Today I upgraded my flash player to version 9.0.124 and I’m referring to the debug version of it.
The upgrade went OK on IE, I downloaded the version for IE from Adobe’s download page (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/9/flashplayer_9_ax_debug.exe), I installed it and everything worked out.
I was thinking: “Great! That was easy! Let’s do it for Firefox also…”. I […]
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During last week I had to do a small application for AIR. That was until friday when I had to release it and found out that the app had to work also in normal browser. Since almost all the code was independent of the type of app (AIR/Flex) my task was pretty easy:
Get all existing […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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During 7-9 April 2008 there is a Flex meeting in Milano. Price 360 euros. More details here or here.
I may be there as well :).
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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 […]
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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 […]
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This it’s an working example of how you can customize your tab bar navigation.
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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 […]
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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.
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One of my friends was so kind and tell me about his tool and I think it’s really good.
SO, Flex-Spy allow you to inspect and dynamically change most properties and styles of the visual components in your Flex application.
Check it out a live at: http://www.mieuxcoder.com/data/2007/12/FlexSpy-1.2/dashboard.html (in the application, click the flexSpy button on the top-right […]
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As I have played with RSLs more I saw something surprising: If I compile the swc into a swf the resulting swf is bigger (almost twice) as it should have been. When you use compc to create a SWC, the SWF inside the SWC contains a lot of unnecessary stuff when used as […]
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As you saw in the previous posts you can use RSLs to reduce the size of a flex application.
If you use mxml in your application you should know that behind the scenes Flex will include in the project a lot of classes and controls (some of them you do not even want). You […]
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In a previous article I told you about the benefits of RSL’s. But you need also to know how to create them from a swc and how to use them.
First step is to create a new “Flex Library Project”. Write all the code you want to have in it. Then in your main application […]
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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:
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