February 2008

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• Events, Flex news, RIA

  Flex 3

  25.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 28%

• ActionScript, Events, Javascript, MXML, RIA

  Browser Window Close Event and Flex Applications

  25.02.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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 […]

  Popularity: 87%

• Flex 2, Flex in the world, Flex news

  Flex 360 Conference in Europe

  19.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 :).
  Popularity: 28%

  Popularity: 28%

• ActionScript, Flex 2, Flex resources, How to, PHP, RIA, Web Service

  Flex and PHP web-service

  17.02.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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 […]

  Popularity: 74%

• ActionScript, How to

  Hand Cursor on a Label

  15.02.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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.useHandCursor = true;
  lbl.mouseChildren = false;
  lbl.buttonMode = true;

  where lbl is

  public var lbl:Label = new Label();

  Job’s done!
  Popularity: 27%

  Popularity: 27%

• ActionScript, Flex 2, How to, Skin, css

  How To Remove the “Black Line” from a Tree Control (Drag and Drop Enabled)

  08.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 42%

• ActionScript, Flex 2, How to, MXML

  Custom skin for tab bar navigator

  08.02.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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 css […]

  Popularity: 63%

• ActionScript, Flash, Flex 2, How to, MXML

  Very First Flex Preloader Customization

  07.02.08 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  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 […]

  Popularity: 92%

• ActionScript, Flex 2, Flex IDE, Flex news, RIA

  Older news: Adobe opens up AMF specification…

  03.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 BlazeDS, a messaging and remoting framework based on LiveCycle Data Services.
  More information can be found here.
  Popularity: 41%

  Popularity: 41%

• RIA

  Three RIA Platforms Compared

  03.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

     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 […]

  Popularity: 20%

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