One limitation of the Model tag is that if you supply one instance of a child tag in an <mx:Model> tag, there is no way for Flex to know if you intend it to be an array or a single …
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April 28, 2008 Tags: Adobe, development, Flex
Category: Flash Platform, Flex No Comments 
Adobe Flex is composed of two distinct pieces; a set of pre-built components known as the client-side framework, and a set of runtime services that allow Flex applications to integrate with back-end systems. The client-side framework is a series of …
Read more →April 28, 2008 Tags: development, Extending MXML, Flex
Category: Flex No Comments
There are many reasons why you might want to add components to containers dynamically. The most common reasons are for performance or flexibility. Either way, having a good understanding of how it works is essential.
First a little background information about what these methods are from
The addChild and addChildAt methods come from the DisplayObjectContainer …
April 28, 2007 Tags: Adobe, development, Flex
Category: Components, Flash Platform No Comments
You will find this on a couple blogs, but since I”ve given presentations on ColdFusion performance since the Allaire days, I thought I should share.
My friends at webapper discovered an issue with CFSWITCH under load where the expression was a string.
In my presentations, I often encouraged the use of CFSWITCH over using if/elseif …
Read more →April 28, 2007 Tags: admininstration, AIR, ColdFusion, development
Category: ColdFusion No Comments
In Flex, you use a validator to ensure the values in the fields of an object meet certain criteria. You can assign each field of an object to a single validator. I”ve used the mx.validators.Validator class, which is an ActionScript …
March 28, 2006 Tags: development, Flex, validation
Category: Flex 1 Comment
In Macromedia Flex 1.5, there is a bit of fun to be had with htmlText in the <mx:Text> component. I was recently building an application in which I was displaying some content from a datasource when, for the strangest reason, …
Read more →January 28, 2006 Tags: development, Flex
Category: Flex No Comments
