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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 complicate it [...]

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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 such [...]

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Drawing in Flex using the UIComponent (part 3)
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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… [...]

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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 = mx.remoting.NetServices.createGatewayConnection(”http://#cgi.HTTP_HOST#/flashservices/gateway/”);
//declare [...]

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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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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 wish [...]

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Drawing a Rectangle in Flex

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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 [...]

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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
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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 charting or stock [...]

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I’m integrating Livecycle with coldfusion 8, this entry walks through all the steps and challenges.

First download LCDS Express (free for one cpu)
Video on LCDS ES
Learn how to integrate LCDS with coldfusion 8 - the instructions on this page are really confusing and they are a bitch… i woulda thought some kind of update would have [...]

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When making a live mock up for an application (with flex) you want to get it done as soon as possible, with the least amount of frustrations… but what do you do when it expands… do you either invest the time in re factoring the application to make it scalable, or you just do it [...]

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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 in [...]

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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 ran [...]

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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.
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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 short example on calling javascript from flex using ExternalInterface…
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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 play whatever is in [...]

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