Tag Archives: Flash

(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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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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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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Flex ActionScript 3.0 Typewriter Effect

Posted on July 13, 2008 by admin

This is a slight modification of the Flash Typewriter effect found here: sample (right click for source)

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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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How to sell downloads from your Flex app using payloadz and paypal

Posted on June 6, 2008 by admin

I was going to write a full article on this subject, then found the following link: link! Then put the following code inside your flex application: <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ public var dlURL1:String=”http://payloadz.com/go/sip?id=youridnumber”; private function dl1():void { var url2:String = this.dlURL1 var … 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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