Flex Archive
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Bizarre Label text behavior
Posted on December 7, 2011 | 4 CommentsUpdate: In the comments Jeff pointed out: When the strings are inside of the CDATA tags the mxml compiler treats them as raw text when generating actionscript to be compiled.... -
Detecting the End Of List ( EOL ) event
Posted on October 22, 2011 | No CommentsHere is one way to detect if a user has scrolled to the end of a <List>. <s:List id="myList" dataProvider="{ myAC }" itemRenderer="rend.someItemRend" width="100%" height="100%" creationComplete="onListCreationComplete()"> <s:layout> <s:VerticalLayout /> </s:layout>... -
Book review : Flash Facebook Cookbook
Posted on September 30, 2011 | 1 CommentIf you’re going to be doing any Flex/Facebook apps you should think about grabbing this book. I found the Facebook documentation to be rather discombobulated. It’s all there but it’s... -
Search Engine dedicated to Actionscript and Flex
Posted on February 8, 2011 | 6 CommentsNext time you’re searching for help on some problem you’re having with Actionscript/Flex – which if you’re like me is about every 15 minutes – then try using flex.paulsearch.co. It... -
Introduction to AMFPHP with Actionscript : Blogroll part 5
Posted on March 29, 2010 | No CommentsIn this episode I’ll add a feature to allow users to submit their own blog to the blogroll. Of course you wouldn’t want people just adding entries and them going... -
Introduction to AMFPHP with Actionscript : Blogroll part 4
Posted on March 29, 2010 | No CommentsUp till now we’ve been downloading the entire contents of the blogroll table. Now it’s time to add paging so that only a few entries are returned from the database... -
Introduction to AMFPHP with Actionscript : Blogroll part 3
Posted on March 29, 2010 | 1 CommentHere in part 3 of this series we’ll create a DataGroup to display the buttons inside an ItemRenderer. ( Video Tutorial Index page ) This won’t mean much to you... -
Introduction to AMFPHP with Actionscript : Blogroll part 2
Posted on March 29, 2010 | No CommentsIn the previous video tutorial in this series we managed to get as far as getting the data from the database to our application. Here we’ll collect the data and... -
Introduction to AMFPHP with Actionscript : Blogroll part 1
Posted on March 29, 2010 | 1 CommentThe application that we’ll create together here is very simple. However the tools that you’ll learn here can be used to create an app of incredible complexity. Here is a... -
What’s under Antarctica?
Posted on October 15, 2009 | 2 CommentsI always figured there was a land mass under all of Antarctica that, give or take, was well above sea level. Turns out that isn’t the case at all. Take...
