You might be surprised to know that Flex can create a JavaScript function and call it on the fly. For example, here is a snippet of ActionScript that shows how to obtain the URL of the page that invoked a...
Adobe has a terrific offer for unemployed programmers and students: a free, fully enabled copy of Flex Builder 3! See for yourself at https://freeriatools.adobe.comThe criteria for unemployed programmers is:To receive the product under this program, you must attest to the...
FlexMDI is an excellent floating panel implementation.If you have tried other floating panel implementations then you know they leave much to be desired. DragPanel is awkward to work with, and does not provide much functionality. SuperPanel is very slow and...
I previously blogged about the importance of coding standards, and offered my opinions on what beautiful code looks like. Regardless of whether you accept my code formatting conventions for yourself or not, there is an excellent Eclipse plug-in that can...
As I have previously reported, lots of Java programmers are adopting Flex. One question that Java programmers always ask is "where are my beloved collections classes?" First, the good news: this blog will point you to some excellent collection classes,...
There are hardly any code example for how to use renderers for AdvancedDataGrid, and those that do exist are trivial. Apparently AdvancedDataGrid has issues, according to none other than the illustrious Doug McCune: As a very general word of...
Google recently published a sample Flex application that demonstrated the Google Maps Flash API. Andrew Trice reported on the API last May. You can try the new demonstration application here. The application is pretty cool, but lacks some important features...
The entire family of Adobe Acrobat 9 products feature a Flash runtime, and Flex applications can now be embedded in a PDF. You can embed an XML document into a PDF, include a Flex application that reads the XML data,...
Now that Adobe has announced that it will publish the RTMP specification for rich media streaming, how long before the various Flex Data Services open source projects like BlazeDS, GraniteDS and Pimento support RTMP channels? _______________________________ Mike Slinn Independent full-service...
I needed to estimate the effort required to port a Spring Rich Client application to AIR. Spring RCP applications are actually Java Swing applications. The project had 93 Java files, consisting of 118 Java classes and 16,950 total lines of...
If you have had an opportunity to look at the Adobe Flash Collaboration Service (AFCS) you could see that there is a huge opportunity to do interesting multi-user applications without needing to write all of the server side code. However... Continue Reading
Overview Purpose of this article The goal of this article is to help you gain a better understanding of the Decorator design pattern. The Decorator pattern is used to attach additional responsibilities to an object at run time dynamically. Decorators... Continue Reading
The proliferation of cellular phones has revolutionized the way we communicate with one another and is the foundation for a more mobile lifestyle. Adobe, a long time player in rich internet applications, wanted to, once again, be an active participant.... Continue Reading
Adobe just released public information about AIR 2.0 and added new capabilities that better tie with the operation systems which gives your application more control while increasing performance. The new version will be deployed on Flash player 10 using Flex... Continue Reading
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