Monkey Patching FlexSprite to list all event listeners on any Flex component

02/21/2008 07:36 pm by Doug McCune in Flex

A while back Ben Clinkinbeard asked a question on flexcoders saying “Am I the only one who wishes EventDispatcher exposed its listeners?” The fundamental issue was that he wanted to get a list of all the event listeners that had been added to a given component. The approach: using FlexSprite Someone suggested monkey patching UIComponent to [...]

AdvancedDataGrid and Charting Samples

02/20/2008 05:42 pm by Kevin Hoyt in Flex

As I was preparing for the pre-release user group tour, I was surprised at just how much content around the new Flex 3 features was already available. The Flex engineering teams have been working diligently to be more transparent for the benefit of our customers - and it shows. The main problem I [...]

Signs that AS3 is maturing

02/20/2008 03:01 am by david zuckerman/adobe in flex/actionscript/mxml

Part of what I love about Java is the never-ending supply of libraries and tools available to the general development community. For Flex Builder, we leverage Eclipse (obviously), ANTLR, Lucene, JFlex and a number of other libraries with great success. Software engineers are lazy by nature (at least I am) and I know I don’t [...]

Fixing some common Flex Builder and Eclipse annoyances

02/15/2008 05:18 pm by Agit8 in Flex

I finally spent the time to correct my Eclipse workspace to fix certain “annoyances” related to using Flex Builder as an Eclipse plugin. I thought I’d share that to save some people the hassle. 1. “How can I make Flex/Eclipse always build the current project by default even when I am editing a source file? (and [...]

Flex 3 and AIR Pre-Release Tour Notes

02/14/2008 05:22 pm by Kevin Hoyt in Flex

We put the wraps on the Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 pre-release user group tour last week. I had the privilege of visiting eight different user groups over two weeks. There’s a lot of new stories to tell, not the least of which is the snow storm that slammed into Milwaukee, WI and [...]

A Single Link for MVCS Resources

02/14/2008 02:33 pm by joeberkovitz.com » Flex in Flex

A few folks have pointed out that it’s difficult to track down all the resources about my MVCS approach to building Flex applications. They were right, and in response I’ve consolidated everything into a single page accessible at this URL: http://www.joeberkovitz.com/mvcs. I’ve also included a few addenda to MVCS reflecting more recent thoughts and practices. [...]

StyleUtil.getDefaultStyleName()

02/14/2008 12:14 pm by Tink in Flex 2.0

When creating the default styles on a component you need to know the name of the class you are inside. The most common way of creating default styles is to use a static initializer. PLAIN TEXT Actionscript: package { import mx.core.UIComponent; import mx.styles.CSSStyleDeclaration; import mx.styles.StyleManager; public class [...]

Mobile: Flash Player 9 vs. Flash Lite 3

02/13/2008 08:10 am by Flex and Flash Developer - Jesse Warden dot Kizz-ohm in Flex

Peter Elst had a good post updating us on the ecosystem of Flash on Mobile. His point about Flash Lite 3 vs. Tamarin-Tracing got me thinking. As an American, I’m uber-confused on which VM to hedge my bets on. Do I continue writing components for Flash Lite in AS2 awaiting the day when I’ll actually [...]

From Tags to Riches: Going from Web 1.0 to Flex

02/11/2008 06:08 pm by James Ward - RIA Cowboy in Flex

An article titled “From Tags to Riches: Going from Web 1.0 to Flex” which I co-authored with Shashank Tiwari has been published on InfoQ. In the article, Shashank and I walk through the steps needed to port a traditional HTML-based application to Flex. We use the Java-based Pentaho BI Dashboard as our example [...]

Vote for my Flex bugs and I’ll vote for yours!

02/04/2008 06:00 pm by James Ward - RIA Cowboy in Flex

A little bug in the Flex Bug DB made it so you could only vote for open bugs - which is kinda silly since deferred bugs are marked as “closed”. Well that bug has been fixed and now it’s time for the Flex Bug Voting Exchange to commence! Here’s how it works - [...]

Breaking Out of the DateChooser

01/30/2008 04:22 pm by Kevin Hoyt in Flex

The Flex framework is amazingly capable. Between renderers, editors, skins, styles and containers, you can produce amazing applications. Sometimes however developers get stuck in the framework; they think they need to use the framework for everything. I used to see this a lot with list-based controls, but of late the target for getting stuck seems [...]

360Flex ATL, Here I Come!

01/30/2008 02:18 am by iamdeepa on flex in Flex 3

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Flex Tip 5: Using Runtime CSS

01/24/2008 07:02 pm by Adrian Aioanei in Flex

On large scale projects that will be deployed on more than just one location it is a constant need for re-skinning the application. This applies mostly to “embedding” projects, that is projects that will need to be integrated (embedded) into an already done site, with a custom template. First solution would be duplicate the project each [...]

Flex Tip 4: Export Release Build (Flex Builder 3)

01/23/2008 07:16 pm by Adrian Aioanei in Flex

If you are creating new project in Flex Builder 3 you will notice that there is no “bin” folder where the .swf, .html and .js files are stored. Instead you get a “bin-debug” folder with the files. This is because Flex Builder 3 threats the project by default as a debug one, running the .swf [...]

Too many TextFields and not enough beer makes FP9 crash

01/21/2008 11:54 pm by joeberkovitz.com » Flex in Flex

I’m working on an interesting and involved project (that I can’t say very much about right now), and it uses a ton of dynamic TextField objects on the screen. I thought things were going superbly, but my app started to crash the player at odd times as the display became more complex. I wanted [...]

Mint Chooses Flex

01/21/2008 06:33 pm by James Ward - RIA Cowboy in Flex

One of the first Flex applications I built was a Flex front-end for a web based personal budgeting application called “WeBudget”. I had originally built WeBudget as a way to track how much my wife was spending on clothing. The only problem was that this required my wife to actually enter her receipts [...]

InfoQ On Flex Frameworks

01/17/2008 12:15 am by Ben Forta's Blog in Flex

InfoQ has published a roundup of Flex framework projects.

Speech recognition with Flash… Can it be done?

01/16/2008 07:53 pm by Visualrinse | Design and Development by Chad Udell in Flex

Hmmm. I have a project percolating, but I’m not quite sure where to go with this one… Has anyone seen examples of a non-telephony driven speech recognition based interface for a flash platform application… any ideas from other developers where to start? I saw the Microsoft speech server page, but I’m not sure if that [...]

Thinking Declaratively with MXML

01/15/2008 04:15 pm by Kevin Hoyt in Flex

There’s no mistaking that Flex 2 has been a historic release in the evolution of the framework. With Flex 3 closing in fast, there’s even more great features we can now use in our applications. Sometimes however, it is important to go back a remember some of the smaller features we may be overlooking. On [...]

Ethan Eismann has a posse blog

01/11/2008 02:14 am by much ado about something in Flex

A new face in the Flex blogosphere: Ethan Eismann. Ethan is on the Experience Design (XD) team at Adobe, working on the design of Thermo, and I’m sure he’ll have all sorts of interesting thoughts on design. Welcome Ethan!

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