Learn Flex

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 [...]

Compiling MXML application

jon — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:40:57 +0000

In this tutorial you will be provided two ways to compile you flex source file. First one is very easy and in this you all have to just put or directly save your .mxml file in the bin directory of your flex folder. Here the bin directory is the place where the flex compiler is [...]

Introducing Flex

jon — Sun, 17 May 2009 07:37:08 +0000

Flex is a programming language developed on adobe technology to enhance the users capability in building rich internet applications. This latest adobe technology possesses all flash features. Flex is embedded with two languages MXML and Action Script respectively. Among all known scripting languages Action Script is one of them that comes along with Flex SDK(software [...]

Invoking Java methods from Adobe Flex

jon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:26:14 +0000

How to invoke Java methods from Flex application? Add an mapping to the Java class to services-config.xml Map your RemoteObject (provided with Flex SDK) on the client side to the destination configured in services-config.xml Invoke the method in your Java class using the RemoteObject instance What do you need to invoke a Java method from the client side application? Flex [...]

Embedded Fonts in Flex

jon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:20:41 +0000

Panel 1 is a column chart declared in the main application and Panel 2 is the exact same column chart in a module. There is an embedded font ‘Verdana’ in the main application. Charting.mxml <?xml version=”1.0? encoding=”utf-8??> <mx:Application xmlns:mx=”http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml” layout=”horizontal” xmlns:local=”*”> <mx:Style> Application { font-family: Verdana; } @font-face { src:url(”font/verdana.ttf”); fontFamily: Verdana; advancedAntiAliasing: true; } @font-face { src:url(”font/verdanab.ttf”); fontFamily: Verdana; fontWeight: bold; advancedAntiAliasing: true; } @font-face { src:url(”font/verdanai.ttf”); fontFamily: Verdana; font-style: italic; advancedAntiAliasing: true; } </mx:Style> <local:ColumnChart width=”50%” height=”100%” title=”Chart 1?/> <mx:ModuleLoader url=”ChartModule.swf” [...]