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April 2009

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AIR, ActionScript, Components, Flex in the world, Flex resources, Magazines
Contributing to FFDMag
Andrei Ionescu | 27.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve been working on an article for Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. The article’s name is How to use Yahoo! Maps in Flex and show how you can use Yahoo! Maps on your RIA. The article is based on two articles from our blog which had been combined and developed further.
The articles are:

How To Add [...]
Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex in the world, Flex news, Flex resources
Adobe Flex Builder 3 Professional for Unemployed Developers
Andrei Ionescu | 23.04.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

In the previous months some of Adobe evangelists handed out licensees of Flex Builder for people without job in order to help them get a job by reconverting them. Ben Forta said on his blog:
We did not launch a full program for this, just a grassroots initiative thought up and delivered by your friendly Adobe [...]
ActionScript, Components, Events, How to, MXML
How To Change The Default Behavior of DisclosureIcon of a Tree Component
Andrei Ionescu | 21.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This weekend I’ve been programming a new tree component that is intended to be used as a hierarchical menu. One thing that I have to do was to change the default behavior of the disclosureIcon. If you wonder what is the disclosureIcon, it is the grey arrow that shows if there is a node or [...]
Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flex in the world, Flex news
No Adobe MAX Europe in 2009
Andrei Ionescu | 15.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

As many of you know Adobe MAX is the biggest event organized by Adobe. Until this year Adobe MAX had two locations in two different time intervals: one in North America and one in Europe. It is hard to say that this year Adobe MAX Europe won’t take place which is a sad thing.
Adobe MAX [...]
Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flex in the world, Flex news
New Flex Event
Andrei Ionescu | 14.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Although it sounds like Adobe added new events in the Flex SDK the article is about a new Flex/Flash/Actionscript meeting. We had great FlexCamps in Romania (the last one in Timisoara) but this time we have a big Abode event. It is about Flex/Flash/AIR/Web technologies/RIA/ColdFusion and more. People from Adobe Romania says that it will [...]
ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML
How To Modify TitleWindow’s Close Button Position
Andrei Ionescu | 10.04.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

Last week we received an email from someone having problems changing the position of the close button of a TitleWindow or Panel component. After a short brainstorming we found a solution and created a new component.
If you wonder how we did it the answer is simple: we extended the TitleWindow component and got into [...]

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