Category Archives: Component

Screen Capture with AIR 2 NativeProcess

By Mister | Published: May 24, 2010
Prior to AIR 2 the only way to capture the screen was to use something like Marapi Java Bridge that acts as a conduit between your application and the native system. However, AIR 2 now lets us call With AIR 2 Beta and the upcoming AIR 2 release, you can now use the command-line tool [...]
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Smooth Scrolling HorizontalList

By Mister | Published: March 3, 2009
This example is based on Alex Harui’s Smooth Scrolling List. It just changes the code to work with the HorizontalList control rather than the List control. The SmoothHorizontalScrollingList class extends the HorizontalList control adding the needed functionality to allow smooth scrolling:
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Flex :: ImageCache, a cheap way to cache images

By Mister | Published: January 29, 2009
In a previous post about Ely’s SuperImage, I mentioned that we decided to implement a simpler method for caching images within a Flex application. ImageCache is a simple class file that extends the Image control by adding the ability for the control to cache bitmap data. Unlike SuperImage, ImacheCache can handled SWF files, it just [...]
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Scrolling List Control with Tweener

By Mister | Published: January 25, 2009
I was on a simple little side task last week, to create a scrolling effect using the Flex control and also remove the default scroll bars. I didn’t want to do the usual trick, scrolling a HBox with items added to it using a repeater, or whatever. I wanted to animate the scrolling that occurs [...]
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SuperImage Redux

By Mister | Published: January 18, 2009
I have been meaning for so long to post this code. Some time ago I had the pleasure of working with John Yanarella from Universal Mind. John was helping my employer at the time to put together an application that allows users to upload, manage, and share media assets. We needed an efficient way to [...]
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Custom RichTextEditor

By Mister | Published: April 24, 2008
One of the longest running post on my blog has been about creating XHTML output from the Flex RichTextEditor control. I always thought it would would be nice if someone took all the comments and suggestions for that post and created a customized control that outputs proper XTHML. Well, Axel Jenson has created such a [...]
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Error #2025 – Clash between Flex 2 & Flash CS3

By Mister | Published: June 26, 2007
I got my new copy of Flash CS3 and proceeded to make a new preloader for my Flex application.  I made a document Class for my CS3 file and attached a CS3 ProgressBar component.  I had a public function in the Document Class for setting the progress of the Flex preloading.   I dropped the SWF file [...]
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Flex List Control with Editable InputText ItemRenderer

By Mister | Published: June 13, 2007
I think the title of this post says it all.   I needed a InputText for the label of images in my TitleList control.  I wanted users to click on the text and edit it in place.  I started out creating a simple ItemRenderer with a InputText and skinned the InputText to look like a regular [...]
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