Tonight I built a component that I’m sure most of us have built a half-dozen times before – a text input that displays a prompt inside of the component when no text has been entered and the component is not focused. The difference this time is that I built it as a Flex 4 [...]
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Work-around for XMLDecoder Bug #SDK-17271
View Flex Bug #SDK-17271
After a whole bunch of digging around under the hood of the mx.rpc.XMLDecoder class, I finally pinpointed the line that is causing it to incorrectly decode elements that do not have sub-elements. Basically, when it gets to an element that it considers to have simple content (meaning just a string value between [...]
Repeater width? Really?
So, I came across a weird bug in a project that I’m working on where I’m getting a flicker when transitioning between children within a view stack. On each child in the stack I’ve specified a hide and show effect so that when I switch from one to the other, the existing view slides out [...]
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Creating programmatic skins (Part I)
During and after my Creating a Visual Experience with Flex 2 presentation with Juan Sanchez, I received a ton of great feedback and great questions. Several people expressed interest in learning more about programmatic skinning. So, my intention here is to create a small series of posts to dive deeper into that topic.
As a [...]
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Goodies from 360|Flex
Slide deck, before and after source code, and list of killer resources available here: http://www.andymcintosh.com/360Flex/.
Stay tuned. Per some of the post-session Q&A, I’m putting together a series of posts on programmatic skinning.
Thanks to all of those who attended and all the folks at EffectiveUI for their support.
Juan from ScaleNine and I are joining forces at 360Flex!
Before reading any further, if you’ve not seen scalenine.com, check it out. They’ve done some totally amazing stuff with graphical skinning over there. The themes are just plain awesome.
Juan Sanchez and I both signed up to speak at 360Flex on pretty similar topics. His, “How to Create a Theme” and mine, “Skinning and [...]
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-keep on rockin’
After months of trying to solve a single bug (on a personal project), the files generated by passing the -keep option to the mxmlc compiler provided invaluable insight. Apparently, ActionScript components that implement IUIComponent will be treated slightly differently during the MXML->AS conversion magic. Namely, bound properties will be set up at a [...]
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Persisting Workspace Preferences in Eclipse and Flex-Builder
Do you use multiple Eclipse/Flex-Builder workspaces? I generally use a different workspace for each project I’m working on just to keep things organized. I have the trunk of whatever the project is, some sandboxes, some examples, etc. It works really well, but it drives me nuts that every time I make a [...]
360 Flex
Don’t miss 360 Flex in Seattle (Aug 13-15). They’ve line up a very respectable slew of speakers to present on the hottest Flex topics around. They’ve posted a sneak preview of the sessions here. It looks like effectiveui will have quite a presence there. Check us out
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