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ActionScript, Flash, Flex in the world, Flex news, Flex resources, Magazines
Starting with September 2009 FFDMag Will Be a Free Online Magazine
Andrei Ionescu | 28.07.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

This is a good thing for us, developers. We will have the possibility to access this good resource free and easy. To quote their press release:
Since September 2009 FFD Magazine becomes online magazine. What is important – it will be also FREE of ANY charges. The only thing you need to do is to sign [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Components, Libraries, MXML
Two New Adobe Projects Go Open Source – OSMF & TLF
Andrei Ionescu | 24.07.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Adobe release other two projects into the open source world. We are speaking about: Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) and Text Layout Framework (TLF).
Open Source Media Framework was previously known as Strobe, now is a an open framework for building media players for the Flash Platform. Download it from here and for more information about [...]
ActionScript, Components, Events, Flex resources, How to, MXML
How To Create Bindable Properties (using Getters and Setters Methods) in Flex
Andrei Ionescu | 26.06.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Let’s say you created a new component and you want to add some properties that need to be bindable. Something like this:

<flexer:myComp width="400" height="200" myNewSetter="{_myData}" />
<mx:Script>
[Bindable]
private var _myData:String= "";
</mx:Script>

And when we do this

_myData = "new_val_1";

the myComp component should know that _myData has changed and should modify itself [...]
ActionScript, Flex resources, Libraries, Testing
Resources Used @ Bootcamps Are Available
Andrei Ionescu | 25.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

First of all the bootcamps were a success if we think about that all tickets were sold out before the Adobe Developer Day started. The resources used at three of bootcamps held at Adobe Developer Day are now available by the evangelists Cornel Creanga and Mihai Corlan on their blogs.
Using the following links you [...]
ActionScript, Errors, How to
getDefinitionByName Error: “Variable … is not defined.”
Andrei Ionescu | 01.05.09 | Permalink | 12 Comments

I’ve been playing with Tweensy these days. Tried to understand how it works and how to create effects using particles generator. At some point I run into an error like the following one:
ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable Box is not defined.
at global/flash.utils::getDefinitionByName()
…
What triggered it is this part of [...]
ActionScript, Libraries, Tweening
Tweensy – Tweening & Effects Library – Includes Particles Generator Engine
Andrei Ionescu | 01.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This week I’ve been searching for a tweening library. Previously I’ve been using more than one tween library like: TweenMax, TweenLight, Tweener, GTween, Adobe’s Tween, etc.
But I found about a new tweening library called Tweensy by Shane McCartney on Lost In Actionscript blog.
If you wonder what is new to this tweening library, well…

A Bitmap rendering [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML
Auto Resizable Text Area Component
Andrei Ionescu | 06.02.09 | Permalink | 28 Comments

If you need and auto resized text area then you are in problems. As far as I know there is no property to use to make a text area auto resizeable.
I really needed an auto resizable text area so I started searching and studying. I found that we can use mx_internal properties, variables and methods [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Errors, How to, Security
SecurityError: Error #3015: Loader.loadBytes() is not permitted to load content with executable code.
Andrei Ionescu | 27.01.09 | Permalink | 5 Comments

Today I managed to find this error twice. It is happening in AIR applications. I had the same application in Flex and then I ported it to AIR. The error that appeared is this:
SecurityError: Error #3015: Loader.loadBytes() is not permitted to load content with executable code.
The error is saying that you’re no more allowed to [...]
ActionScript, Flash, Flex Builder 3, How to, MXML
Very First Flex Preloader Customization For Flex Builder 3/Flex SDK 3.2
Andrei Ionescu | 22.01.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

In a previous article I explained how to create a custom preloader that will replace the very first flex preloader (the one that appears when starting application). That article was created using Flex Builder 2 and now needs an update because Flex Builder is at version 3 since a good time and Gumbo is on [...]
ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML
Importing Image With Border in a Panel
Andrei Ionescu | 12.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

This article is a follow-up of this two: How To Make an Image With Border and Continuing Image With Border. I’m writing it in order to show you that you can import Image With Border component in a Panel. Mike had some problems using the component so here it is.
To use Image With Border just [...]
ActionScript, Components, How to
Different Rows in DataGrid – Programmatically Added itemRenderers (ClassFactory and IFactory)
Andrei Ionescu | 09.01.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

DataGrid is a interesting, very useful component. Lots of things can be added to it. This time we will want to emphasize some row that will satisfy a predefined condition – in a DataGrid.
The application is very simple. Just to show you how you can achieve it. In order to do that we will have [...]
ActionScript, Flash Player
Load AS3 SWF in AS2 SWF
Andrei Ionescu | 07.01.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Last year I had to do an update to a flash website. The client needed a news widget that will read the news from o specified location using XML. I thought… I’ll create a new component containing the image, the title, the date and the text, then use a repeater to display them. Easy job [...]

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