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• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML, css

  ImageRail - Adding Click Event, Styles And HandCursor

  05.06.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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 […]

  Popularity: 85%

• ActionScript, MXML

  Sorting in DataGrid Using an Arbitrary/External Column

  03.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 56%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML

  How To Add an Event To a Custom MXML Component using Event Meta Tag

  30.05.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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 […]

  Popularity: 62%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML

  Image Gallery Component - ImageRail

  29.05.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  In this article I’ll present a new component I built: ImageRail. 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 […]

  Popularity: 93%

• ActionScript, Events, How to, Skin

  Resizable Canvas - …both directions

  19.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 67%

• ActionScript, Books, Flex resources, RIA

  Contributing to Flex 3 Cookbook

  13.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 50%

• ActionScript, Events, How to, MXML, PHP, Web Service, xml

  How To Build a Download Application in Flex

  12.05.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  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 […]

  Popularity: 97%

• ActionScript, How to, MXML, PHP, Security, Web Service

  Using Shared Objects: Login Process with Remember Password

  09.05.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  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 […]

  Popularity: 78%

• ActionScript, Flash, Flash Player, Flex 2, Flex Builder 3, Flex resources, css

  HTML Tags And Attributes Supported by Flash Player

  08.05.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  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 […]

  Popularity: 100%

• ActionScript, Air, How to, Uncategorized

  AIR applications File and Directory

  08.05.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  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 […]

  Popularity: 55%

• ActionScript, How to, MXML

  ComboBox With Tooltip

  07.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 53%

• ActionScript, How to, Testing

  AS3 Memory Monitoring/Usage

  06.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  You can monitor your memory usage/leaking with System.totalMemory property. This way you can see how memory is used, where leaks are and you can optimize those parts that are eating too much memory.
  In simple words use System.totalMemory as bellow (in KB):

  var memoryUsedInKb:Number= Number(System.totalMemory/1024).toFixed(2);

  I used it to show the used memory in different units: bytes, Kilobytes, […]

  Popularity: 43%

• ActionScript, Events, How to, Skin

  Resizable Canvas - …and Vertically

  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 […]

  Popularity: 64%

• ActionScript, Events, How to, Skin

  Resizable Canvas - Horizontally

  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 […]

  Popularity: 56%

• ActionScript, Air, Flex 2

  Converting a flex 2 app to air

  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 […]

  Popularity: 38%

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