This post is a recommendation for flex 4 or a plugin for flex builder 3… So, I was talking with my pal John Wilker (one of the two masterminds behind 360flex conferences) and I was bitching to him saying that it’s gay when you have to debug mouse move events in flex, because you want [...]

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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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Application – Source Lately I’ve been super busy, I’ve been getting some good hours for side work, and have been working on this really awesome charting application it’s not customizable to the extent of StockFetcher, but it’s cool in it’s own right. Everything is driven and built dynamically based off of an xml file. The [...]

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The newest version of cfeclipse runs on the newest version of eclipse (version 3.3) and I came across a link looking up some errors, and found this link. and thought it might come in useful at a later date… then I could have eclipse, cfeclipse and flex builder back together like I used to…. http://www.eclipsezone.com/articles/howto-flexbuilder2/

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Application – Source Making Flex LOOK 3D!!! Just to state, this in no way talks about papervision3d. I was asked to put a bid out for a project that required walking through a 3D house, and I thought to myself… “Flash vs. Flex” granted either one, could make it happen… I didn’t want to over [...]

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So I was searching for a resizable titleWindow today, and ran into a great link and thought I should throw a blog entry out there that way I can remember it. http://fleksray.org/adobe_flex_components_en.html Our XML MP3 Player is even on this link! woot! http://flex.org/components/

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Did some searching today, and ran across a great example, and blog entry by Andrew Trice I’ve always had the urge to sit down and come up with a way to do a family tree, and have images of my family and what not, and map them to each other, that way i don’t have [...]

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Drawing in Flex using the UIComponent (part 3) Application – Source This upgrade added more white board like enhancement, now you can highlight a tool that is on the wrapper, after you have drawn it, and press delete on your keyboard to delete it, you can also drag and move the drawings… Application – Source

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Found this really good entry with bunch of links that are good. http://www.brightworks.com/technology/adobe_flex/testing_debugging_agile_methods.html Joe Rineharts entry/tutorial on CF and FlexUnit http://www.firemoss.com/blog/index.cfm?mode=entry&entry=658DF66B-3048-55C9-43662A44BE6E39A9 Flex Unit w/ cairngorm http://jharbs.com/blog/?p=96

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I get very closed minded sometimes… and this is one of those times… when working with flash remoting with the ColdFusion 7.0.2 updater, there were a lot of good examples on http://www.asfusion.com, I followed them a lot, they were all great… they specified how to create a connection like the following: //create connection var connection:mx.remoting.Connection [...]

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This is just a self reminder to learn how to use modules in flex. http://lab.orangeflash.eu/flex2/examples/modules/

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I’m sitting here tonight, and watching the sixth disc of Season One of the show “Lost”… it’s a great show… My friend is over here, and he’s the one that wanted me to watch lost, and so we’ve spent the weekend catching me up on Lost because he raves about how good it is… that [...]

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APPLICATION – SOURCE One of the points of debugging is to make your life easier… Have you ever tried to debug the dragOver event on any ListBase Component? It’s a little hard to do… simply because it fires whenever your dragging over anything… whether your just starting to drag, or your over the item you [...]

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Ever wonder how to find out your password after you’ve lost it? your going to need PHYSICAL access to the machine… so if your trying to break your servers at work, and you don’t have a key to the server room, your not gonna like this entry. loginrecover.com offers free password recovery… Recover password i’ve [...]

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Drawing a Rectangle in Flex APPLICATION – SOURCE In my last post I kind of talked about drawing a line in flex, (not just programmatically) but how to let the user draw the line… for example, in photoshop, you use the line tool to draw a straight line… Create a simple whiteboard type application with [...]

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this is a link for a bunch of flex explorer links… http://kanuwadhwa.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/flex-links/ http://www.franto.com/blog2/collected-links-to-actionscript-30-examples

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Draw a line in flex APPLICATION – SOURCE I was asked by a fellow coldfusion buddy if it was possible to take an image into flash, and be able to draw on it, i said absolutely… They basically have a stock chart that they want to draw straight lines on… I don’t know much about [...]

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