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• 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: 27%

• ActionScript, Events, How to, MXML

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

  18.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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: 59%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML

  Continuing Image With Border

  12.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  In the last article I explained how to create an image surrounded by border. That article is a start for fixing the issue: “image doesn’t have border style”.
  Now I extended even more the new ImageBorder component to be able to center it horizontally and vertically and still be well displayed.
  Modifications were made in updateDisplayList method […]

  Popularity: 62%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML

  How To Make an Image With Border

  10.06.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  How to put border around an image? How to do that when you set only maxWidth and maxHeight? This is not an easy task. Googleing about my issue I found this, on Adobe’s LiveDocs (you must go at the end where comments are): a couple of helpful comments where Justin.Buser is, literally, drawing a rectangle […]

  Popularity: 61%

• ActionScript, How to, MXML

  How To Set Focus on UIComponent

  06.06.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  That is a  verry small isue, but some times we really need a fast answer.
  I try to use setFocus method for diffrent UIComponents, for most of them it’s ok, but for a button for example you can’t see focus border using only setFocus method, so the solutions is to use also drawFocus method.
  drawFocus method is […]

  Popularity: 71%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML, css

  ImageRail - Adding Click Event, Styles And HandCursor

  05.06.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Some time ago, in a previous article I presented you ImageRail component that displays some thumbnails with possibility to scroll to left or right. Now we will add some new features that were missing.

  Click Event - imageClick
  Styles - imageBackgroundAlpha
  HandCursor

  Click event will be triggered when there is a click on an image, more precisely, on the […]

  Popularity: 81%

• ActionScript, MXML

  Sorting in DataGrid Using an Arbitrary/External Column

  03.06.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  What I mean in the title is this: having a data grid with a column containing some priorities (like: urgent, normal, high) among other columns, you want to sort by this priority column, but you notice that is not sorted by its importance but alphabetically. To make it crystal clear follow the example bellow…
  Having the […]

  Popularity: 62%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML

  How To Add an Event To a Custom MXML Component using Event Meta Tag

  30.05.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Using events is fun in MXML components is fun and easily you can specify events using Event meta tag inside the component like this:
  <mx:Metadata>
  [Event(name=”myevent”, type=”com.MyEvent”)]
  </mx:Metadata>
  The following lines defines the myevent attribute of the component like this:

  <com:FramedImage x="10" y="10" myevent="handleMyEvent(event)" … />

  FramedImage component is a custom component which displays a framed image.
  For […]

  Popularity: 63%

• ActionScript, Components, How to, MXML

  Image Gallery Component - ImageRail

  29.05.08 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  In this article I’ll present a new component I built: ImageRail. This MXML component will display a series of thumbnails having the possibility to scroll them horizontally.
  Parameters:

  paths: an array containing URLs to images
  images: an array containing image objects
  imagesToShow: an unsigned integer that specifies the number of images displayed at a time - deafult is […]

  Popularity: 89%

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

  How To Build a Download Application in Flex

  12.05.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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: 100%

• ActionScript, How to, MXML, PHP, Security, Web Service

  Using Shared Objects: Login Process with Remember Password

  09.05.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  In this post we will implement a login process with remember password functionality. In AS3 and also in AS2 we can use a SharedObject to store data on the users browser. Shared objects are similar to the all known browser cookies but are managed by the flash player. Shared objects can store data also remotely […]

  Popularity: 87%

• ActionScript, How to, MXML

  ComboBox With Tooltip

  07.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you use Combo boxes to display options in some cases you may want to display options that are containing more than a few words. Maybe you want to know how a user arrived on your flex application and you want him to select from some complex options, but in the same time you don’t […]

  Popularity: 62%

• ActionScript, Events, How to, MXML

  Mouse Click and Space Key Press on a Button

  17.04.08 | Permalink | 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: 77%

• ActionScript, Events, Javascript, MXML, RIA

  Browser Window Close Event and Flex Applications

  25.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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: 98%

• ActionScript, Flex 2, How to, MXML

  Custom skin for tab bar navigator

  08.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 69%

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