Embedding fonts is something that I’ve had to do a ton at my new job at gallup.  When trying to meet a certain brand, not to mention world wide application usage, you struggle with fonts multi-language fonts, and the horrible file size that comes with embedding them. I knew you could limit the character ranges […]

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I got accepted to speak at 360flex in august, for “Project Workflow” it’s going to be a 300 level preso.  It’s really open to interpretation, i’ll be going through a little bit of Subversion, and Trac, and will be pretty open to conversation about how I do things, and what things matter to me as […]

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This is a post to all the readers of my blog…  my old blog was at axel.cfwebtools.com, and almost 80% of my examples were there, anything posted from about mid march and before was over there… and they put a permanent redirect on my site, and  deleted the files… i have to wait till monday […]

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This post is a brief note on how to use reserved words like “id” and “class” with e4x in flex. Basically you have reserved keywords in flex like “id” and “class” amongst others… I was traversing through some xhtml that i brought in remotely and it had many div tags. One of the issues I […]

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This is another example of drawing with your mouse… This iteration has added one main feature, ResizeHandles to the LineTool. Now you can resize the Line as you please. Application – Source The basis of what changed in the line tool, is exactly what I stated above… if you take a look at Version 3 […]

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This is a post just to link and remind myself for this awesome engine. http://seraf.mediabox.fr/wow-engine/as3-3d-physics-engine-wow-engine/  note: i haven’t used it yet, but need to save the link so i don’t forget it…  the demo’s are really awesome.

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This is a short example on calling javascript from flex using ExternalInterface… Application – Source Please Note:  Javascript has to be on in your browser and the javascript is in the html-template > index.template.html file.

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This is a really awesome mp3 player that I made to mimic an actionscript 2 xspf player, but built with actionscript 3 and flex… it’s great and open source! Finally it’s here… OPEN SOURCE FLEX XML MP3 PLAYER Flex xml mp3 player Basically you can specify an xml playlist from the url, and have it […]

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Again, another post on how the Flex RichTextEditor blows goats… I’ve now completely taken the source from it, and made methods public or protected for extending in addition to adding the xhtmlText property… You can now override styling in the RichTextEditor and inject inline styles into things like a href tags… Application – Source This […]

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