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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%

• 3D, ActionScript

  ROXIK Sharikura 3D Library

  27.06.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Today I found a new 3D engine: AS3 ROXIK Sharikura 3D Library. It is great from what I could see from their demos. Interesting is this demo where you can add more and more object to the animation but the animation is not jerky.
  The library at this moment is not released but Masayuki Kido […]

  Popularity: 36%

• ActionScript, Debug, How to

  Dump Debug Method (Like var_dump Function in PHP) and Debug Class

  25.06.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Although Flex Builder and Eclipse do have nice debug utilities built in, today I needed a function/method in Actionscript to display into the current application some variables’ content. So I started to implement a var_dump alike function (var_dump from PHP language).
  So I started and I made the Debug class that will implement the static dump […]

  Popularity: 35%

• 3D, ActionScript, How to, Tweening

  How To Use FIVe3D And Tweening in Flex

  19.06.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  In a previous article I explained how to use FIVe3D with Flex and because fl.motion is not included into the Flex Framework we had to find out a workaround. I commented out the lines that referenced fl.motion but Kelvin Luck found another way: “copy the classes from Flash CS3 Actionscript framework into the project”. So […]

  Popularity: 67%

• 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%

• 3D, ActionScript, How to

  How To Use FIVe3D In Flex

  17.06.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  For some time I’ve been planning to use FIVe3D of Mathieu Badimon, in Flex, not in Flash. I’ve been trying to make it work but no success ’till now.
  After more than 4, 5 tries, I’ve managed to take the example from the FIVe3D framework and implemented it in Flex. It was not an easy task […]

  Popularity: 71%

• 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, 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: 71%

• 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%

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