This post is an example of how to create custom style metadata and pass different values into your degrafa skin dynamically.
I would like to give a shout out to John Yanarella, he and I have been working on a project, and he wrote the skin, and then I adapted it to be able to pass [...]

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Application - Source
This post is to show how to use custom degrafa states in non button classes… say you want up, down, over states in a class… a button already does that for you, so in degrafa you just use the GraphicBorderSkin and create different states within it… very simple… and a lot of examples out [...]

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Application – Source
I tried to find all sorts of google searches on the headerRenderer for the Datagrid, and couldn’t find anything… so here is my two cents.
I was tasked with a simple datagrid header, one that didn’t have the default skin, but just had some link button type look to the headers…
You have to use [...]

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I have a project that needs 20 hours a week for the next 4 – 6 weeks.
I need someone advanced, and that lives in the US, and speaks fluent
english.  its all remote, and all sub contracting… I need someone
that can possibly work the weekends… (possibly, it all depends on if you can work during the [...]

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The lockedColumnCount in the datagrid is a tricky little flag you have to remember to do a couple things especially if you are using it inside a container:

horizontalScrollPolicy=’on’
verticalScrollPolicy=’on’
set the width to the parent components width (width=”{myParentContainer.width})
set lockedColumnCount=”3″

Application – Source

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This post is a quick example of how to show circular progress for something… This is my first venture with Degrafa and I would have to say after the first couple of hours or so it came to me fairly quickly, I’m pretty pleased with the support out there on it, and the examples are [...]

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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 properties [...]

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To the indian recruiters, I can’t understand you when you callll!!!!!!!!!! jeez!! some of the strongest accents I’ve ever heard! my god!

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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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Application – Source
We have a product right now that has a basic shopping cart in it… and one of the options is to save the cart and view it as a pdf… so we send the request to the server, and return a link back with a link to the pdf, and
because we may [...]

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

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This post is about how to help assist your TileList if you are using an image in the renderer and need to make trips to the server to get the image… this shows you how to get the image once, and store it, rather than the TileList redownloading the image a ton of times when you scroll.

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I currently have a small side project with SocialSecurityValidator, and we are stripping all of the dashes out of the format, and when we passed in just a number to the validator, it screamed bloody murder, because it couldnt use a string function charAt().
so I simply passed the number in with a .toString()
as
//mySSN is a [...]

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The easiest way I’ve came across to enforce uppercase is to use the restrict tag…
<mx:TextInput restrict=”[A-Z]” />
simple stuff.

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I am officially open for consulting, to anyone that reads this, I offer great services, and cheap rates….  please contact me via reply or jensen.axel@yahoo.com

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I installed service capture 2 today, and it made my google chrome not work, and Internet Explorer 7 as well…
I thought my internet was down, just by chance, so I reset my router, that didn’t do the trick so I restarted the computer… and figured something was just messed up… I didn’t put 2 and [...]

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This post is a video on Cairngorm with UM Extensions and cairngenum. It explains some of the subtle differences between cairngorm, and cairngormUM, and what the extensions allow you to do that cairngorm doesnt allow very easily. The Video is listed at the bottom of the post.

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This post has a video that explains how to you use ANT to email your source code and or swf (or .air) file to the client (if you need to). It even involves how to zip the project up using ANT as well.
To use email with ant you need the following 3 jar files [...]

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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 host it [...]

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