Archive for March, 2009

Embeding Fonts for use in TextFormat and CSS

Friday, March 20th, 2009

I regularly have problems embedding fonts in my SWF files. There are a variety of different ways to embed fonts; many of which are detailed in the documentation. I am going to show my preferred way to embed fonts that solve many of the problems are arise when embedding fonts in other ways.
One of the biggest issues that [...]

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Setting Parameters With The Same Name Using URLVariables

Friday, March 20th, 2009

The ability to set and send form parameters with the same name is available with URLVariables though it’s not quite documented very well (at all?).
Below are 4 examples of setting 2 values with same parameter name. The first example results in 1 parameter. The rest result in 2 parameters as expected.
 
// results in 1 parameter
var [...]

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Disable Caching In Firefox

Monday, March 9th, 2009

This is a silly post. I’m going to write something that probably everyone else in the whole Flex world already knows. But I didn’t know this. And it was helpful for me.
For a project I’m working on we are having to integrate a feature that uses a .swc provided by the client. This feature, which [...]

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