April 2008

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• Flex Builder 3, Flex resources, How to

  How To Install Subclipse on Flex Builder 3

  Andrei Ionescu | 30.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  For big projects that involves more people a version control software is a must. There are many but from the two most used, which are CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and SVN (Subversion), I’ll explain how to install Subclipse on Flex Builder 3 - Subclipse is a plug-in providing support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE [...]

• ActionScript, Events, How to, Skin

  Resizable Canvas - …and Vertically

  Andrei Ionescu | 29.04.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  In the previous article I explained how to create a horizontally resizable canvas. In this second part we will implement also the vertical resize functionality.
  Taking into account that we have the previous article to implement this new functionality will not be a hassle. All we have to do is to duplicate some UIs, methods, events [...]

• ActionScript, Events, How to, Skin

  Resizable Canvas - Horizontally

  Andrei Ionescu | 25.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• ActionScript, Air, Flex 2

  Converting a flex 2 app to air

  Virgil Cristea | 23.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• ActionScript, How to, Testing

  Comparison: Remove Duplicate Chars from a String Via Array and RegExp

  Andrei Ionescu | 23.04.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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. [...]

• 3D, Flex resources

  Alternativa 3D - two new examples

  Andrei Ionescu | 18.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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.

• ActionScript, Bugs, Flash, Flex in the world, Flex news, Security

  Flash NULL pointer exploit

  Virgil Cristea | 18.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The paper “Application-Specific Attacks: Leveraging the ActionScript 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 [...]

• Flex in the world, Flex news, RIA, RoFUG

  We’ve been at FlexCamp Bucharest Romania 2008

  Andrei Ionescu | 17.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 [...]

• ActionScript, Events, How to, MXML

  Mouse Click and Space Key Press on a Button

  Andrei Ionescu | 17.04.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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 [...]

• Flexer

  Fx{r} Wallpapers

  Andrei Ionescu | 16.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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!

• Flex in the world

  External Flex Project

  Virgil Cristea | 15.04.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  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)
   - [...]

• ActionScript, How to

  nl2br - New Line To BR

  Andrei Ionescu | 09.04.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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 [...]

• ActionScript, How to

  Strip Html Tags - with allowable tags

  Andrei Ionescu | 08.04.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  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 [...]

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