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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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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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This it’s a clean example about how to add a CSS style to a component in Flex.
We need to create the CSS file (style.css) and add a custom style:
.myStyle {
font-size: 20px;
color: #cc0000;
}
Make a new Flex project and in the defalul MXML aplication file add this code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute" >
<!–// Here we call our […]
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So you need a modal window and you are using Flex :). This a small example that will open a modal window when application it’s initialized. I put the title to the modal window, but you can add also an icon.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute" initialize="openModalWindow()">
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A bunch of examples for Adobe Flex and ActionScript.It’s a good starting point if you need help on any problem. There are examples with sources (mxml files) and a working swf.
I thing this is a really useful tool for everyone how it’s thinking to start using Flex.
So visit Peter deHaan’s blog at […]
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Having the code bellow:
<mx:application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
layout="absolute">
<mx:script>
<!–[CDATA[
public static const menubarXML:XMLList =
<root>
<menuitem label="main1" data="1">
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