APPLICATION – SOURCE Using a simple Item Renderer is very simple in flex. You may have seen the attribute a in a few different places called “itemRenderer”. The itemRenderer is available to any ListBase Class… the ListBase class implements the IListItemRenderer Interface, any of the following by default implement the IListItemRenderer: Button, ComboBox, Container, [...]

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  My previous post was on using the dataTip in flex… the link is here: CLICK HERE TO GO TO PREVIOUS POST I’m talk briefly from time to time with Maikel Sibbald from holland, and I used his post on using tooltips and the customization of them… ( I loved the post Mike! ) Someone [...]

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Protecting an object from going out of a certain x value. Use “D” on the keyboard to move the ship right, and “A” to move left. Application – Source This is a continuation off from my post Keyboard Management for games in Actionscript 3 where I talk about managing multiple keys being held down at [...]

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A solution to multiple keys being held down at once. When you listen to KEY_UP in flex, or actionscript 3.0 there are some issues by acting on the KEY_UP Event. Especially for games in actionscript 3.0. Application – Source In the Application, start off by pressing “D” to move right, and “A” to move left. [...]

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360flex is going to Europe, please checkout http://www.360conferences.com/ for details. I believe it’s next month or something like that, at least thats what tom said up on the mic this morning. 360flex is an absolute blast, it’s great company, full of intelligent people, and I couldn’t ask for more of a conference to go to. [...]

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Application – Source We are wrapping up with this great charting application at cfwebtools, and we get a call from a customer that says our data is wrong…. We listen to them, and debug, and for some reason we just can’t quite see the same thing he see’s… On top of that, no one else [...]

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  View Application – View Source I’ve ran into a few situations where I’ve needed to control form focus in flex… as well as the default button control… this is done soo very simply in flex. Usually with my component I have a creationComplete=”init()” and that executes the following code *NOTE: to manage the default [...]

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I have been wondering how to do this for a while, and here is a fantastic post on this subject. You need to do a couple of things… the first is this post: it explains what you need to rename your file to for the flex builder to see what to do. morearty.com/blog … First [...]

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We are doing a rather Humongous Flex Project here and cfwebtools, one that involves using RemoteClass in flex, to tie our Backend objects to our front end objects. I’m using coldfusion in an Object Oriented Programming (OOP) fashion, where in many situations, your objects invoke one another using (createObject) or something along those lines. I’ve [...]

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APPLICATION – SOURCE Ever find your self limited when trying to use a flex widget of some sort, in a regular html form? Say you have a list of product category’s, and then you have a datagrid that gets populated from the drop down… now you want a second empty datagrid, to drag and drop [...]

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Space is a big deal in flex… or any kind of interface development. A lot of times you have a menu, with navigation, that takes up a good portion of your screen, and frankly… it sucks… it’s like… “where did all my space that I started with go? How did I end up so constrained?” [...]

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  Alright… VIEW APPLICATION – SOURCE HERE First of all, using the Tree in Flex 2, it takes hierarchical data for the dataProvider, (I use XMLListCollection, and ArrayCollections) I find xml easier because by nature it is already hierarchical and there are a lot of posts out there about this, some of the ones that [...]

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You may hire out as a development company specialized in coldfusion for a designer… That designer may know flash, and and maybe they know a lot about design, and color schemes. CHECK OUT THE PHOTO GALLERY CLICK HERE RIGHT CLICK TO VIEW SOURCE You just can’t beat in house development For Example, Coldfusion can generate [...]

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There are times, when I use component, and things tend to get a little cramped on the interface. When I use components like the DataGrid, and the mx:Tree, often times, I find myself having those be the core data holders, and when you select them it creates a class, and other things change on the [...]

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There are times when I fight and fight the interface in flex. This happens when you embed components within other components and those components are in other containers like HBox, VBox, Canvas, or any other container… Also say your using ViewStacks, and you throw that into the mix, and all the sudden you have a [...]

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There are times when you want to be able to determine if a user has enough bandwidth to go to that specific site, and you want to display to them a friendly message, telling them that maybe unknown errors could possibly occur… or that the site deals with media, and just plain disallow them access [...]

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I wonder if there is gonna be anyone at 360flex playing rockband? They are doing an API contest at 360 flex and they are giving away an xbox 360 and a ps3… I think they should have a rock band in one of the open parties after the conference hours. I think people would have [...]

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Some one online mailed the flexcoders yahoo list and asked for some assistance… I took this as a challenge, because I have been assigned at work to do some similar tasks within the near future, and I thought this was a perfect opportunity to get some practice in. http://axelscript.com/wp-content/cfwtExamples/Taftp/bin/main.html (right click to view source) Many [...]

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This mp3 player takes the simple mp3 player on adobe labs, http://labs.flexcoders.nl/?p=22 and adds multiple tracks capabilities. [updated: 10.17.07] i’ve released the open source flex mp3 player, its the version that is much better/more advanced than this… click here go read the entry. It uses a simple arrayCollection to hold the data from the mp3 [...]

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I’m trying to access an mp3′s id3 tags… I keep getting an error when I run try to load any specific mp3. SecurityError: Error #2122: Security sandbox violation Sound.id3 ========================================== On the start of my application I have a init() function that gets executed on creationComplete. I utilize this function to setup all of my [...]

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