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This is the weblog of Joseph Labrecque: Senior Multimedia Application Developer for the University of Denver and Owner of Fractured Vision Media, LLC. Joseph is an Adobe Higher Education Leader.
Tag Archives: Flex
Memory Leak in Flex SDK 4.1 Spark VideoDisplay
In working on a small utility application (Adobe AIR) this week, I came across a pretty major memory leak in the beta Open Source Media Framework based Spark components in Flex 4.1 final. The utility I am building grabs over … Continue reading
Quick Tip: Changing Spark DragScroll Parameters
Say you have a Spark List in your application with a TileLayout and drag options toggled on: 1 2 3 4 5 <s:List itemRenderer="ThumbRenderer" dragEnabled="true" dragMoveEnabled="true" dropEnabled="true"> <s:layout> <s:TileLayout id="GalleryLayout"/> </s:layout> </s:List> But when you drag item up the list, … Continue reading
Strange ActionScript dispatchEvent / addEventListener Gotcha
I came across a strange situation over the weekend where a custom event being broadcast through dispatchEvent() was not being caught by the registered listener object. To make things even more bizarre, hasEventListener() definitely showed the event as registered, and … Continue reading
Parsing Tweets with the TwitterString Class
While building a little Twitter aggregator for an upcoming conference, I found myself in need of a set of methods to create hyperlinks from three distinct elements that can be included within a tweet; links, usernames, and hashtags. I was … Continue reading
Skinning a Spark Button in Flex 4
The more I work with Flex 4, the more I understand why certain choices were made regarding the new component architecture, especially in regard to skinning. I stumbled, at first, as the skinning model is quite different and can appear … Continue reading
