Category Archives: Flex

cool xml photo gallery with flex and PaperVision3D

Posted on July 17, 2009 by admin

This is an example of a photo gallery in Flex using papervision3D and a “sliced cube” effect for the transitions. The image data is loaded from an external xml file. Major credit goes to John Lindquist for the cool effect. … Continue reading →

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Using Flex swf to load html into frames

Posted on April 17, 2009 by admin

I recently had a reason to do this, and saw that many people online are having problems. Here’s a solution, and a few notes to help. First the Flex code:

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Text Effects in Flex with TweenMax

Posted on February 16, 2009 by admin

I’ve just been playing around with TweenMax for a short time, playing with animated filters on a Label control in Flex. There may be better ways to do this, but I thought I’d share: example code below:

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Flex Community Blog – WidgetBox Widget

Posted on February 2, 2009 by admin

Add the Flex Community Blog Widget to your site: embed the following code: if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget(‘c881dce4-5c1f-4a64-96e7-91309fa59624′);Get the Flex Community Blog – Adobe Flex, Flash and Actio widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! You can also go to … Continue reading →

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How to UnFlex Your Flex – Making Flex applications look and feel unique

Posted on December 19, 2008 by admin

An important part of your job as a flex developer (whether designing yourself or interfacing with designers) is skinning/styling the application in such a way as to disguise it’s default flex roots and breath a unique life and identity to … Continue reading →

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Using Google Maps API in Flex

Posted on December 10, 2008 by admin

This example uses geocoding, getRoute, step by step directions, and printing to create a useful google map in flex.

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Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine (review)

Posted on October 18, 2008 by admin

I just read the second issue of Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine, the cover story being “A Breath of Fresh AIR for Desktop Apps” – And let me tell you, this magazine is a breath of fresh air for me!

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Undocumented Maximum FontSize

Posted on September 29, 2008 by admin

It seems that there is a 127 maximum font size for (at least) label and textArea. If you set fontSize larger than that it will stay at 127. Very annoying. (Ugly) workaround: use scaleX and scaleY to make text bigger. … Continue reading →

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What annoys you about Flex?

Posted on September 17, 2008 by admin

Here’s an opportunity to complain about the tool we all love… http://www.flexcommunity.net/node/5 Mine are (to start with), 1)weak HTML support 2)not-very-cascading CSS support

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Displaying Paypal IPN payment data in Adobe Flex via AMFPHP

Posted on July 30, 2008 by admin

Displaying Paypal IPN payment data in Adobe Flex via AMFPHP This article explains how to access paypal payment data sent from IPN (instant payment notification) to a MySQL database using AMHPHP and displayed in a Flex front-end. The end result … Continue reading →

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