This post posts a snippet of code of how to loop through an objects properties in order to get the key names. About six months ago we had some convoluted way of doing something on the backend (PHP), and in order to get something back I was give an single object with a ton of [...]

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This flex project will talk to salesforce, grab data, be able to save multiple records at the same time, edit and save single records at the same time, and will demonstrate some simple flex charting and data binding. This blog post got moved to adobe!!! boo yah!! John wrote up, and used screen shots, and [...]

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This post is directed at people that know the salesforce.com platform, I’m not trying to get away from flex, but this post was actually part of my last assignment at work, and its directed at salesforce developers that don’t know flex. This blog post has been moved to ADOBE! boo yah! John’s the one who [...]

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Use the UIComponent commitProperties() to do your dynamic interface work…

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This post discusses and includes a video of how to publish your .air files to your server with an ANT script via FTP. ANT is a xml scripting language that can be used for many things, but in our case it’s going to be application deployment. The Problem When you create an air app and [...]

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This post is a video showing how embedding fonts and images can have a drastic effect on compile times.  It goes on in the video to show a possible way to improve those compile times with runtime css. Here is the zip of the Project – SOURCE The Problem When you embed a lot of [...]

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Here is a link to my 360Flex preso. http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1733261879?bclid=1729365228&bctid=1738803895

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Application – Source  A friend asked me today how to create a simple slider component… I told him, the simplest way in flex, would probably be to have a MoveEffect that would just move a container. So basically you use masking to mask some stuff, then turn off horizontalScrollPolicy, and verticalScrollPolicy, and then you just set [...]

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Somebody dropped me a comment, and gave me a totally awesome link: http://birdeye.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ravis/RaVisExamples/example-binaries/RaVisExplorer.html This relates to all the following posts: Paint Canvas Application – Paint Canvas Source Drawing with the UIComponent in Flex (part 3) Application – Drawing with the UIComponent in Flex (part 3) Source   Making Flex look 3D Programmatic Visualization Drawing with [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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