SWIZ Framework in Flex 4 Example: Part I
August 6, 2010
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Author: Arjan (36 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.
A few weeks ago I posted about the SWIZ Framework. The post was useless, but I was so enthusiastic about SWIZ, that I had to post something at that time. This post will be more usefull, I promise. Lets see how we can get the SWIZ Framework working in combination with the Flex 4 SDK.
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Dynamic AdvancedDataGridColumn in Flex 4
August 4, 2010
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Author: Arjan (36 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.
This little example shows you how you can add an AdvancedDataGrid column to your AdvancedDataGrid dynamically.
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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 (36 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: Repeater changed to DataGroup
April 14, 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.
I guess it is well known information already, but since I’ve been only playing around with the new Flash Builder 4 environment for a while I still wanted to post something about the this subject. The Repeater, not just a regular pain in the ass. Flex 4 brings us the DataGroup.
Flex 4 / Flash Builder 4: baseColor changed to chromeColor
April 13, 2010
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Author: Arjan (36 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 (36 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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