Category Archives: Flex
Secure login using the EncryptedLocalStore in Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR has a quick and safe way to store encrypted user data when building applications. Data such as login and password can be persisted in the application using the EncryptedLocalStore available for AIR applications. To demonstrate this, I wrote a quick demo application that will store username and password after users login. When the [...]
Xdrive AS3 Library
I have not posted in a long long while it seems. That would be nice if I were just hanging out on a beach some place. However, I have been busy doing lots of things for work and working on a new AS3 library. I have been developing for the past few months an AS3 [...]
Building ASDocs and SWC with Flex Ant Tasks (flexTasks) for both Mac and PC
I wanted to write a quick post because I am just exploring the ability to build ASDocs using ANT from within Flex Builder 3. Adobe Labs has a post about using Flex Ant Tasks to manage builds from Flex. With this tool you can compile Flex applications, modules, libraries, and HTML wrapper code, as well [...]
Omniture Tracking in Flash, Flex and AIR Applications
If you are developing Enterprise level applications chances are you are either used Omniture or you will be asked to integrate with Omniture tracking services. This post is not really about the specifics of Omniture tracking, but rather about the implementation methods for Flash, Flex, and AIR (with Flex). Usually, Omniture tracking events are sent [...]
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Get ready to breathe some AIR with Oxygen
Xdrive is coming out with a new desktop client called Oxygen that will manage their online storage service using Adobe AIR and Flex. Larry Drolet and I first discussed Oxygen at a recent FITC conference in Hollywood. Oxygen was first designed as a proof of concept application using Flex, AIR, and the Xdrive JSON API version 1.2. [...]
Issue with using SWF files within TileList control
I ran into a small annoyance using SWF files within the Flex TileList control. Using a SWF image in the itemRenderer seems to block the broadcasting a double-click ListEvent, however using a image format (JPG, PNG, GIF) works fine. To demonstrate the issue I created a very simple example: 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" [...]
Rotate using Flex BitmapData and Matrix
Recently, I found myself in need of an image rotation component in Flex so that the rotation takes place on the client and saves the image back to the server. The image source I use has a thumbnail 100×100 and the original image. I wanted to load just the thumbnail to perform the rotation and then once [...]
Tired of dreary Flex applications, take a look at Fill Colors
I ran into my good friend Nahuel Foronda at the Adobe Max 2007 conference, he handed me a little post card for his new endeavor called Fill Colors. A while a go I harped on the fact that so many Flex applications look like Flex applications. Fill Colors was inspired by the CSS Zen Garden, [...]
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