Tag Archives: Flex
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" [...]
FITC Hollywood 2007
I was asked to speak at this years FITC conference located at Universal Studios, Hollywood. I will be co-presenting with my co-worker Larry Drolet. Our presentation is called “Concepts on AIR”. We will demonstrated some basic AIR concepts such as system chrome, drag and drop, and system notification. We will also present some pretty cool [...]
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, [...]
Bubble ItemRenderer Events
Often times I find myself needing to bubble events from an itemRenderer to the parent control. This is especially important when using a CairngormEventDispatcher. Events should be used by the views, rather than having them nested within the itemRenderer. This is commandment #10 on Jesse Warden’s post 10 Tips For Working With Cairngorm (or the way Jesse [...]
Firefox, Flex URLRequest, and Sessions Issue
I ran into a very difficult issue trying to get upload files using FileReference and URLRequest. File upload was working fine in Internet Explorer, but nothing would work in Firefox. I tried tracing out the request using LiveHTTPHeaders for Firefox, but I couldn’t even see any of the request data. With some help from my co-worker [...]
Flex Youtube Grabber (Updated to Flex 4)
A have been checking out a recent application called Scrapblog and looking under the hood at how the put the application together. I know they use XML to markup the coordinates and properties of media elements on the page. What surprised me was that they take a Bitmap image of each slide and save that as [...]
Building Blogs with Flex
The race is on to build a blog using Flex. When Flex first hit the streets I immediately thought of making a WordPress theme built entirely in Flex that works with PHP (the WordPress backend). I never got around to creating this idea, but others have had the same notion to build a Flex-based blog. I have seen a few implementations of [...]
Omniture Tracking in Flash, Flex and AIR Applications