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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, 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

  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, 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, 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, Security

  CAPTCHA in Flex - Using to Check the User

  09.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Now here is an example how to check a user using our CAPTCHA.
  

  
  For source files see bellow.
  Popularity: 38%captcha

  Popularity: 38%

• ActionScript, Security

  CAPTCHA in Flex - Running Example

  01.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  And now here is a running example. This shows how to generate a CAPTCHA setting about 4 parameters.
  

  
  More parameters can be added to this example, like dots size, polygons transparency, font size but all that are features.
  Enjoy!
  PS: Sources are bellow.
  Popularity: 38%captcha

  Popularity: 38%

• ActionScript, Flex 2, MXML

  Add CSS style to a component

  30.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 43%

• ActionScript, Flex 2, MXML

  Simple modal window in ActionScript

  29.10.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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()">
   
  […]

  Popularity: 39%

• ActionScript, Flex resources, MXML, Made in Flex

  Flex Examples

  17.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 37%

• ActionScript, MXML

  To disable an item of a MenuBar

  11.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  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">
  […]

  Popularity: 26%

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