Tag Archives: Flex

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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Xdrive AS3 Library

By Mister | Published: June 17, 2008
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 [...]
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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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Building ASDocs and SWC with Flex Ant Tasks (flexTasks) for both Mac and PC

By Mister | Published: March 7, 2008
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 [...]
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