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Conferences, Meetings & Events, Flash Catalyst, Flex 2, Flex 3 SDK, Flex 4 SDK, Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex in the world
How It’s Made – Mark Anders
Andrei Ionescu | 21.01.10 | Permalink | Comment?

Wednesday, 27th of January, in Bucharest, Mark Anders, the creator of Flash Catalyst will tell us how Flash Catalyst appeared and how it got done. For anyone who doesn’t know about him, Mark Anders is a major contributor for the whole Adobe Flex platform.
The meeting starts at 6 PM but we will start gather and [...]
Flex 2, Flex resources
Tour de Flex
Stelian Crisan | 27.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

As a was write the post about Tour de LiveCycle I just realize that we don’t have a post about Tour de Flex. So …
I use Tour de Flex from last year and I got what I need some times. It’s a tool for large use but it’s all you need in order to [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Flex 2, Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex in the world, Flex news
Flex Builder Rebranded into Flash Builder
Andrei Ionescu | 21.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Many of you may already know about the rebranding of Flex Builder. It will no longer be named Flex Builder but Flash Builder. Adobe took this action in order to make the Flash name (and platform) a stronger one. Flex will not disappear but it will remain as framework. Neither Flash IDE. I know many [...]
ActionScript, Bugs, Flex 2, Flex Builder 3, Web Service
Number.toString bug
Virgil Cristea | 20.11.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

Last week I had to write a small piece of code to send to a webservice a number from a text input. All was fine for the normal test values (0,1,100). The problem appeared when I tried to send the number -9223372036854775808. Instead of receiving this number I got -9223372036854776000. So I started to do [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Flex 2
Flex Builder cannot locate the required version of Flash Player Error: Firefox & FP 9.0.124
Andrei Ionescu | 02.06.08 | Permalink | 10 Comments

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 [...]
AIR, Flex 2, How to, RIA
Override classes from included libraries
Virgil Cristea | 11.05.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

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 [...]
ActionScript, CSS, Flash, Flash Player, Flex 2, Flex Builder 3, Flex resources
HTML Tags And Attributes Supported by Flash Player
Andrei Ionescu | 08.05.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

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 [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Flex 2
Converting a flex 2 app to air
Virgil Cristea | 23.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

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 [...]
Flex 2, Flex in the world, Flex news
Flex 360 Conference in Europe
Virgil Cristea | 19.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

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 .
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, CSS, Flex 2, How to, Skin
How To Remove the “Black Line” from a Tree Control (Drag and Drop Enabled)
Andrei Ionescu | 08.02.08 | Permalink | 8 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, CSS, Flex 2, How to, MXML, Skin
Custom skin for tab bar navigator
Stelian Crisan | 08.02.08 | Permalink | 8 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 | 19 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.
Flex 2, Flex IDE, Flex resources
FlexSpy (fxSpy) – a great tool for flex developers
Stelian Crisan | 31.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

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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