List Directory with AIR in Flex 4
February 2, 2010
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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.
As you probably know already, with AIR you have access to the local file system. The following example shows you how you can list the contents of a directory with AIR in Flex 4. Besides showing filenames, I also want to display the icon associated with the file.
Save Data to File System with AIR in Flex 4
January 31, 2010
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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.
If you know Flex, you’re probably fimiliar with AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) as well. When developing AIR applications, you will get your hands on some additional functionality that can be very useful. One of which is the ability to read / write files from the file system. Combining this functionality with serialization gives you the opportunity to store data without creating databases, SQL statements etc. Check the example.
Using the ProgressBar with a file download in Flex
February 13, 2009
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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.
So sometimes you’ll have time consuming procedures in your Flex application. Flex provides a nice moving clock thingy to let the user know that it’s doing something, but it doesn’t give the user any information about the progress.
Fortunately, Adobe provided the ProgressBar with Flex. To see how you can use the progressbar in combination with a file download from the server, see the following example.
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