Archive for December, 2008

Holiday Gift from The Morphic Group

Friday, December 19th, 2008

It’s the season of giving, and The Morphic Group Lab has two presents with your name on them. While it’s true that The Morphic Group is known for heavy-duty engineering in Flash, Flex, and AIR, we like to cut loose and play a few games now and then too.
Our engineers have been sneaking away from [...]

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Using Gumbo and itemRendererFunction to create multiple ItemRenderers

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Gumbo has added an "itemRendererFunction" function that allows certain data containers to specify an itemRenderer based on the data item. In this example an FxDataContainer’s dataProvider is set to an ArrayCollection that contains 2 different types of Value Objects. Depending on the type of Value Object the itemRendererFunction returns a different itemRenderer.

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Gumbo and Catalyst Photo Viewer Application

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

I’ve posted an example of a Flex application created with the MAX preview versions of Flash Catalyst and Gumbo. This small demo application was created to test out some of the new features in both Catalyst and Gumbo. It is not a perfect project, but a starting point for further projects.

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Deconstruction and reconstruction of a ByteArray

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Many times you may come up with tasks that seem pretty straight forward but involve a bit of researching. In a recent project, I needed to find a way pass a dynamically generated image from one flex application (swf) to another. My senior developer suggested that I pass the ByteArray data of the image via [...]

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