Tag Archives: Actionscript

(more) text effects with TweenMax

Posted on July 20, 2009 by admin

EXAMPLE This is an improvement on the technique used here This one deals with linemetrics, and solves the weakness of the other one (that it only works well with monotype fonts) Here’s the class code: Note – you must have … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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Turning Flash CS3 assets into Flex components – Integration of Flash and Flex using Flex Component Kit

Posted on June 24, 2008 by admin

(A Flash CS3 FLV player integrated into Flex 3) click for source EDIT: EXAMPLE HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWN FOR BANDWIDTH REASONS – USE THE ABOVE LINK TO VIEW SOURCE EDIT: re: FLVPlayback component in Flex http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=showdetails&productId=2&postId=13927 This is a method … Continue reading →

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(No) Fun With HTML – Working With HTML Text In Flex

Posted on June 11, 2008 by admin

Working with HTML text in Flex [edit: found an interesting article on this recently here] I have recently been working alot populating TextFields with HTML text in Flex. I have noticed, as the community also shows with a quick google … Continue reading →

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Flex/Flash TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference

Posted on June 1, 2008 by admin

I’m sure many of you have experienced this annoying error message. Here’s a recent encounter I had with it, and the fix: I was loading an swf into a flex application. The swf was compiled from an app that had … Continue reading →

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Simple WordPress Blog displayer in Flash AS 2

Posted on April 4, 2008 by admin

I was looking around for a blog display widget for flash (AS2) to stick in an older project. I found one similar to this, but they were charging for it – so I figured I’d just do one right quick. … Continue reading →

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An introduction to Adobe Flex for beginners – Part 1

Posted on March 11, 2008 by admin

(Here’s an article I wrote for another website, thought I’d go ahead and post it here) Adobe Flex is a development platform for rich internet applications (RIA), based on the Adobe Flash platform. Flex projects, (like flash) compile into the … Continue reading →

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