Category Archives: Flex Note

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  Flash Builder 4 releases

  Posted on March 22, 2010 by Way in Blog, Flash, Flex, Flex Note

  You can buy the Flash Builder from adobe.com now or you can get a trail for 1 month. http://www.adobe.com/products/flashbuilder/ If you may also get a free license for Flash Builder 4 Standard version if you are qualified. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/free/index.html

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  Designer Effects for Flex

  Posted on January 15, 2010 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  Efflex is a good site providing a number of custom effects for Flex. http://www.efflex.org/orgefflexmxviewstackeffects/ Here is the Effect Explorer by Efflex. You can preview all the effects and try to customize the effect options. http://www.efflex.org/EfflexExplorer.html

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  Flash / Flex application: Can’t type chinese character

  Posted on August 3, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  If you have added parameter “wmode” (e.g. opaque, transparent) into the flash application object tag in the HTML. You may not able to type non-English character into the text input of the flex application by using non-IE browsers. <object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ id=”flashapp” width=”100%” height=”500″ codebase=”http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab”> <param name=”movie” value=”teacher.swf” /> <param name=”quality” value=”high” /> <param name=”bgcolor” value=”#869ca7″ [...]

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  Using hand cursor in Flex Text control

  Posted on July 16, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  By default, the flex application can show hand cursor when rollover by enabling useHandCursor and buttonMode properties. However, in Text control, the cursor will not change to hand even you set the selectable = false. The tricky thing is that we have to set its mouseChildren to false also. <mx:Text useHandCursor=”true” buttonMode=”true” mouseChildren=”false” /> mouseChildren [...]

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  Creating Custom Flex Component

  Posted on June 26, 2009 by Way in Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  Here is a very simple and useful guide for beginner to follow if you are planning to create custom component in Flex. It mentions the logic and lifecycle how the flex / flash runs. http://labs.realeyesmedia.com/labs/downloads/techBriefs/AdvancedCustomComponents_20071102.pdf

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  Flex Security Error #2148

  Posted on June 22, 2009 by Way in Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  When you want to test the flex application to access local resources without hosting it on web server or in flex builder’s debug folder, the security error will be prompted. Instead, we can add the “-use-network=false” parameter to the compiler option of the flex project to avoid such error. However, the application cannot access Internet [...]

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  Flex MultiLine FormItem

  Posted on June 18, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  This is a very good control to break the form item label into multiple lines. I found it from Google by Nick bilyk. http://www.nbilyk.com/multiline-formitem-label http://www.nbilyk.com/examples/betterFormItemExample/index.html

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  Multiline TabNavigator #2

  Posted on April 20, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  MultiLineTab.as package controls { import flash.display.DisplayObject; import flash.text.TextLineMetrics; import mx.controls.tabBarClasses.Tab; import mx.core.IFlexDisplayObject; import mx.core.UITextField; import mx.core.mx_internal; use namespace mx_internal; public class MultiLineTab extends Tab { public function MultiLineTab() { super(); } override protected function createChildren():void { if (!textField) { textField = new UITextField(); textField.styleName = this; addChild(DisplayObject(textField)); } super.createChildren(); textField.multiline = true; textField.wordWrap = true; [...]

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  Corelib

  Posted on April 16, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  CORELIB有一堆UTILITIES … 有陣時都幾好用~~ http://code.google.com/p/as3corelib/ http://weblogs.macromedia.com/as_libraries/docs/corelib/com/adobe/utils/package-detail.html

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  Flex Multiline TabNavigator

  Posted on April 16, 2009 by Way in ActionScript, Blog, Flex, Flex Note

  Currently, if your label text is too long. The text will be truncated as “…” in the tab. However, there are very few posts talking about how to build a multiline tavnavigator in flex. And the flex API does not provide a style and properties to do such styling. We have to create custom classes. [...]

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