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• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• ActionScript, Events, Javascript, MXML, RIA

  Browser Window Close Event and Flex Applications

  Andrei Ionescu | 25.02.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  When speaking about RIA one of many nice usabilities is that to be able to give feedback to the user when it comes to critical actions like submitting important data, saving work, etc. Let’s have the following example: You log in into a RIA with your user and password, you do changes to your data [...]

• ActionScript, Flex 2, Flex resources, How to, PHP, RIA, Web Service

  Flex and PHP web-service

  Virgil Cristea | 17.02.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Yesterday I had to do a small flex application that resided on a server with php. Since I required a connection to mysql I wanted to use the same class I did before to connect to web-services. But PHP does not support web-services (and WSDL) by default.
  So after I did some search on the net [...]

• ActionScript, How to

  Hand Cursor on a Label

  Andrei Ionescu | 15.02.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  If you have a label and you want to show a hand cursor when the mouse is over it you have to set three properties as bellow:

  lbl.useHandCursor = true;
  lbl.mouseChildren = false;
  lbl.buttonMode = true;

  where lbl is

  public var lbl:Label = new Label();

  Job’s done!

• ActionScript, Flex 2, How to, Skin, css

  How To Remove the “Black Line” from a Tree Control (Drag and Drop Enabled)

  Andrei Ionescu | 08.02.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Today I found a way to remove the “black line” of a tree which has drag and drop functionality enabled. I did that by skinning. Searching through the help I’ve been crossing over a property named “dropIndicatorSkin” where (as its name is suggesting) the drop line is drawn. So I just re-skinned it.
  Here is the [...]

• ActionScript, Flex 2, How to, MXML, Skin, css

  Custom skin for tab bar navigator

  Stelian Crisan | 08.02.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  This it’s an working example of how you can customize your tab bar navigation.
  

  
  So, we have a MXML file, style file and a skin script. Let’s see them all.In MXML file we just link style.css file and I have used a TabNavigator component with 3 tabs. Style.css files contains to css [...]

• ActionScript, Flash, Flex 2, How to, MXML

  Very First Flex Preloader Customization

  Andrei Ionescu | 07.02.08 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  Two days ago I needed to customize the very first preloader of a flex application (the one that is shown before finishing loading initialization classes of flex). My first impression was that it cannot be changed because I thought is something built in the Flash Player but at the end I found a way using [...]

• ActionScript, Flex 2, Flex IDE, Flex news, RIA

  Older news: Adobe opens up AMF specification…

  Virgil Cristea | 03.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  It just hit me!! I missed one very important news for us developers from the free comunity:
  Adobe has opened up AMF specification and has announced plans to release the source code of BlazeDS, a messaging and remoting framework based on LiveCycle Data Services.
  More information can be found here.

• ActionScript, xml

  Deleting Nodes Recursively from XML Structures

  Andrei Ionescu | 29.01.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  One thing, among others, that Flex doesn’t have, and is important because many of its components needs XML structures, is deleting (taking out) nodes from a XML structure. This is crucial for a tree or for a menu where you need to change it dynamically. So bellow is a recursive method that will go through [...]

• ActionScript, Bugs

  toString() vs xmlToString()

  Andrei Ionescu | 29.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I don’t know if you got in trouble when working with xmls but recently I found a bug (or a feature). Some differences when using toString() and/or xmlToString().
  Take a look a the following code:

  public var test1:XML = new XML("
  <permissions></permissions>
  ");
  public var test2:XML =
  <permissions></permissions>;
   
  public var test3:XML = new XML("
  <permissions>
  <test1>test</test1>
  </permissions>");
  public var test4:XML =
  <permissions>
  [...]

• ActionScript

  Two Simple Ways to Invert the Colors of an Image

  Andrei Ionescu | 23.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The following code inverts the colors of an image and returns the inverted image as an Image object. As parameter it needs the container of the image (a canvas).

  private function invertImageColor(canvas:Canvas):Image
  {
  var newImage:Image = new Image();
  newImage.source = Image(
  [...]

• ActionScript

  Cast to int issue

  Stelian Crisan | 11.01.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I was working to a flex project and I just need to make a cast to a value to int … this it’s simple … and not so.
  After few hour later, I have a vision …
  I just try to make a cost from a decimal value to int, and I have noticed that depends [...]

• ActionScript, Flex 2, Flex resources

  How to make your applications smaller and reduce the loading time?

  Virgil Cristea | 07.01.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  If you ever wanted to make a complex application with Flex you always asked yourself: Is the swf to big? How can I reduce it’s size?
  Here are some small tips that do not relate to flex only, and one specific to flex:

• ActionScript, Flex 2, Flex resources

  variables - public/protected/private/internal/static

  Virgil Cristea | 07.01.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  One of the first questions any beginner in OOP and Flex will ask is: What do those public/protected stuff really mean?
  Well here is a short table to describe them.

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