I’ve never found the need to have HTML links in Flex behave (and look) like their true HTML counterparts, but a student recently asked how she could get HTML links defined in a Text control to behave like regular HTML links. After digging around, I found a lot of references to this problem but the […]
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I’m taking a moment to highlight the Visual Media Center at the University of Denver and the relatively new weblog maintained by its Director, Leslie Trumble. The VMC works very closely with those of us on the DU VAGA development team and most of the feedback we receive about the application originates with users from
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A lot of desktop apps have a splash screen that brands the application while it is loading or performing other processes in the background. Adobe AIR does not have a direct mechanism for this- but the feature can be easily achieved with some nice windowing action. There are a number of steps to take when
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I have this problem with Flex Builder 3. If I have “Build Automatically” checked under “Project”, my workspace gets stuck in this “Building Workspace” limbo and can never launch any projects for testing unless I toggle this setting back off. I’ve had the feature disabled for a few months now, but with the release of
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This one threw me for a loop. So I’ve been using the flash.display.NativeWindow class to create new windows in AIR (via Flex) since the beta releases. Historically, this has been a pain when you want to add MXML components to the native window as addChild() does not work with the NativeWindow class unless that child
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I’m used to setting the ObjectEncoding to AMF0 when working with Flash Media Server 2, but haven’t realized till now that I also am required to do this when communicating with Coldfusion 8 through remoting: import flash.net.NetConnection; import flash.net.ObjectEncoding; NetConnection.defaultObjectEncoding = flash.net.ObjectEncoding.AMF0; The error “Unknown object type tag (17)” was being generated by CF8 as
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I’m using AIR integration with Flex Builder 3 to contain and package an AS2 SWF which was originally using Screenweaver for deployment to a standalone app. The problem I’ve noticed is that I have two areas into which each are being drawn from another MC using BitmapData.draw() which work just great in Flash CS3 when
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So, to delay my unavoidable participation in the initial “Flex/AIR/Flash” waterfall effect, I’ve waited till now to post anything about the massive new beta releases that have been available since last evening. Flex Builder 3: LOVE the new CSS design view. LOVE IT! I’m sure there are plenty more features of direct interest as well,
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I’ve been aware of scalenine for some time now but haven’t had the chance to really look into the resources provided there until recently. I’m absolutely thrilled to be able to download these themes, pull them apart, and learn from example how to go about authoring a total customization of the Flex interface elements. Customization
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I’ll be at ApolloRanch in Boulder this coming Saturday evening. The event is scheduled to begin at 5 o’clock and run just shy of midnight. Sounds like they have a full and engaging schedule lined up with a lot of opportunities to both interface with other developers and learn a lot of useful stuff at
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Adobe annouced today that Flex is going open source! Adobe is announcing plans to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). This includes not only the source to the ActionScript components from the Flex SDK, which have been available in source code form with the SDK since Flex 2 was released, but also
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