Few days ago I found out about Adobe TV website which you may already know about. This site is about Adobe’s technologies explained using videos. Photographers, designers, video professionals and developers can use this to learn about Adobe’s products and technologies. There are lots and lots of presentations and tutorials regarding Flex, AIR, LiveCycle and [...]
In the past days I had to write a small app in AIR and one of the problems I came across was the saving of preferences locally. I needed to be able to read/write a file on the local file system. After some digging I found the answer and decided to make a small tutorial [...]
As I have played with RSLs more I saw something surprising: If I compile the swc into a swf the resulting swf is bigger (almost twice) as it should have been. When you use compc to create a SWC, the SWF inside the SWC contains a lot of unnecessary stuff when used as [...]
As you saw in the previous posts you can use RSLs to reduce the size of a flex application.
If you use mxml in your application you should know that behind the scenes Flex will include in the project a lot of classes and controls (some of them you do not even want). You [...]
In a previous article I told you about the benefits of RSL’s. But you need also to know how to create them from a swc and how to use them.
First step is to create a new “Flex Library Project”. Write all the code you want to have in it. Then in your main application [...]
If you ever wanted to make a complex application with Flex you always asked yourself: Is the swf to big? How can I reduce it’s size?
Here are some small tips that do not relate to flex only, and one specific to flex: