Archive for June, 2008

LineLimitText Component: Text With maxLines Property

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

A little while ago I worked on a project that required some Flex screens to have text fields display dynamic text using a specified maximum number of lines. A simple solution would be to merely define a height on a Text component. In this case there were other components that ...

Better Unit Tests With FlexUnit

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

This is probably not news. In fact, it's definitely not _new_ news on account of I learned about it from Theo Hultberg's blog from a post from last year (http://blog.iconara.net/2007/02/06/flexunit/). However, it was, rather embarassingly, news to me, and therefore I'll post it just in case someone else doesn't know ...

Flash Video: The Best of Both Worlds (or how I learned to love Cue Points)

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Video is the word. It is now used every capacity on the net. The idea of using video with animation is not new. Some would swear by using After Effects solely and not consider building flash timeline animation with video. In some case, you use what you know. And at ...

Anonymous Functions From ExternalInterface

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

I've been working on an ActionScript library for a project. One of the recent and new requirements for this library is that it has to interface with a JavaScript API for a browser plugin. The JavaScript API for this particular plugin requires constructing instances of JavaScript objects, maintaining persistent references ...