This week I’ve been working on a project that uses deep linking with SWFAddress library. SWFAddress is a useful tool that lets you go to a specified part of a flash site by changing the browser’s url.
Anyway this project was in part completed but had to do some changes and fix some bugs. Most bugs [...]
These days I was struggling with this problem: I needed to scroll the page (using javascript) to the embeded swf object. After some search and tests I used the following function (found here) to find the Y position of the object.
function findPosY(obj) {
var curtop = 0;
if(obj.offsetParent)
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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 [...]
One of the most common problems in the RIA applications that require login/logout and also some saves is how to prevent the user from closing the window/tab when there is unsaved information?
The answer is simple: FABridge.
This functionality allows you to catch the unload event from javascript and execute your flex code.
Here is how:
First you need [...]