How to make a magnetic button in Flex 4
June 30, 2010
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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
June 22, 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.
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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Call Javascript function from Flex / Flash Builder (AS3)
May 7, 2010
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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
May 4, 2010
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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).
Flex 4 / Flash Builder 4: baseColor changed to chromeColor
April 13, 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.
While I was developing in the new Flash Builder 4 / Flex 4 environment yesterday, I tried to use the baseColor property on the s:Application tag to give it a default color, just like I explained in this example. I noticed however, that Flash Builder gave an error that it didn’t recognize the baseColor property…
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Using baseColor to Style Components in Flex 4
February 10, 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.
Flex 3 was a great product, but to be fair….changing default application appearance was a pain in the ass. I’m not a designer by any means so I was always a bit frustrated when I was trying to do something different with the appearance. Luckily for me and all you programmers out there…Flex 4 offers a nice little solution to change the defaults a bit by setting only one attribute on your application or your components: baseColor.
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Using States in Flash Builder
December 15, 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.
One powerful thing in Flex/Flash is the use of states. States can be used to control the behavior of your application based on the state that it’s in at the moment. Let’s say we want to have an display and edit mode in our application and we want to show something different in those modes / states. Let’s create a simple example that shows you how you can use states to achieve this.
TinyURL usage with Flash Builder
November 18, 2009
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Author: Theo (4 Articles) - Author Website
Theo is a SAP Integration Specialist by day and a Webdeveloper / Web App Evangelist by night. He is the creator of "I Am Bored So I blog" and he is a member of the Board of the Dutch Flex Usergroup. With his quote "Never Give Up, Never Surrender" (Actually stolen from Galaxy Quest) he fights his way through the day.
Always wanted to use flex or air to create your tinyUrl’s ?
You making an application which should create tinyurls ?
Well look no further. Here’s the code to create smaller urls using the tiny url api.
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Connect to Google Analytics from Flash Builder
November 11, 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.
Everybody that has a site somewhere sitting on the Web is probably interested in the number of visitors. There are a a lot of solutions available that can give you detailed statistics about your site. Google Analytics is one of them, and I think this is the one that’s mostly used right now. Google also has an API which you can use to get statistics, wouldn’t it be cool to have these statistics available to you in Flex? Ofcourse it’s possible, here how you do it using PHP and Flash Builder 4.
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