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• Flex in the world, Flex resources, Made in Flex, RIA

  Three Very Good Flex Resource Sites

  07.03.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today I found this three sites filled with flex resources:
  - DeGraFa (Declarative Graphics Framework)
  - ScaleNine
  - Flexgeek
  DeGraFa is a framework made to do a much easier job when working with shapes, events, skinning, etc. ScaleNine is a collection of themes to use in flex applications and FlexGeek is a blog with very useful examples of how […]

  Popularity: 65%

• 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%

• RIA

  Three RIA Platforms Compared

  03.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

     As time passes the applications tend to move from thick software to thin web applications and they need to be platform and browser independent. This has happened because of the need of having applications that work on all platforms/browsers, have an easy way of getting the server side data, have more reach and also […]

  Popularity: 21%

• ActionScript, Flex 2

  Compare two objects

  07.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you ever wondered how can you compare 2 objects (big structure objects that can not be compared by Flex itself using the === operator) in Flex to find out if they are identically the same one of the methods used were to check all their attributes.
  Popularity: 22%

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• ActionScript, Flex IDE, RIA

  Debug/Logging Client-Side - Part 2

  29.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  In my previous post I started to talk about how you can see the same trace messages you were used from developing but this time in the “Release”.
  This is done with the help of the Log class (mx.logging.Log).
  Let’s take a look at some pieces of code (full code can be provided per request).

  private var […]

  Popularity: 40%

• Flex 2, RIA

  RIA Developer Camp

  29.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Adobe has announced a RIA Developer Camp November 5, 2007 4:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
  Details:
  Learn from other developer community leaders on how they use Adobe® Flex™ 2, Flash® CS3, and AIR™ (Adobe Integrated Runtime) to help them improve their business applications.
  Join this seminar and hear speakers from Yahoo!®, PayPal™, ActionScript.com, and Adobe discuss how business […]

  Popularity: 19%

• ActionScript, Flex 2, RIA

  FABridge: Warn on flex application exit

  25.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

  Popularity: 26%

• ActionScript, Flex IDE, RIA

  Debug/Logging Client-Side - Part 1

  24.10.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  One of the most common problems in developing new applications is their debugging. There are several methods to do this in Flex (trace, alert - like somebody once said: “Alert till death”). But what happens if you want the same logging that you had on your work environment to also be available when the application […]

  Popularity: 33%

• Books, Flex resources

  Adobe Developer Library

  22.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Adobe Developer Library is a co-publishing partnership between O’Reilly Media and Adobe Systems, Inc.
  Here you can buy best titles on flex development, it’s the best place to start if you need a book in order to learn about RIA (rich internet application) ,what Flex can do and how to do it.
  So go directly to the […]

  Popularity: 20%

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