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How To Install Subclipse on Flex Builder 3 2008-04-30 15:34:36 For big projects that involves more people a version control software is a must. There are many but from the two most used, which are CVS (Concurrent Versions System) and SVN (Subversion), I'll explain how to install Subclipse on Flex Builder
3 - Subclipse is a plug-in providing support for Subversion within the Eclipse IDE [...]
ComboBox With Tooltip 2008-05-07 08:15:42 If you use Combo boxes to display options in some cases you may want to display options that are containing more than a few words. Maybe you want to know how a user arrived on your flex application and you want him to select from some complex options, but in the same time you don't [...]
AS3 Memory Monitoring/Usage 2008-05-06 07:06:26 You can monitor your memory usage/leaking with System.totalMemory
property. This way you can see how memory is used, where leaks are and you can optimize those parts that are eating too much memory.
In simple words use System.totalMemory as bellow (in KB):
var memoryUsedInKb:Number= Number(System.totalMemory/1024).toFixed(2);
I used it to show the used memory in different units: bytes, Kilobytes, [...] Read more:Usage
HTML Tags And Attributes Supported by Flash Player 2008-05-08 09:23:21 Bellow you can find a list tags and their attributes that are supported by flash player (and also by flex framework). This list applies to TextArea, TextFields and other controls that are html enabled.
Anchor tag (<a>)
Creates a hypertext link.
href
target
Bold tag (<b>)
Renders text as bold.
Break tag (<br>)
Creates a line break in the text field.
Font tag (<font>)
Specifies [...] Read more:Attributes
, Flash
, Flash Player
AIR applications File and Directory 2008-05-08 02:12:39 In the past days I had to write a small app in AIR and one of the problems I came across was the saving of preferences locally. I needed to be able to read/write a file on the local file system. After some digging I found the answer and decided to make a small tutorial [...] Read more:Directory
Using Shared Objects: Login Process with Remember Password 2008-05-09 09:38:41 In this post we will implement a login process with remember password functionality. In AS3 and also in AS2 we can use a SharedObject to store data on the users browser. Shared objects are similar to the all known browser cookies but are managed by the flash player. Shared objects can store data also remotely [...] Read more:Login
, Process
, Remember
, Password
Flash Player 10 (codename ASTRO) prerelease ready for download 2008-05-16 05:36:50 Adobe Flash
Player 10 (codename
"Astro") can be downloaded from Adobe site following this link:
New features:
Hardware acceleration - flash player will use the GPU for some visual processing tasks
Advanced Text Layout - a new engine for text layout (as you may know the old TextField has big problems when rendering text, htmlText and images) [...] Read more:ready
, Flash Player
Contributing to Flex 3 Cookbook 2008-05-13 07:21:48 Although is just one receipt I'm glad that my post was selected to be part of Flex 3 Cookbook
. The original post can be found on Flex Cookbook Beta site by the name "Using More Themes in the same Application".
The book release is in May but till now (13th of May 2008) it is still [...]
How To Build a Download Application in Flex 2008-05-12 07:41:40 In this article I'll show the same application I presented at FlexCamp Bucharest Romania 2008 - the video from the conference is available here and although it is in Romanian it might be useful. In the presentation I'm showing the power of Flex: doing complex applications with a few lines of codding.
With this article [...] Read more:Build
, Download
, Application
Override classes from included libraries 2008-05-11 02:59:37 During last week I had to do a small application for AIR. That was until friday when I had to release it and found out that the app had to work also in normal browser. Since almost all the code was independent of the type of app (AIR/Flex) my task was pretty easy:
Get all existing [...]
How To Install Flash Player 10 (Astro) And Still Debug 2008-05-20 11:06:52 Today I installed Astro
! What I did to be able to still develop and debug flash player 9 applications? I installed the Flash
Player 10 just for Firefox and for debug I'm using IE. You can inverse it and install the ActiveX for IE and keep Firefox with the flash player 9.
The links to [...] Read more:Debug
Resizable Canvas - …both directions 2008-05-19 09:01:19 In the previous articles in this series I explained how to create a horizontally and vertically resizable canvas. In this third article we will add the possibility to resize in both direction by dragging the right bottom corner.
What we will do:
add the new UI control (the right bottom button)
create the necessary events for it
create CSS [...] Read more:Canvas
How To Build Flash Player 10 Applications using Flex SDK 2008-05-21 11:14:41 As we promised we are back with a tutorial on how to build Flex applications for Astro flash player. This will be a step by step tutorial which is intended to help you install the last Flex SDK from daily builds. So let's start...
1) Get the Flex SDK Daily build.
2) Create a new folder: "3.0.1.1739".
3) [...] Read more:Build
, Flash
, Applications
Image Gallery Component - ImageRail 2008-05-29 04:00:06 In this article I'll present a new component I built: Image
Rail. This MXML component will display a series of thumbnails having the possibility to scroll them horizontally.
Parameters:
paths: an array containing URLs to images
images: an array containing image objects
imagesToShow: an unsigned integer that specifies the number of images displayed at a time - deafult is [...] Read more:Gallery
, Component
Adobe Flash zero-day exploit in the wild 2008-05-28 03:31:49 A very recent news on Zdnet announced that there is an very serious exploit
that AdobeFlash
Players 9.0.115.0 and 9.0.124.0 are vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.
The link to the whole story is here. Read more:Adobe Flash
How To Add an Event To a Custom MXML Component using Event Meta Tag 2008-05-30 07:11:53 Using events is fun in MXML components is fun and easily you can specify events using Event meta tag inside the component like this:
<mx:Metadata>
[Event(name="myevent", type="com.MyEvent")]
</mx:Metadata>
The following lines defines the myevent attribute of the component like this:
<com:FramedImage x="10" y="10" myevent="handleMyEvent(event)" ... / Read more:Component
0 Day Expoit in Flash Player.. Not so real 2008-05-31 09:48:08 In a previous article in this series I told you about a reported exploit for Adobe Flash
Player. It seems that the security bulletin that this exploit was based upon was released before the version 9.0.124.0 of the Player. Reading the latest security bulletin Adobe informs us that the exploit is not applicable to this [...] Read more:Flash Player
Sorting in DataGrid Using an Arbitrary/External Column 2008-06-03 10:05:32 What I mean in the title is this: having a data grid with a column containing some priorities (like: urgent, normal, high) among other columns, you want to sort by this priority column, but you notice that is not sorted by its importance but alphabetically. To make it crystal clear follow the example bellow…
Having the [...] Read more:Sorting
, External
, Column
ImageRail - Adding Click Event, Styles And HandCursor 2008-06-05 08:57:31 Some time ago, in a previous article I presented you ImageRail component that displays some thumbnails with possibility to scroll to left or right. Now we will add some new features that were missing.
Click
Event - imageClick
Styles
- imageBackgroundAlpha
HandCursor
Click event will be triggered when there is a click on an image, more precisely, on the [...]
How To Set Focus on UIComponent 2008-06-06 08:54:40 That is a verry small isue, but some times we really need a fast answer.
I try to use setFocus
method for diffrent UIComponents, for most of them it’s ok, but for a button for example you can’t see focus border using only setFocus method, so the solutions is to use also drawFocus method.
drawFocus method is [...]
How To Make an Image With Border 2008-06-10 04:59:59 How to put border around an image? How to do that when you set only maxWidth and maxHeight? This is not an easy task. Googleing about my issue I found this, on Adobe’s LiveDocs (you must go at the end where comments are): a couple of helpful comments where Justin.Buser is, literally, drawing a rectangle [...] Read more:Image
, Border
Continuing Image With Border 2008-06-12 04:42:13 In the last article I explained how to create an image surrounded by border. That article is a start for fixing the issue: “image doesn’t have border style”.
Now I extended even more the new ImageBorder
component to be able to center it horizontally and vertically and still be well displayed.
Modifications were made in updateDisplayList method [...]
How To Use FIVe3D In Flex 2008-06-17 08:18:03 For some time I’ve been planning to use FIVe3D of Mathieu Badimon, in Flex, not in Flash. I’ve been trying to make it work but no success ’till now.
After more than 4, 5 tries, I’ve managed to take the example from the FIVe3D framework and implemented it in Flex. It was not an easy task [...]
How To Use FIVe3D And Tweening in Flex 2008-06-19 05:50:46 In a previous article I explained how to use FIVe3D with Flex and because fl.motion is not included into the Flex Framework we had to find out a workaround. I commented out the lines that referenced fl.motion but Kelvin Luck found another way: “copy the classes from Flash CS3 Actionscript framework into the project”. So [...]
How To Add New Rows To DataGrid And Scroll To Last Added Row 2008-06-18 05:50:45 This will be a simple solution to be able to scroll to the last added row in a data grid. First of all I’ll explain what I mean and what I encountered when I needed to implement it.
The expected behavior is after adding a new row into a data grid, it should scroll to [...] Read more:Scroll
ROXIK Sharikura 3D Library 2008-06-27 07:00:32 Today I found a new 3D engine: AS3 ROXIK Sharikura 3D Library
. It is great from what I could see from their demos. Interesting is this demo where you can add more and more object to the animation but the animation is not jerky.
The library at this moment is not released but Masayuki Kido [...]
Job Posting 2008-06-26 04:17:21 Today I found out about a interesting job opportunity in flex.
Location is Bucharest, Romania.
Starting Part-time and moving towards full-time.
If anyone is interested please send a resume to qbic@qbic.ro Read more:Posting
Dump Debug Method (Like var_dump Function in PHP) and Debug Class 2008-06-25 06:59:43 Although Flex Builder and Eclipse do have nice debug utilities built in, today I needed a function/method in Actionscript to display into the current application some variables’ content. So I started to implement a var_dump alike function (var_dump from PHP language).
So I started and I made the Debug
class that will implement the static dump [...]
Flash Player 10 Beta 2 Released 2008-07-04 07:24:18 Astro is getting closer to a release. A new beta version is out and you can read the announcement on Adobe’s site: Please read also the release notes here:
What is new? To be short…
Fullscreen Keyboard Access - now you can catch key events for non-printing keys (arrows, shift, enter, tab, space, etc)
Enhanced Audio [...] Read more:Flash
, Flash Player
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