Posts Tagged ‘Flex’

A Chat About PHP with Adobe Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

With all the hoopla that is going on with the Flash Platform… probably the biggest news comes from Flash Builder 4 (Flex) with Data Services. The new wizards that can introspect your data service and help you create code to build effortlessly (well at least it is a good start). You may use whatever flavor [...]

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Notes: Adding SEO to a Flex web site

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

SEO or Search engine optimization is the skill set that helps market your web site/application. It is the process of improving the search results of a web site in popular search engines, such as Yahoo and Google. What it all comes down to is how your web content, text, is presented and referenced into searches. [...]

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The Morphic Group ‘Indycar Race Control’

Monday, June 8th, 2009

The Morphic Group along with Conviva and Indy Race League is proud to present their latest creation, Indycar Race Control: Indycar Race Control is a fully immersive way to experience Indy Racing. Not only can you watch the live race or in-car video but you can monitor each car’s telemetry data. Here are just some [...]

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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 I [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Example of Feature Rich Dynamic Item Renderers in Flex 3

Friday, February 20th, 2009

In the last Flex 3 rich feature item renderer example we looked at item renderers that had some nice visual and functional features, in this example we will take it to the next step and introduce some dynamic abilities to the item renderers. By using dynamic item renderers you can create more flexible & reusable [...]

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Slider Track Click And Drag

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

The default Flex Slider component allows you to click the track to update the thumb position but does not begin the dragging of the thumb. I wanted that drag behavior but didn’t want to write my own Slider from scratch. I love to read code so I looked at the mx source and found a [...]

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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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Example of Feature Rich ItemRenderers in Flex

Monday, September 15th, 2008

In response to some requests I got from friends wanting some more real world ItemRenderer examples, here is one that approaches the item renderer from a graphical approach and brings together some different techniques to create a nicely featured ItemRenderer. Here is what this example DataGrid/ItemRender demonstrates: MXML based ItemRenderer Override ItemRenderer ‘set data’ have [...]

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