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• ActionScript, Events, How to, MXML

  How To Find On Which Divider of a HDividerBox a Double Click Event Occured

  08.10.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This was a tricky issue… but solvable. I needed to found a way to collapse the left panel of a HDividedBox. This can be easily done by using moveDividerTo() method or setting getDividerAt().x (for vertical getDividerAt().y) property to the desired value. The problem is this: if you want to collapse the left at double click […]

  Popularity: 4%

• ActionScript, Debug, Events, How to, Testing

  Image Events Dispatch Order

  12.09.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Yesterday I’ve been working with images: loading, resizing, removing, etc. I got into a challenging issue: I had to vertically position a label after an image resize - but a resize that is triggered by setting maxWidth and maxHeight keeping also the aspect ratio.
  I tried to get the new width and height after the resize […]

  Popularity: 34%

• Events, Flex news

  360|Flex Sessions (18-20 august 2008 @ San Jose, CA) Available With Adobe Media Player

  21.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The sessions at 360|Flex Conference (18-20 august 2008 @ San Jose, CA) are available here (on Ted on Flex) and can be seen using Adobe Media Player. So…

  download and install Adobe Media Player
  open it and go to My Favourites
  press Add RSS Feed and paste this: http://sessions.onflex.org/1733261879.xml

  Now there should be 15 videos under 360|Flex Conference. […]

  Popularity: 39%

• ActionScript, Components, Events, MXML, Skin

  MatrixGrid Component - Extending The DataGrid

  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 […]

  Popularity: 69%

• ActionScript, Events, How to, MXML

  How To Add New Rows To DataGrid And Scroll To Last Added Row

  18.06.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  This will be a simple solution to be able to scroll to the last added row in a data grid. First of all I’ll explain what I mean and what I encountered when I needed to implement it.
  The expected behavior is after adding a new row into a data grid, it should scroll to […]

  Popularity: 84%

• 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: 61%

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

  How To Build a Download Application in Flex

  12.05.08 | Permalink | 4 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: 90%

• 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: 58%

• 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: 52%

• ActionScript, Events, How to, MXML

  Mouse Click and Space Key Press on a Button

  17.04.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Flex is a very powerful instrument but needs to be learned and studied. Some time ago I got into a bug - that is what I thought at the first impression - but is not. I talking about the MouseEvent.CLICK event which is triggered also by the KeyboardEvent.SPACE.
  Please try the following example and you’ll understand […]

  Popularity: 51%

• Events, Flex news, RIA

  Flex 3

  25.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  A few hours ago a message went across the world and did a lot of “damage”. It’s subject: “Adobe AIR, Flex Builder 3, and the Flex 3 SDK are now live !”
  Yes you heard right:Flex 3 is now final :).
  In the following days I will write an article about the differences between Flex 2.1 and […]

  Popularity: 26%

• ActionScript, Events, Javascript, MXML, RIA

  Browser Window Close Event and Flex Applications

  25.02.08 | Permalink | 2 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 […]

  Popularity: 79%

• ActionScript, Events, Flex 2

  Garbage Collector and events

  26.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  A feature of Flex (and any decent programming language) is the garbage collector. What it does? Once it detects that an object in memory is no longer needed it will clean up the memory. Simple no?
  Well is not that simple: you may have finished your work with that object but there are references to […]

  Popularity: 19%

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