Archive for March, 2008
Posted in March 28th, 2008
There was a post on Adding animations and effects to Tooltips in flex at blog.flexexamples.com I thought this was a great simple example… I wanted to show how to customize a PopUp with a similar effect. Application – Source You can also right click to view the source. 1. Create a component for the PopUp, […]
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Posted in March 28th, 2008
Just noting for myself on how to update tables from other tables… Say you have a table called “customers” and you have a customerID as the primary key… you now have a cross reference table that joins customers to certain products, it’s only a 1 to 1 relationship in our situation (not very real world […]
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Posted in March 28th, 2008
This is just a self reminder, a quick video i found online of creating rounded type glossy buttons in photoshop… it’s fairly short and quite helpful to a novice. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO Photorealism with Bert Monroy: Volume 1 with: Bert Monroy is good on lynda.com (self reminder)
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Posted in March 26th, 2008
Ever want to drag a container, and have an Image of the container and it’s contents drag along with the mouse, much like when dragEnabled is set to true on a ListBase Component Like List, Tree, DataGrid, etc… You see the data that your dragging, in this image that has it’s alpha set to .5… […]
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Posted in March 24th, 2008
Extending the mx.core.RichTextEditor to give it and xhtmlText property using regular expressions. That sentence is pretty self explanatory. Application – Source I’ve written on the the mx.controls.RichTextEditor before in flex… and there are some issues with the HTML that it outputs. That post states that the htmlText the the RichTextEditor pretty much blows as far […]
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Posted in March 20th, 2008
This example walks through a simple implementation of filtering data in an ArrayCollection. It shows how to use an ItemRenderer, and to utilize the new ItemsChangeEffect in Flex 3. Application – Source In flex 3 they introduced a new listBased effect, so it effects anything that is listbased, the datagrid, the list, the tree, the […]
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Posted in March 19th, 2008
Air developer connection link…. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1427019 Awesome air app that has tons of community components listed, with example showings… it’s pretty awesome!
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
Our power went out last night, and when I left work yesterday, I wanted to comeback later, and continue working, so I left some code up with flex builder open, and when the power went out, my computer rebooted… No huge surprise so far… but when I started flex builder back up my navigator was […]
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
Using the Tree with Drag and Drop Functionality APPLICATION – SOURCE Here are some of the things I’m going to run through: 1. A brief description of what the data scriptor is, and how you might use it 2. Walking the Tree 3. LiveDocs DefaultDataDescriptor Documentation 4. Why you would use xml, what you […]
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
I found this entry and found it useful…. http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/36 Everything below is a direct copy and paste of the link above… but I don’t want to take the risk, should that link ever go down… In Windows Explorer: Right click on the folder and click Search.. Enter .svn as the filename to search for. Click […]
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
I read this and thought it was worth noting… so check it… CLICK HERE TO VIEW BLOG.FLEXEXAMPLES.COM
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
When I googled “sorting dates in a datagrid in flex” I found all sorts of outdated material, and some really complicated results, that i tried, but they just didnt happen to work in my situation… i’m not sure what everyone else was doing to create their dates, but I’ve heard a number of people […]
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
You know… I’ve grown very fond of cfeclipse and have learned that when you do updates, and start getting miscellaneous errors, and you can’t seem to get anything working… to just start over and stop wasting time spinning your wheels trying to fix it. I spent my fair share of time, trying to get cfeclipse […]
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
Extend the DataGrid to make a selectedValue. Note: This is very much just a modified version of what Ben Forta’s Fix to this issue is the ColdFusions CFForm Combobox having a selectedValue. Here is his post I did find use of the selectedValue very appealing, and wanted the datagrid to have the same functionality… the […]
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
APPLICATION – SOURCE Long time no tech talk…. Alright so one of the recent things we had to do at cfwebtools was create an application for a client, where they had total control over all of these form fields… they essentially want to be able to create any form, for anything, and be able to […]
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
There is this man named Andy Mckee that blew up on the internet, that is absolutely phenomenal, and the sounds he makes with his guitar just captivate me. I’m a huge music fan… hense my site: http://www.killtheheart.com http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5443B055F53E7DD7
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Posted in March 11th, 2008
<a href=”http://www.mikenimer.com/index.cfm/2007/1/10/Bye-bye-services” target=”_blank”>MIKE NIMER</a> This is a great useful read.
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Posted in March 1st, 2008
While making this flying spaceship, I want the ship to rotate to my mouse, to do this, here is the basic code to do so…. var dx:Number = mouseX – x; var dy:Number = mouseY – y; var angle:Number = Math.atan2(dy, dx); this.rotation = angle * 180 / Math.PI; Application – Source Please note this […]
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