Category Archives: Flex

HTTP Status 201 causing Flex #2032 Error in IE only

By Mister | Published: March 28, 2009
I ran into a problem right when we were going to launch a new Flex web-based application to production (of course) with Internet Explorer and Flex. I was calling an RESTful service that returns XML and using the built-in Flex HTTPService with either POST/GET as the method for the request. Most of the service calls [...]
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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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Adobe AIR Runtime Font Differences

By Mister | Published: February 6, 2009
This was a heck of a problem to discover and even worse to try to figure out why. Sadly, I did not find a good solution the problem. I will give the short and sweet rundown of the issue. You have three different machines, three different operating system, the same version of Flex Builder (3.0.2), [...]
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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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Having trouble getting a client to pay?

By Mister | Published: January 9, 2009
My good friend Dan Florio (Twitter friends actually) kicked off a discussion about what to do when a client doesn’t pay. He has some great tips and is also asking for some community input. I am sure there are plenty of bad experiences out there to go around, mine included. What would be great is [...]
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Flex 3, ColdFusion 8, and Error #1034

By Mister | Published: December 11, 2008
Working on project for a new client I had had the opportunity to use Flash Remoting from Flex to talk to services on a ColdFusion server without running the ColdFusion server locally on my machine. Since I am working remote these days (at home), I wanted to connect to the CFC’s on the ColdFusion server [...]
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Storing an ArrayCollection in the EncryptedLocalStore

By Mister | Published: December 5, 2008
On one of my side AIR projects I got the idea to store an ArrayCollection (AC) object into the EncryptedLocalStore (ELS) to have a sort of mini data structure. I thought it would be no problem since you can basically throw anything you want into the EncryptedLocalStore as long as its not over 10MB where [...]
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Drop your framework?

By Mister | Published: November 20, 2008
After attending an interesting session at Adobe MAX 2008 titled “The Flex Architecture Face-off”. At first I though the speakers (Yakov Fain, Chafic Kazoun, Todd Anderson, and Joshua Noble) were going to debate which framework was the best, you know, Cairngorm, PureMVC, Mate, and others. Initially the speaker surveyed which frameworks developers were using and [...]
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