FLEXer - flex developers web cornerFLEXer - flex developers web cornerFLEXer is a tool where information regarding Flex programmers is gathered starting from general like books and resources and going to examples of actionscript for specific problems. Articles
Find Cursor Position in a HtmlText Object (RichTextEditor, TextArea, TextFi
2008-03-26 16:12:00 In the previous article I came out with a function that calculates the position of the cursor in the htmlText which is different than the position in the normal text. Rick draw my attention in his comments to some flaws which are correct: the & and other similar special chars are not counted correctly and ... More About: Action , Rich , Script , Find
Adobe Player Security Update
2008-03-25 09:16:00 Adobe plans to release a new security update for the Flash Player on 9 April 2008. The update plans to fix the issues listed in the December 2007 Security Bulletin ABSP07-20 for DNS rebinding and cross-domain policy file vulnerabilities, and Security ... More About: Action , Adobe
Find Cursor Position in a HtmlText Object (RichTextEditor, TextArea, TextFi
2008-03-18 18:39:00 Last task I finished was something linked with templates. I needed to create a simple template engine where adding a field was a necessity. I started using Rich TextEditor which is based on a TextArea so it implements htmlText property. That is an easy way having all that nice functionalities like bold, italic, font choosing, color ... More About: How To , Action , Script , Find
First Flex Camp Romania in 2008
2008-03-13 09:07:00 When: Next month, more precisely on 16th of April Where: Same place like last Flex Camp - Adobe Romania Office, Anchor Plaza, Bdul. Timisoara, nr. 26Z, Bucharest You can register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/103813509 More info here and on myadobe.ro. Hope to meet you all there! More About: 2008
First Flex Romanian User Group Meeting
2008-03-11 21:11:00 Today was the first meeting of the RoFUG (Romanian Flex User Group ). Among the attendees were: Andrei, Stelian and me from the Flexer side, Bogdan Dinu (the manager of the group - or the godfather ), Cristian Ivascu (you may know him from Adobe's Flex Camp), Costin Aldea and Iulia. Some other persons were ... More About: Meeting
Remove Duplicate Chars from a String
2008-03-11 16:37:00 This post is about how to remove duplicate characters from a string. In "short words" the following steps are taken: Split the string to an array (source array) Create a second empty array which will retain the unique values Sort the source array with case insensitive Store current value for comparison Walk through the whole source array and for each ... More About: Action , Script , String
Three Very Good Flex Resource Sites
2008-03-07 14:28:00 Today I found this three sites filled with flex resources: - DeGraFa (Declarative Graphics Framework) - ScaleNine - Flex geek DeGraFa is a framework made to do a much easier job when working with shapes, events, skinning, etc. ScaleNine is a collection of themes to use in flex applications and FlexGeek is a blog with very useful examples of how ... More About: Sites , Good , Resource
Spell Checker in Actionscript 3: Spelling Plus Library (SPL)
2008-03-06 16:18:00 Big RIAs need good interaction with the user. In big applications (like Buzzword, etc) with intensive text processing is a must to have implemented a spell checker. A very good spell checker that is built in Action script 3 is Spelling Plus Library (SPL) by gSkinner - the license is here and can be bought from here. It ... More About: Script , Actionscript
Flex 3
2008-02-25 15:29:00 A few hours ago a message went across the world and did a lot of "damage". It's subject: "Adobe AIR, Flex Builder 3, and the Flex 3 SDK are now live !" Yes you heard right:Flex 3 is now final :). In the following days I will write an article about the differences between Flex 2.1 and ... More About: Events
Browser Window Close Event and Flex Applications
2008-02-25 14:27:00 When speaking about RIA one of many nice usabilities is that to be able to give feedback to the user when it comes to critical actions like submitting important data, saving work, etc. Let's have the following example: You log in into a RIA with your user and password, you do changes to your data ... More About: Events , Event , Applications , Action , Script
Flex 360 Conference in Europe
2008-02-19 14:16:00 During 7-9 April 2008 there is a Flex meeting in Milano. Price 360 euros. More details here or here. I may be there as well :). More About: Europe , Conference
Flex and PHP web-service
2008-02-17 09:52:00 Yesterday I had to do a small flex application that resided on a server with php. Since I required a connection to mysql I wanted to use the same class I did before to connect to web-services. But PHP does not support web-services (and WSDL) by default. So after I did some search on the net ... More About: How To , Action , Service , Script , Flex
Hand Cursor on a Label
2008-02-15 10:27:00 If you have a label and you want to show a hand cursor when the mouse is over it you have to set three properties as bellow: lbl.useHand Cursor = true; lbl.mouseChildren = false; lbl.buttonMode = true; where lbl is public var lbl:Label = new Label(); Job's done! More About: Action , Script
How To Remove the ?Black Line? from a Tree Control (Drag and Drop Enabled)
2008-02-08 16:51:00 Today I found a way to remove the "black line" of a tree which has drag and drop functionality enabled. I did that by skinning. Searching through the help I've been crossing over a property named "dropIndicatorSkin" where (as its name is suggesting) the drop line is drawn. So I just re-skinned it. Here is the ... More About: How To , Action , Black , Script , Drag
Custom skin for tab bar navigator
2008-02-08 14:06:00 This it's an working example of how you can customize your tab bar navigation. So, we have a MXML file, style file and a skin script. Let's see them all.In MXML file we just link style.css file and I have used a TabNavigator component with 3 tabs. Style.css files contains to ... More About: Skin , How To , Action , Script , Custom
Very First Flex Preloader Customization
2008-02-07 11:28:00 Two days ago I needed to customize the very first preloader of a flex application (the one that is shown before finishing loading initialization classes of flex). My first impression was that it cannot be changed because I thought is something built in the Flash Player but at the end I found a way using ... More About: Events , How To , Action , Script
Older news: Adobe opens up AMF specification?
2008-02-03 17:03:00 It just hit me!! I missed one very important news for us developers from the free comunity: Adobe has opened up AMF specification and has announced plans to release the source code of Blaze DS, a messaging and remoting framework based on LiveCycle Data Services. More information can be found here. More About: News , Action , Script
Three RIA Platforms Compared
2008-02-03 16:49:00 As time passes the applications tend to move from thick software to thin web applications and they need to be platform and browser independent. This has happened because of the need of having applications that work on all platforms/browsers, have an easy way of getting the server side data, have more reach and also ... More About: Open , Platforms
FlexSpy (fxSpy) - a great tool for flex developers
2008-01-31 13:41:00 One of my friends was so kind and tell me about his tool and I think it's really good. SO, Flex -Spy allow you to inspect and dynamically change most properties and styles of the visual components in your Flex application. Check it out a live at: http://www.mieuxcoder.com/data/2007/12/Fl exSpy-1.2/dashboard.html (in the application, click the flexSpy button on the top-right ... More About: Great , Tool , Developers
Deleting Nodes Recursively from XML Structures
2008-01-29 18:05:00 One thing, among others, that Flex doesn't have, and is important because many of its components needs XML structures, is deleting (taking out) nodes from a XML structure. This is crucial for a tree or for a menu where you need to change it dynamically. So bellow is a recursive method that will go through ... More About: Action , Structures , Nodes
toString() vs xmlToString()
2008-01-29 16:20:00 I don't know if you got in trouble when working with xmls but recently I found a bug (or a feature). Some differences when using toString() and/or xmlToString(). Take a look a the following code: public var test1:XML = new XML(" <permissions></permissions 2; "); public var test2:XML = <permissions></permissions 2;; public var test3:XML = new XML(" <permissions> <test1>test</test1> </permissions>"); public var test4:XML = <permissions> ... More About: Action , Script
Two Simple Ways to Invert the Colors of an Image
2008-01-23 09:31:00 The following code inverts the colors of an image and returns the inverted image as an Image object. As parameter it needs the container of the image (a canvas). private function invertImageColor(canvas:Canvas):I mage { var newImage:Image = new Image(); newImage.source = Image( ... More About: Action , Colors , Simple
Cast to int issue
2008-01-10 23:03:00 I was working to a flex project and I just need to make a cast to a value to int ... this it's simple ... and not so. After few hour later, I have a vision ... I just try to make a cost from a decimal value to int, and I have noticed that depends ... More About: Action , Cast , Issue
RSL further details
2008-01-07 22:37:00 Table of contentsHow to make your applications smaller and reduce the loading time?How to create a swf RSL from a swc and how to use itHow to reduce the size of any flex app using RSLRSL further details As I have played with RSLs more I saw something surprising: If I compile the ... More About: Action , Details
How to reduce the size of any flex app using RSL
2008-01-07 22:28:00 Table of contentsHow to make your applications smaller and reduce the loading time?How to create a swf RSL from a swc and how to use itHow to reduce the size of any flex app using RSLRSL further details As you saw in the previous posts you can use RSLs to reduce the size ... More About: Action , Flex , Reduce , Size
How to create a swf RSL from a swc and how to use it
2008-01-07 22:11:00 Table of contentsHow to make your applications smaller and reduce the loading time?How to create a swf RSL from a swc and how to use itHow to reduce the size of any flex app using RSLRSL further details In a previous article I told you about the benefits of RSL's. But you need also ... More About: Security , Action , Bugs , Create
How to make your applications smaller and reduce the loading time?
2008-01-07 21:32:00 Table of contentsHow to make your applications smaller and reduce the loading time?How to create a swf RSL from a swc and how to use itHow to reduce the size of any flex app using RSLRSL further details If you ever wanted to make a complex application with Flex you always asked yourself: ... More About: Applications , Action , Time , Script , Reduce
variables - public/protected/private/internal/static
2008-01-07 20:46:00 One of the first questions any beginner in OOP and Flex will ask is: What do those public/protected stuff really mean? Well here is a short table to describe them. More About: Action , Public , Script , Internal , Private
Actionscript and Flash 3D Experiments - Mr. Doob
2007-12-04 10:01:00 Today I found a great site with a lot of flash and actionscript 3D experiments. Great examples. Although some of them have some error there are still a lot of 3D examples to see. This is not directly connected with Flex but inside those application are thousands of code lines written in actionscript. The best examples in ... More About: Flash , Action , Script , Actionscript , Experiments
Scroll Mask
More articles from this author:2007-11-30 08:34:00 I was working to a flex project, I need a canvas where I have to put some elements on a big surface, so I really need to have scrollbars. That's fine. If I move an object to the right-bottom corner it's working great, if the object goes out of working space, will go under scrollbars, ... More About: Action , Script , Bugs , Mask 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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