March 2008

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• ActionScript, How to

  Find Cursor Position in a HtmlText Object (RichTextEditor, TextArea, TextField) - UPDATE

  Andrei Ionescu | 26.03.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  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 […]

  Popularity: 69%

• ActionScript, Flash Player, Security

  Adobe Player Security Update

  Virgil Cristea | 25.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 35%

• ActionScript, How to, RIA

  Find Cursor Position in a HtmlText Object (RichTextEditor, TextArea, TextField)

  Andrei Ionescu | 18.03.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  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 RichTextEditor 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 […]

  Popularity: 61%

• Flex in the world, Flex news

  First Flex Camp Romania in 2008

  Andrei Ionescu | 13.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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!
  Popularity: 29%

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• Flex in the world, RoFUG

  First Flex Romanian User Group Meeting

  Virgil Cristea | 11.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 26%

• ActionScript, How to, Testing

  Remove Duplicate Chars from a String

  Andrei Ionescu | 11.03.08 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  This post is about how to remove duplicate characters from a string. And what I mean is that I want to make every char unique.
  Ex: “aabbbcccaadddee” will become “abcde“.
  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 […]

  Popularity: 54%

• Flex in the world, Flex resources, Made in Flex, RIA

  Three Very Good Flex Resource Sites

  Andrei Ionescu | 07.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today I found this three sites filled with flex resources:
  - DeGraFa (Declarative Graphics Framework)
  - ScaleNine
  - Flexgeek
  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 […]

  Popularity: 51%

• ActionScript, Flex resources, Made in Flex, RIA

  Spell Checker in Actionscript 3: Spelling Plus Library (SPL)

  Andrei Ionescu | 06.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 Actionscript 3 is Spelling Plus Library (SPL) by gSkinner - the license is here and can be bought from here.
  It […]

  Popularity: 38%

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