Using baseColor to Style Components in Flex 4
February 10, 2010
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
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
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
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.
