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Adobe Flex 4 SDK

jon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:47:17 +0000

Welcome to the Adobe Flex® 4 SDK beta release on Adobe Labs (previously code named Gumbo). This release marks an expanded role for the Flex framework, now supporting both developers creating Flex applications and designers using Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ to create interaction design. You can build great Flex applications using only the Flex 4 SDK and [...]

Flex FORMATTING DATA GRID ROWS AND HEADERS

jon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:42:59 +0000

When developing applications with the DataGrid component, you may want to use a custom font so the data grid fits with your overall design. YOu change fonts by setting a custom text format using a TextFormat object, and the setStyle() or setRendererStyle() methods. If you want to set the text format for a DataGrid component’s header, use [...]

Customizing and sorting the DataGrid component

jon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:40:05 +0000

The following quick start demonstrates how to customize data grid columns, sort data grid columns numerically, format numbers in data grid columns using a custom label function, and how to specify a custom text format for both data grid headers and data grid rows. CREATING DATA GRID COLUMNS USING THE DATAGRIDCOLUMN OBJECT There are two main ways [...]

corner radius on a Halo MenuBar control in Flex 4

jon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:39:10 +0000

The following example shows how you can set the corner radius on a Halo MenuBar control in Flex 4 by creating a custom skin and setting the radiusX and radiusY properties. Full code after the jump. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <s:Application name=”Halo_MenuBar_cornerRadius_test” xmlns:fx=”http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009″ xmlns:s=”library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark” [...]

Flex Ajax Bridge

jon — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:29:39 +0000

The Flex Ajax Bridge (FABridge) is a small code library that you can insert into an Flex application, a Flex component, or an empty SWF file to expose it to scripting in the browser. Rather than having to define new, simplified APIs to expose a graph of ActionScript objects to JavaScript, with FABridge you can make [...]

Rich Internet applications (RIAs)

jon — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:27:50 +0000

What is a rich Internet application? In the late nineties, “browsing the web” meant going online to read text and view static images. But that model was limiting. As the number of Internet-connected businesses and individuals increased, so did the demand for richer, more responsive user experiences. In 2002, Macromedia coined the term rich Internet application (RIA). RIAs [...]

Flex Tricks

jon — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:26:31 +0000

Top Things You Need to Know When Working With Flex Explore the key features of Flex with code examples and working sample applications. These step-by-step code-based tutorials are written in easy to digest 15 minute chunks. We suggest going through them (at least glancing at them) in order, but you can also [...]

Flex Validator example

jon — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:44:28 +0000

Code below shows Flex validator component example. With these components different types of data are get validated with appropriate validators. The provided flex feature is mostly used in validating the user ids, email addresses and passwords. In the example validator for email and phone numbers are made. When the user writes, data validator checks [...]

Flex Alert Box example

jon — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:44:05 +0000

Alert box is a dialog box that appears on window with some message and stays rigid until the event associated with it is not done. Alert Box is also referred to as pop-up window. Among these two words Alert & box, Alert is a class defined inside the mx.controls package. The pop-up window appears when [...]

Flex Combo Box example

jon — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:41:47 +0000

In this tutorial page you will be taught to utilize ComboBox control inside your flex file. In the example you will learn to build two ComboBox controls. The Example below shows combo boxes with nicely formatted string data, so here you will be also taught to do the graphical works on flex visual component. The [...]