How to make a magnetic button in Flex 4
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How to make a magnetic button in Flex 4
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Author: Janez Feldin (3 Articles) - Author Website
Janez likes to experiment with flash in his own free time. His other hobbies are playing volleyball, listening to the music, watching movies and above all else, paragliding.
I have made a simple example on what most people refer to as magnetic (button) on the web. By extending the standard button you are able to do such a thing with Flex 4.
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Using ASDoc as an External Tool in Flash Builder 4
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Author: Arjan (34 Articles) - Author Website
Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
When developing Flex and AIR applications for clients / customers it’s always nice to deliver a structured structured Flash Builder project with well documented sources.
Similar to JavaDoc for Java, Actionscript has the opportunity to use a tool that generates HTML files in which you can navigate through all your project packages, ActionScript Classes and MXML files. ASDoc is essentially a command line tool, but you can configure Eclipse / Flash Builder in such a way that you can run ASDoc with a click of a button. This example show you how to do this.
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Flex Encryption (MD5, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, HMAC)
(preview)Flex Encryption (MD5, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, HMAC)
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Author: Janez Feldin (3 Articles) - Author Website
Janez likes to experiment with flash in his own free time. His other hobbies are playing volleyball, listening to the music, watching movies and above all else, paragliding.
After a question on our flex forum about MD5 encryption, I decided to write an example about all the encryption types available in Flex.
The SWIZ framework for Flex 3 / Flex 4: Easy, Light and Very Powerfull
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Author: Arjan (34 Articles) - Author Website
Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
I recently followed a course about using the SWIZ framework with Flex (3 in the course). What i’ve found out is that SWIZ a very powerfull framework with a lot of really nice features to help you with your flex development.
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Call Javascript function from Flex / Flash Builder (AS3)
(preview)Call Javascript function from Flex / Flash Builder (AS3)
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Author: Roelof (11 Articles) - Author Website
Roelof is a SAP Consultant specialized in Front-End development. In his spare free time he is either developing on the web, playing basketball, watching soccer, travelling or just being lazy. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
This are actually two examples in one. First I will show how to call a Javascript function from your Flex Application. The second example will be a direct execution of Javascript code from your AS3.
Calling Javascript can be done easily using the ExternalInterface class. I have used this in my Flex Comment Form to refresh the screen after the comment is placed.
Flex FlashVars in AS3 Example
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Flex FlashVars in AS3 Example
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Author: Roelof (11 Articles) - Author Website
Roelof is a SAP Consultant specialized in Front-End development. In his spare free time he is either developing on the web, playing basketball, watching soccer, travelling or just being lazy. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
While building my WordPress Flash Comment Form in Flex / ActionScript 3.0 over the weekend I needed to find out how to use FlashVars to pass data to my SWF file.
In this small example I will show you how to pass them and how to handle them in your Flex application. And ofcourse a small example application (with view source enabled).
Data Dependant Tree Icon with Tree in AdvancedDataGrid with iconFunction
(preview)Data Dependant Tree Icon with Tree in AdvancedDataGrid with iconFunction
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Author: Arjan (34 Articles) - Author Website
Arjan is a SAP Consultant specialized in ABAP and Front End development techniques like Web Dynpro, Adobe Interactive Forms, Flex and AIR. In his free time he likes to create examples for Flex-Blog and other applications using Flex, AIR and PHP. Other hobbies are movies and music. He is also the co-owner of Flex-Blog.com.
I’ve written a few posts about the AdvancedDataGrid, including one where you can show a Tree inside of it. I’ve never written a post about the iconFunction though, so I thought it would be a good idea to do that. This post described how you can use a Tree in an AdvancedDataGrid where the Tree Node icons are dependant of XML node name and other data in the XML element.
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