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 [...]

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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 a [...]

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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 [...]

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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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We have a customer that would like to upload a file, and this file is a delimited text file… The first line is a Quoted date (“Tuesday, January 23, 2007″)… but as it gets read into coldfusion it is not a valid date… so what you have to do is convert it, using the “DateFormat()” [...]

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Some of the things I would like to do is extend the mx:Tree in flex 2, I would like custom images, or font… or anything to just customize this tree. The main purpose of why i want to do this is to show an icon by each tree node, that represents a certain thing about [...]

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We are using the mx:RichTextEditor to edit a description of some sort…. the html that the rich texteditor outputs is the following <TEXTFORMAT LEADING=“2″><P ALIGN=“LEFT”><FONT FACE=“Verdana” SIZE=“10″ COLOR=“#0B333C” LETTERSPACING=“0″ KERNING=“0″>test</FONT></P></TEXTFORMAT> If you copy and past this code into an html page, the font shows up huge much like so: test Ryan Stille, Jason H. of [...]

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The syntax is a little tricky but I found it on the google groups, by searching “get a markers latitude” marker.getPoint().lat(); it’s very tricky because there isn’t a ton of documentation that show examples of this.

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I’m trying to do a loop, and call a javascript function in flex for every loop. The loop only seems to call the javascript once the loop is done… and it only calls it for the last iteration of the loop. To reproduce the issue do the following:

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I ran into the issue when querying this service, and hit the whole “Connection Failure” Problem, this confused me, and after about an hour of my own trouble shooting i hit the search engines and found that there is some known issue with formating…. you must include charset=”utf-8″ in the tag… there are a number [...]

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I was assigned with a task to make a working example of using google maps, and I really wanted to use flex 2.0. I want my movie to cover the full screen, and then i want to use CSS to overlay on top of the .swf file to make it appear as though, my google [...]

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After some pretty extensive research, I was able to find a good blog post about a similar subject… The problem…

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was searching up and down how to convert asfusion.com’s example of filtering data, done in actionscript 2.0, to convert it to actionscript 3.0 http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/7/13/Filtering-Data-In-Flex

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There was a post on an adobe forum wondering how to go about doing this, they state that they go on and on looking for how to do this, and so i’m gonna help’em out…

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Short and to the point. View the example Download the File <style> <!– #title{ font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position:relative; top:5px; left:5px; } #text { color:#000000; position: relative; z-index:2; top:0; left:0; } #shadow { color:#999999; position:absolute; z-index:1; top:1px; left:1px; } –> </style> <body> <div id=“title”> <a href=“#”><span id=“text”>Alice in Wonderland</span></a> <span id=“shadow”>Alice in Wonderland</span> </div> </body>

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this is a great plug-in for firefox… it’s an IE tab plug in, from within firefox… great for developing, and trying to get css to work. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/

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Somebody once told me they didn’t like flash forms because they were far too limited, I agree that flex is a better choice after using flex… but I would also say, that flash forms in coldfusion 7.0.2 have their own place as well…

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I come from the remoting background in flash, and so i’m wondering what kind of code flex generates in the background… here is how you look at it.

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