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://axel.cfwebtools.com/devel/Taftp/bin/main.html (right click to view source)
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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 files, [...]

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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
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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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There was a post on flexcoders about using a custom preloader, someone replied with a link to Ted Patrick and here is the post on his blog. TED ON FLEX - CUSTOM PRELOADERS

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Somebody posted on a forum and asked “How do you get a mx:Tree to populate with query data from flex?” Most of the examples out there use xml in the mx:Tree so I did the same…
There are a few ways to get your query data to valid xml…
You can go to cflib.org and get [...]

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I’ve been working with the StringValidator, and EmailValidator, and I’ve even worked with some regex validation in Flex.
Adobe has a great quickstart guide to using the validators, which I recommend to anyone as a starting point. At the end of that page you will find a very long mxml page, that seems like [...]

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This is a great example grouping in a datagrid as well as displaying columns by choice… it’s fantastic!
http://stackoverflowexception.blogspot.com/2007/01/minor-update-of-grid-component.html

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This is just a syntax reminder to myself
I could imagine myself playing with the effects in flex for hours… but they take a quite a while to master… the move effects, tend to be a little trickier because they seem to rearrange the form some what, depending on the mouse over issues….
say you click [...]

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If you notice the selectedIndex of an mx:List or anything list based for that matter, be it a, tree, combobox, or anything that is built of the base List… whenever the dataprovider changes the selectedIndex is lost…. say i want to bind my
<mx:List id=“myList” selectedIndex=“{customClass.someID}”>

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