Archive for ‘Flex’

Use AMF with JavaScript in Adobe AIR

I’ve been working with Adobe Flex since its beta and have been a long time believer in using Action Message Format (AMF) as the communication protocol. I’ve also been working with Adobe AIR since its beta, but had only used AMF with Flex-based AIR applications. Until now…

I was working on a JavaScript-based AIR application

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Dynamically resize nested Flex List with variableRowHeight

Another quick post…

I was stuck recently with a Flex component that had a List with an itemRenderer. The itemRenderer contained another List with an itemRenderer. Now the problem with this is that the data had unique counts and the lists had variable row heights (variableRowHeight = true). The result was that …

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Flex 3 AdvancedDataGrid Summary Divider

The AdvancedDataGrid (ADG) control in Adobe Flex 3 extends the capabilities of the standard DataGrid control to improve data visualization. You can:

  • Sort by multiple columns when you click in the column header
  • Use the styleFunction property to specify a function to apply styles to rows and columns of the control
  • Use an expandable navigation
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Flex Debugging Hack

A guy with call sign “Frode” on Flexcoders posted this trick on how to get the debugger to connect on an already running SWF.

> I’ve figured out a hack that sort-of gets me there – by configuring a
> debug profile in flex builder with “about:blank” as the launch URL, I
> can hit …

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Flash Player 10 for Flex

I was digging around the other day in Adobe’s Open Source area when I found the Flash Player 10 Beta with instructions on how to compile Flex applications to the new player. Check it!

There is also a tutorial by Lee Brimelow, Adobe Platform Evangelist, that covers how to get started using Flash Player …

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Finally! A Google Maps API for Flex

I once built a Flex application that did a cool mapping of an object in transit. (Due to NDA reasons, I can’t say much more than that.) So of course, I use the Yahoo! Maps API for ActionScript because… well it was the only API available for Flex development and I only had a couple …

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Set Cursor Focus in Flex

I have a pet peeve, although I’ll admit it’s one of many. The pet peeve is this. When starting a Flex application that requires authentication, I have to use tabbing or, heaven forbid, my mouse to set focus to the “user name” field on the login screen. Why!! We have been doing this for years

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FlexReport Release

It doesn”t matter where I go, I always run into people having printing issues with Flex. Most have found the FlexPrintJob class and samples on how to use it, but for those who print multiple pages the results are sometime less than stellar.

I just found a new open source project called FlexReport. It …

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Denver Flex Users Group

Our new site is RIA5280.org and is growing fast!

The Denver Adobe Flex UG has been meeting for a year and a half now with great success. We have had great topics, great speakers and great involvement from the community.

We”ve taken the next step in expanding our community by revamping the website. We are …

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Also released BlazeDS

In short, it”s the free version of LiveCycle Data Services that includes the Remoting and Messaging technology previously available only as part of LiveCycle Data Services. It will now be available for free as a new Open Source product called BlazeDS (under LGPL v3 license).
Get BlazeDS

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