waiting for this installment of my series of tutorials on Ant, I offer my sincere apologies. I’ve been sidetracked by iPhone development and haven’t been able to find time to finish off these tutorials. As promised, here’s a follow up to my previous tutorials.

In Part 4a, I shall show you how to compile a Flash library symbol as a SWC, add this SWC to your Actionscript classpath and compile your application with the Flex MXMLC compiler.

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