Thermo is Half the Story

07/04/2008 08:18 pm by ScaleNine Blog in flex 4

Everyone is getting excited as more details come out about Thermo. I’m sure the number of email requests to get on the “super pre-alpha” have flooded Adobe inboxes. The reason is that Thermo is looking to solve a huge gap in designer/developer workflow. This gap exists across pretty much every development workflow in various shapes [...]

TR Coffey speaking on skinning, styling at Boston FUG

07/03/2008 08:34 pm by joeberkovitz.com » Flex in Flex

This is just to give a quick heads up to my local readership: TR Coffey of Allurent will be speaking at this month’s Boston Flex User Group meeting on Tuesday July 8th at Adobe’s Newton office. TR is a really smart designer and information architect, one of the best people I ever worked with, [...]

Enhanced search string ComboBox

07/03/2008 04:28 pm by Flex RIA United in Flex Example

The standard behaviour of the Flex framework combobox, is to adjust its selected option as the user types in characters. However values are looked up only by the first character, i.e. user types in ‘a’ and the first option starting with ‘a’ is selected. He then types ‘b’ and the first option starting with ‘b’ is selected. Now this [...]

The illusive itemRenderer

07/02/2008 04:30 pm by Flex RIA United in Flex Example

The item renderer is a powerful concept in Flex, that enables custom implementations of data presentation and input within controls like Lists, DataGrids and Charts. In our last post, we saw how a custom item renderer can be used within a bubble chart to enable interactivity. We showcased that using a chart with one [...]

Flex Applications that Warn on Close

07/02/2008 02:29 pm by EverythingFlex in Flex 3 (Moxie)

Occasionally, there are times when you need to give the user the heads up that closing the application could cause issues as there are processes currently running. This example shows an easy way to do this via the FABridge. Click the link below to run the sample. Warn On Close So, how does it work? Here are the [...]

Flex 4 Codename Gumbo Under Development

07/02/2008 10:02 am in Flex news

The Flex 3 is already released but the guys at Adobe don’t waste their time. They already started to work on Flex 4 - codename Gumbo. The final release is planned for 2009 and the first beta for late 2008. The promises are: easy skinning improved states, effects and layout backward compatibility inline states For more see these links: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+4 http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Enhanced+States+Syntax

Help Fix Flex 3 Bugs And We'll Buy You Books

07/01/2008 11:23 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in Flex

The Flex SDK is open source, and the community is encouraged to submit code and fix bugs. And as an extra incentive to contribute bug fixes, the Flex SDK team is offering to buy books from your Amazon.com wish list, a book for each 3 bugs fixed. Details posted online.

New algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash and Flex (SWF) by Google search engine

07/01/2008 10:23 am by Marco Casario | RIAvolutionize the web in Flex

I just wanted to pass the news I've just read from the Google Official Blog: Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we've improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology.

James Ward And James Governor To Present Enterprise Flex In London

06/29/2008 04:40 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in Flex

RedMonk's James Governor has announced that he's tag-teaming with our own James Ward to present a "SAP Enterprisey Nanoconference" at Adobe's London office on July 11th.

Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0806d

06/28/2008 03:35 pm by Flex RIA United in Flex Programming Tips

Skin Flex with Flex 3 and CS3 - The reason you are doing Flex is not because you can’t resist the appealing of ActionScript, over Java, C# and all sorts of languages, or even Flex Builder. It’s because Flex offers you the sky as the limit to express your creativity. If you are a visual [...]

Some flexcoders stats

06/28/2008 03:11 am by Doug McCune in flexcoders

I’ve recently compiled a fairly complete database of all the messages ever sent to the flexcoders mailing list. I’ll be posting the sqlite database file that you can load into your own AIR applications to start playing with this data. But before anything else I thought I’d post a few fun tidbits: Top 10 Posters Poster # Messages # [...]

Building interactivity into Flex charts

06/26/2008 06:40 pm by Flex RIA United in Flex Programming Tips

Charts are mostly thought as a way to present information. In some cases though charts can provide a good means for the user to enter or rather alter data, while still graphically viewing the result of his interaction. We’ll showcase this using a bubblechart in combination with a simple function producing data correlation as follows: Radius = [...]

Ottawa Flex Camp (Thursday, August 21st, 2008)

06/24/2008 09:01 pm by Dylan DePass in Flex

The Adobe Flex team invites you to join us at Flex Camp Ottawa, a free one night gathering with food, drinks, and coding covering everything you need to know about Flex 3 and Adobe AIR. Agenda If you’re at the beginner level, we suggest arriving at 4:30 because there will be a “Flex 101″ session for your [...]

Flex Gigs Job Site Launched

06/22/2008 10:03 pm by Ben Forta's Blog in Flex

Jeff Graham e-mailed me tell me about the launch of Flex Gigs, a site for Flex job listings. Just two listing there for now, but hopefully that number will grow significantly.

Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0806c

06/21/2008 05:17 pm by Flex RIA United in Flex Programming Tips

Support Binary with HTTPService - Nobody can argue that HTTP is the most simple and reliable way of doing client server communication these days. That’s why extending it a bit further to support binary in Flex makes good sense. Make Flex Looks 3D - From time to time you want to produce a WOW with your [...]

Tutorials | Creating Flex Dashboards

06/20/2008 02:30 am by Flash Enabled Blog in Flex

Dashboards are an easy way to let someone get clear picture on data, as also a great tool to compare different factors. With Flex you are able to create different kind of dashboards. The following tutorials will teach how to do it: In this tutorial, the Nitobi Grid, an Ajax component, is used to build an [...]

I broke the build, I broke my face.

06/20/2008 02:23 am by iamdeepa on flex in Flex 3

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Flex and Five3D

06/18/2008 02:16 pm in Flex

Flex 3 HistoryManager Exploit?

06/18/2008 01:44 pm by EverythingFlex in Flex

I was just reading this article this morning about an exploit in the historyFrame.html file of the Flex 3.01 SDK. The article states that Flex 3.01 SDK contains this vulnerability and that the issue was fixed with the Flex 3.02 build. I downloaded build 3.0.2.2095 dated June 17, 2008 and compared the historyFrame.html and history.js files [...]

Flex Programming Tips of the Week 0806B

06/18/2008 12:44 am by Flex RIA United in Flex Programming Tips

Flex Framework Source in the Debugger - Java developers had been enjoying the Java SDK level of debugging for a long time. This step by step instruction tells how to do the core source debugging with Flex SDK source. The more you do Flex, the better chance you will need this. Drawing in Flex with UIComponent [...]

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