http://www.axelscript.com Axel Jensen on Flex, Coldfusion and... other stuff Fri, 16 May 2008 19:25:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/05/14/to-make-scalable-applications-or-not/ 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 ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/04/30/limiting-character-ranges-for-embedded-fonts/ 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 ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/04/30/360flex-san-jose-project-workflow/ 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 ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/04/26/links-are-temporarily-broken/ 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 ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/04/14/how-to-use-reserved-keywords-in-e4x-with-flex/ 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 ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/04/09/drawing-with-the-uicomponent-4/ 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. http://www.axelscript.com/2008/04/04/as3-3d-physics-engine/ 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. http://www.axelscript.com/2008/04/03/using-externalinterface-to-call-javascript-from-flex/ 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 ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/04/02/open-source-flex-xml-mp3-player-xspf/ 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 ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/04/02/introducing-acjeditor-its-a-rte/ 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. ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/03/28/customizing-a-popup-effect-in-flex/ Just noting for myself on how to update tables from other tables... Say you have a table called "customers" and you have a customerID as the primary key... you now have a cross reference table that joins customers to certain products, it's only a 1 to 1 relationship in our situation (not ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/03/28/sql-update-tip/ This is just a self reminder, a quick video i found online of creating rounded type glossy buttons in photoshop... it's fairly short and quite helpful to a novice. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO Photorealism with Bert Monroy: Volume 1 with: Bert Monroy is good on lynda.com (self reminder) http://www.axelscript.com/2008/03/28/photoshop-tip/ 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 ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/03/26/creating-a-dragimage-from-your-uicomponent/ 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 ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/03/24/customrichtexteditor-with-xhtml-text/ 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 ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/03/20/using-flex-3-filtering-data-and-new-tilelist-itemschangeeffect/ Air developer connection link.... http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&loc=en_us&extid=1427019 Awesome air app that has tons of community components listed, with example showings... it's pretty awesome! http://www.axelscript.com/2008/03/19/air-developer-connection/ Our power went out last night, and when I left work yesterday, I wanted to comeback later, and continue working, so I left some code up with flex builder open, and when the power went out, my computer rebooted... No huge surprise so far... but when I started flex builder back ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/03/11/flex-builder-tip-my-navigator-wont-show-up-i-have-an-error/   Using the Tree with Drag and Drop Functionality APPLICATION - SOURCE Here are some of the things I'm going to run through: 1. A brief description of what the data scriptor is, and how you might use it 2. Walking the Tree 3. LiveDocs DefaultDataDescriptor Documentation 4. Why you would use xml, what you ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/03/11/using-a-tree-with-drag-and-drop-from-a-grid/ I found this entry and found it useful.... http://www.broobles.com/blog/posts/36 Everything below is a direct copy and paste of the link above... but I don't want to take the risk, should that link ever go down... In Windows Explorer: Right click on the folder and click Search.. Enter .svn as the filename to search for. Click “More ... http://www.axelscript.com/2008/03/11/delete-all-svn-files-in-windows/