Flex

Houston, we have a problem

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Not one to get left out of the blogging frenzy at the moment, I thought I’d better add my $0.02 about the Apollo release… and I would except it doesn’t work on Win2K!!! So now Adobe want me to upgrade to Vista as well??? Would love to hear something from Adobe re: the final target … Read more

Webservice with Flex problem solved!

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So it's been nigh on two months since I first experienced a strange Firefox webservice issue. My previous post details what was going on with the converter application and it's seemingly non-cross platform behaviour. I've tried a few different things since my first post, including logging bug reports with Adobe (which got no feedback), posting … Read more

Flex 2 Unit Converter – Part III

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Ok, the plot continues to thicken on the Flex front. I've been pulling my hair out trying to the get the previous example to work when viewing it on the web and up to about a minute ago I was having no luck. So I thought I'd finally upgrade my flash player in IE (yes, … Read more

Flex 2 Unit Converter – Part II

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Though I'd continue my work on the unit converter, add a few more conversions (Volume, Weight & Mass and everybody's favourite – Computer Units are now available). But the thing I really wanted to add was a currency conversion. This turned out to be more trouble than I had originally anticipated. Mainly due to the … Read more

Flex 2 and horizontal scrollbars

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I was mucking about with viewing the flex unit converter at different screen sizes and noticed that when viewed at a size small enough to require a vertical scroll bar, a horizontal scroll bar would also appear. Basically the introduction of the vertical scrollbar adds 16 pixels to the entire movie, without first removing 16 … Read more

Flex 2 Unit Converter

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This has been on my list of things to do in Flex since it was released. I finally got around to knocking together this units converter (the first three tabs are the only ones that work at the moment). During the development I think I finally grasped (well, got a better grasp anyway 😉 Events … Read more

Flexing my brain

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I've just finished reading an article over at http://www.actionscript.com where Jesse Warden answers 10 questions on Flash & Flex. Question 4 really piqued my interest: "4. Coming from a Flash perspective, what was easy about learning Flex and what was the biggest challenge?". Jesse answers that question in 7 parts, here's part 2:

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Live reflection component with a twist!

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This is my first foray into the flex world, and I’ve chosen to take some baby steps by extending a component that was published by Narciso Jaramillo over at http://rictus.com/muchado/ . As I’ve never published code that I’ve “extended” before, if I’m doing this in a way that would contravene the GPL licence that is … Read more