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Flex 4 Custom Preloader

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

In this example were going to look at a way to create a custom preloader SWC in Flash Professional and use it inside of a Flex 4 application by extending the SparkDownloadProgressBar class. This preloader will display the progress percentage of loading and also a count of RSLs as they are being loaded, after loading [...]

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“Content Assist” did not complete normally – bat file workaround

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Follow up to my last post. I am having to do this enough that I wrote a bat file for it. Here is what it looks like if anyone is interested. Just copy and paste the code below into a notepad and save as a .bat file. I put mine in the root of my [...]

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“Content Assist” did not complete normally. Please see log for more information.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Here is a work around for this annoying bug in Flash Builder 4 beta 2: From: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FB-21566 Close Flash Builder 4 beta 2 Delete this folder in your workspace: \.metadata\.plugins\com.adobe.flexbuilder.codemodel. Relaunch Flash Builder 4 beta 2

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Example of Feature Rich Item Renderers in Flex 4

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

This is an example of creating feature rich item renderers in Flex 4. The example retrieves this blog’s RSS feed and displays each entry in a Spark List using Item Renderers. This example will demonstrate: Skinning an item renderer and list States in an item renderer Pass callback function to item renderer Override ItemRenderer ‘set [...]

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Join TMG at cfdevcamp in San Francisco Nov. 7th

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Join The Morphic Group at cfdevcamp in San Francisco November 7th 2009. cfdevcamp is a gathering of people passionate about learning through  collaboration.  Attendees will work in small teams to code projects  ideas from the team members or from a suggested list of projects.   This will not be a lecture style event or a traditional [...]

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Flash Camp St Louis 2009 – Code Samples

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

I had a great time presenting at Flash Camp St Louis this last Friday. The City Museum was a great venue. All the other speakers did a great job. Thanks JP for putting together such a great event! Here is the sample code I showed in the presentation. Rt-click and select View Source for the [...]

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Flash Camp St. Louis 2009 – This Friday

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Two TMG employees presenting at Flash Camp St. Louis this Friday at the City Museum, Ben Bishop and Jason Hanson. Should be a good time. If you are in St. Louis and have any interest in Flash, Flex, or Catalyst think about coming. Tickets still available. www.flashcampstlouis.com

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More Memory for FlexBuilder

Friday, August 14th, 2009

If you are like me and cannot stand long compile times you may find that increasing the memory allocation for FlexBuilder will help. To do this edit this file. Likewise, if FlexBuilder uses too much memory for your system you can make edits to this file. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\FlexBuilder.ini Here are my settings ### [...]

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Dear Blog Reader…

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Hey there stranger. Is that a new T-shirt? We like it. It’s clever. No really. We get it. You know what’s funny? We were just thinking about the last time we saw you. Yeah, no kidding. It seems like yesterday. You came here thinking your day was a total wash. You were on the brink [...]

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The Morphic Group’s New CAPTCHA

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

I try to do my part to make gmail more fun. (On the gmail sign in page it does say they’re trying to make email more fun.) The trouble with gmail is that most people’s gmail addresses are anything but fun. Most gmail addresses are something like fred.williams@gmail.com, whereas hotmail accounts are usually more like [...]

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