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
How To Set Focus on UIComponent
2008-06-06 15:54:00 That is a verry small isue, but some times we really need a fast answer. I try to use setFocus method for diffrent UIComponents, for most of them it’s ok, but for a button for example you can’t see focus border using only setFocus method, so the solutions is to use also drawFocus method. drawFocus method is ... More About: How To , Action , Script
ImageRail - Adding Click Event, Styles And HandCursor
2008-06-05 15:57:00 Some time ago, in a previous article I presented you ImageRail component that displays some thumbnails with possibility to scroll to left or right. Now we will add some new features that were missing. Click Event - imageClick Styles - imageBackgroundAlpha HandCursor Click event will be triggered when there is a click on an image, more precisely, on the ... More About: How To , Action , Script
Sorting in DataGrid Using an Arbitrary/External Column
2008-06-03 17:05:00 What I mean in the title is this: having a data grid with a column containing some priorities (like: urgent, normal, high) among other columns, you want to sort by this priority column, but you notice that is not sorted by its importance but alphabetically. To make it crystal clear follow the example bellow… Having the ... More About: Action , Script , Column , Sorting , External
Flex Builder cannot locate the required version of Flash Player Error: Fire
2008-06-02 11:36:00 Today I upgraded my flash player to version 9.0.124 and I'm referring to the debug version of it. The upgrade went OK on IE, I downloaded the version for IE from Adobe's download page (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flash player/updaters/9/flashplayer_9_ax_debug. exe), I installed it and everything worked out. I was thinking: "Great! That was easy! Let's do it for Fire fox also...". I ... More About: Flash , Flash Player , Player , Flex
0 Day Expoit in Flash Player.. Not so real
2008-05-31 16:48:00 In a previous article in this series I told you about a reported exploit for Adobe Flash Player . It seems that the security bulletin that this exploit was based upon was released before the version 9.0.124.0 of the Player. Reading the latest security bulletin Adobe informs us that the exploit is not applicable to this ... More About: Flash Player , Real
How To Add an Event To a Custom MXML Component using Event Meta Tag
2008-05-30 14:11:00 Using events is fun in MXML components is fun and easily you can specify events using Event meta tag inside the component like this: <mx:Metadata> [Event(name="myevent", type="com.MyEvent")] </mx:Metadata> The following lines defines the myevent attribute of the component like this: <com:FramedImage x="10" y="10" myevent="handleMyEvent(event)" ... /> FramedImage component is a custom component which displays a framed image. For ... More About: How To , Action , Script , Components
Image Gallery Component - ImageRail
2008-05-29 11:00:00 In this article I'll present a new component I built: Image Rail. This MXML component will display a series of thumbnails having the possibility to scroll them horizontally. Parameters: paths: an array containing URLs to images images: an array containing image objects imagesToShow: an unsigned integer that specifies the number of images displayed at a time - deafult is ... More About: How To , Action , Gallery , Script
Adobe Flash zero-day exploit in the wild
2008-05-28 10:31:00 A very recent news on Zdnet announced that there is an very serious exploit that Adobe Flash Players 9.0.115.0 and 9.0.124.0 are vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. The link to the whole story is here. More About: Flash Player , Exploit , Wild
How To Build Flash Player 10 Applications using Flex SDK
2008-05-21 18:14:00 As we promised we are back with a tutorial on how to build Flex applications for Astro flash player. This will be a step by step tutorial which is intended to help you install the last Flex SDK from daily builds. So let's start... 1) Get the Flex SDK Daily build. 2) Create a new folder: "3.0.1.1739". 3) ... More About: Applications , Flash , Flash Player , Player
How To Install Flash Player 10 (Astro) And Still Debug
2008-05-20 18:06:00 Today I installed Astro ! What I did to be able to still develop and debug flash player 9 applications? I installed the Flash Player 10 just for Firefox and for debug I'm using IE. You can inverse it and install the ActiveX for IE and keep Firefox with the flash player 9. The links to ... More About: Flash Player , Debug
Resizable Canvas - ?both directions
2008-05-19 16:01:00 In the previous articles in this series I explained how to create a horizontally and vertically resizable canvas. In this third article we will add the possibility to resize in both direction by dragging the right bottom corner. What we will do: add the new UI control (the right bottom button) create the necessary events for it create CSS ... More About: Events , How To , Action , Script , Directions
Flash Player 10 (codename ASTRO) prerelease ready for download
2008-05-16 12:36:00 Adobe Flash Player 10 (codename "Astro ") can be downloaded from Adobe site following this link: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashp layer10/ New features: Hardware acceleration - flash player will use the GPU for some visual processing tasks Advanced Text Layout - a new engine for text layout (as you may know the old TextField has big problems when rendering text, htmlText and images) ... More About: Flash Player , Download
Contributing to Flex 3 Cookbook
2008-05-13 14:21:00 Although is just one receipt I'm glad that my post was selected to be part of Flex 3 Cookbook . The original post can be found on Flex Cookbook Beta site by the name "Using More Themes in the same Application". The book release is in May but till now (13th of May 2008) it is still ... More About: Books , Action , Script
How To Build a Download Application in Flex
2008-05-12 14:41:00 In this article I'll show the same application I presented at FlexCamp Bucharest Romania 2008 - the video from the conference is available here and although it is in Romanian it might be useful. In the presentation I'm showing the power of Flex: doing complex applications with a few lines of codding. With this article ... More About: Events , How To , Action , Download , Service
Override classes from included libraries
2008-05-11 09:59:00 During last week I had to do a small application for AIR. That was until friday when I had to release it and found out that the app had to work also in normal browser. Since almost all the code was independent of the type of app (AIR/Flex) my task was pretty easy: Get all existing ... More About: How To , Classes , Libraries
Using Shared Objects: Login Process with Remember Password
2008-05-09 16:38:00 In this post we will implement a login process with remember password functionality. In AS3 and also in AS2 we can use a SharedObject to store data on the users browser. Shared objects are similar to the all known browser cookies but are managed by the flash player. Shared objects can store data also remotely ... More About: Security , How To , Action , Script , Password
HTML Tags And Attributes Supported by Flash Player
2008-05-08 16:23:00 Bellow you can find a list tags and their attributes that are supported by flash player (and also by flex framework). This list applies to TextArea, TextFields and other controls that are html enabled. Anchor tag (<a>) Creates a hypertext link. href target Bold tag (<b>) Renders text as bold. Break tag (<br>) Creates a line break in the text field. Font tag (<font>) Specifies ... More About: Flash , Action , Rich , Flash Player , Player
AIR applications File and Directory
2008-05-08 09:12:00 In the past days I had to write a small app in AIR and one of the problems I came across was the saving of preferences locally. I needed to be able to read/write a file on the local file system. After some digging I found the answer and decided to make a small tutorial ... More About: Applications , How To , Action , File , Script
ComboBox With Tooltip
2008-05-07 15:15:00 If you use Combo boxes to display options in some cases you may want to display options that are containing more than a few words. Maybe you want to know how a user arrived on your flex application and you want him to select from some complex options, but in the same time you don't ... More About: How To , Action , Script
Resizable Canvas - Horizontaly
2008-04-25 19:00:00 Yesterday I started to implement a new control: Resizable Canvas . A very interesting task which needed some thinking because there are more than one ways to achieve this. My implementation is based on a canvas that includes a reskined button as the right edge of the canvas for dragging. The canvas will be resized when the ... More About: Events , How To , Action , Script
Converting a flex 2 app to air
2008-04-23 14:35:00 Last week I tried to convert a small flex 2 application to air. It went pretty smooth with some minor exceptions that were fixed fast. So if you have a flex 2 app and did not do anything fancy in it then it all should work fine. Keep in mind that flex 3 has some modifications ... More About: Action , Script , Flex
Comparison: Remove Duplicate Chars from a String Via Array and RegExp
2008-04-23 13:59:00 In the previous article, Remove Duplicate Chars from a String , I posted a way to remove duplicates characters from a string and make it of unique chars. So to make myself clear I'll give the following example: Source string: "aabbccaaddee" Should be: "abcde" (note the underlined characters). In my previous article TLP has commented and created a better method. ... More About: How To , Action , Script , Comparison
Alternativa 3D - two new examples
2008-04-18 18:19:00 In a previous article we presented a new 3D engine framework. Now this engine evolved and now is moving better/faster. On the site of this engine are two new examples and you can see that this engine is the future of online gaming. Enjoy the examples and great job done by the guys at Alternativa. More About: Examples
Flash NULL pointer exploit
2008-04-18 11:52:00 The paper "Application-Specific Attacks: Leveraging the Action Script Virtual Machine" written by Mark Dowd in which he describes various techniques that promise to open up a class of exploits and vulnerability research previously thought to be prohibitively difficult. While the Flash vulnerability described in the paper[PDF] has been patched by Adobe, the presentation of a reliable ... More About: Exploit , Bugs
We?ve been at FlexCamp Bucharest Romania 2008
2008-04-17 19:50:00 As we promised, we have been present to FlexCamp Bucharest Romania 2008 and there were about 90 people, more than half of them for the first time at FlexCamp. It was a great time and we discussed about new technologies like Adobe LiveCycle Data Services, BlazeDS, new flex frameworks like PureMVC and Caringorm, and the ...
Mouse Click and Space Key Press on a Button
2008-04-17 19:31:00 Flex is a very powerful instrument but needs to be learned and studied. Some time ago I got into a bug - that is what I thought at the first impression - but is not. I talking about the MouseEvent.CLICK event which is triggered also by the KeyboardEvent.SPACE. Please try the following example and you'll understand ... More About: Events , Space , How To , Action , Press
Fx{r} Wallpapers
2008-04-16 12:20:00 If you like Fx{r} now you can download new wallpapers. Click here to see the gallery. We hope to release new wallpapers on new ideas soon. Enjoy! More About: Wallpapers
External Flex Project
2008-04-15 13:10:00 Itzik Kubi, is looking for a flex developer that would help him to build/improve his test environment. This is a relative short project(about 100 hours) that is suitable for a shoreoff student/freelancer. Here are some of the requirements: - An experienced Flex developer - Experience with Flex Builder/Eclipse - Experience with LCDS/BlazeDS and the different services (Remoting, Messaging, Data Management) - ... More About: Project , External
nl2br - New Line To BR
2008-04-09 15:10:00 Programmers with PHP background may miss some great functions that would make programmers life much easier (nl2br in PHP). Working with HTML in Flex is a big task and as you found in the previous article more functions are needed to process HTML strings. In this article a simple function will transform any new line to ... More About: How To , Action , Script , Line
Strip Html Tags - with allowable tags
More articles from this author:2008-04-08 13:05:00 Lately I've been working with Rich Text Editor so I found that I need more than what RTE offers. Recently I needed a function to strip HTML tags. If you have a PHP background you can remember the strip_tags function from PHP4 and PHP5 where you could strip all HTML tags but the ones you ... More About: How To , Action , Script , Tags , Html 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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