The next release of Flex SDK is code-named Hero. It has three main goals:
Multi-Screen Development: Allow developers to build applications that target the web, desktop or mobile devices using a single unified framework.
Spark Maturation: Polish and grow the Spark architecture by adding new Spark components and capabilities.
Large-Application Development: Support developers building large applications by improving [...]
If you need to know the key codes when implementing a keyboard event use the following application that displays some info about the pressed key. First you need to click on the application to have focus on it then you can start trying out different key strokes.
Some key codes, ASCII codes [...]
Job description
On this job, you would:
Work in a great team of engineers
Be responsible for analyzing, designing, programming, debugging, and modifying for software/application enhancements and production
Completing documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance
May interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications
Requirements
For this job we are searching for people with:
Experience in client-side development (ActionScript, Flash, [...]
Flash MiniBuilder is a lightweight IDE created for developing programs written in ActionScript 3. Flash MiniBuilder is itself written in ActionScript.
Two of the main raison tobe of MiniBuilder are:
provide a completely free and cross platform alternative for developing ActionScript projects.
provide an editor with a small footprint that would eventually run on smaller computers like netbooks [...]
What is AMF and a bit of history
Action Message Format (AMF) is a compact binary format that is used to serialize ActionScript object graphs. Once serialized an AMF encoded object graph may be used to persist and retrieve the public state of an application across sessions or allow two endpoints to communicate through the exchange [...]
This is a good thing for us, developers. We will have the possibility to access this good resource free and easy. To quote their press release:
Since September 2009 FFD Magazine becomes online magazine. What is important – it will be also FREE of ANY charges. The only thing you need to do is to sign [...]
I’ve been working on an article for Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. The article’s name is How to use Yahoo! Maps in Flex and show how you can use Yahoo! Maps on your RIA. The article is based on two articles from our blog which had been combined and developed further.
The articles are:
How To Add [...]
Last week we received an email from someone having problems changing the position of the close button of a TitleWindow or Panel component. After a short brainstorming we found a solution and created a new component.
If you wonder how we did it the answer is simple: we extended the TitleWindow component and got into [...]
Position Name – Flex Developer
For a project in Europe we are looking for Flex developers to build a team at Bucharest. This project contains a Flex frontend with a .Net backend.
Position Summary
Mida4u is looking for an experienced and highly-motivated software engineer with a passion for creating great web applications. This person will work in a [...]
If you need and auto resized text area then you are in problems. As far as I know there is no property to use to make a text area auto resizeable.
I really needed an auto resizable text area so I started searching and studying. I found that we can use mx_internal properties, variables and methods [...]
This article is a follow-up of this two: How To Make an Image With Border and Continuing Image With Border. I’m writing it in order to show you that you can import Image With Border component in a Panel. Mike had some problems using the component so here it is.
To use Image With Border just [...]
DataGrid is a interesting, very useful component. Lots of things can be added to it. This time we will want to emphasize some row that will satisfy a predefined condition – in a DataGrid.
The application is very simple. Just to show you how you can achieve it. In order to do that we will have [...]
Last year I had to do an update to a flash website. The client needed a news widget that will read the news from o specified location using XML. I thought… I’ll create a new component containing the image, the title, the date and the text, then use a repeater to display them. Easy job [...]
This is a small working example about how to use an image as a background for a canvas, and how to crop and resize images. I’m sure that there are different approaches to this issue, so you are welcome to add your own solutions.
In order to crop the initial image, that was already [...]
This was a tricky issue… but solvable. I needed to found a way to collapse the left panel of a HDividedBox. This can be easily done by using moveDividerTo() method or setting getDividerAt().x (for vertical getDividerAt().y) property to the desired value. The problem is this: if you want to collapse the left at double click [...]