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ActionScript, Components, How to, Media
Chromeless Youtube Video Player for Flex
Stelian Crisan | 24.12.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

This Flex component allow you to play Youtube movies into you Flex applications and also to be able to customize the look of your player. Actually I put a main movie component and two control sections, one for: play, stop, mute, unmute and time figures (current second and total number of seconds of the movie); [...]
Components, Flex resources
Flex/Flash Pivot Table and Charts component
Stelian Crisan | 10.11.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I was recently presented a component that I find interesting and useful at the same time, this is Flex/Flash Pivot Table and Charts component.
The Flexmonster team made a nice multidimensional data visualization, reporting and analysis tool for any BI solution. A few of most important features are:

Display large amounts of information the friendly way
Pivot [...]
Adobe, Components, Flash
Adobe Launched Squiggly Spell Checker Component
Andrei Ionescu | 04.10.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

Recently Adobe launched a new component: Squiggly. What is Squiggly? As they are saying…
Squiggly is a spell checking engine for Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR®. The Squiggly library allows you to easily add spell checking functionality in any Flex 3 based text control.
Worth mentioning that the distribution package consists of a utility for building [...]
Components
Multiple selection list component
Stelian Crisan | 20.09.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

This component was created in order to improve user experience when the user must select multiple options from a long list of items. As you already know, if you select more items from a list component you have to scroll in order to see what it’s you actual selection.
So, what you do if you [...]
AMF, ActionScript, Components, Flash Builder 4, Flex 4 SDK, How to, MXML, PHP
Multiple File Upload Using AMFPHP
Andrei Ionescu | 02.09.09 | Permalink | 20 Comments

What is AMF and a bit of history
Action Message Format (AMF) is a compact binary format that is used to serialize ActionScript object graphs. Once serialized an AMF encoded object graph may be used to persist and retrieve the public state of an application across sessions or allow two endpoints to communicate through the exchange [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, Components, Flex Builder 3, How to, MXML, RIA
How To Add a Custom Marker On Yahoo! Maps
Andrei Ionescu | 14.08.08 | Permalink | 11 Comments

In the previous article I explained how to use Yahoo! Maps. Now I’ll explain how to create a custom marker and how to place it on the map. This is not an easy task because on Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) there is not enough documentation regarding Yahoo! Maps API for AS3. Take a look at [...]
ActionScript, Components, Events, MXML, Skin
MatrixGrid Component – Extending The DataGrid
Andrei Ionescu | 30.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

MatrixGrid is a complex component I made that displays a bi-dimensional array and gives the possibility to change its values using combo boxes. These are the changes you can do:

change one single item

change one row at once
change one column at once

The MatrixGrid component receives for objects:

array with the possible values in each combo box
the [...]

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