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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Flex 4 Custom Preloader
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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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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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
Read full blog post: “Content Assist” did not complete normally. Please see log for more information.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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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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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
Read full blog post: Flash Camp St. Louis 2009 – This Friday
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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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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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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Friday, April 10th, 2009
When creating web ads for third party companies, you maybe asked to add a clickTag, a reference to an external variable. The variable is passed from within the html Object/Embed tags via query string or FlashVar parameter. This allows an ad manager to track the click-through of the Flash SWF. Usually, the ad manager would [...]
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When creating web ads for third party companies, you maybe asked to add a clickTag, a reference to an external variable. The variable is passed from within the html Object/Embed tags via query string or FlashVar parameter. This allows an ad manager to track the click-through of the Flash SWF. Usually, the ad manager would [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Read full blog post: Deconstruction and reconstruction of a ByteArray
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 [...]
Read full blog post: Deconstruction and reconstruction of a ByteArray