Jul 24
The width of FlowBox will be the sum of its children’s width, if the width of FlowBox is set to 100%. So FlowBox will never re-layout the children.
It’s simple to solve this problem, just bind the width of FlowBox to the width of its parent or other fixed number. Continue reading »
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\\ tags: Flex, Flexlib, FlowBox
Jul 24
Lynda.com has released a new course by David Gassner entitled AIR for Flex Developers. This course looks at how Flex Builder 3 and the Flex 3 framework can be used to build cross-system desktop applications with Adobe AIR, and covers every point of integration with the host operating system, including working with the local file system, creating and maintaining local databases, and managing native windows and menus.
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\\ tags: AIR, Flex
Jul 16
Have you ever wanted to store persistent information in your Flash movies, save login information, shopping cart data, user preferences, even complex objects like arrays? If you have purchased “Flash Extension”, simply import the cookie class and copy the source code like following: Continue reading »
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\\ tags: ActionScript, communitymx, Cookie, Flash, SharedObject
Jul 15
Working on SWF file decompiling according to the swf_file_format_spec_v9.pdf provided by adobe these days. After I decompiled the first 8 bytes data of a sample SWF file. I found that the FrameSize is defined as a RECT structure below: Continue reading »
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\\ tags: ActionScript, Add new tag, bits, BitsReader, ByteArray, RECT
Jul 15
This project strives to provided flex components for crating calendar components. (Timeline, day, week, month and agenda view)
This projects is still work in progress and is not even at an alpha stage, but please look around and offer help or suggestions.
Check out the current status of the code: Continue reading »
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\\ tags: calendar, Flex, flex calendar
Jul 15
Apple’s new MobileMe service certainly sounds impressive, it delivers push functionality for the masses - your data is pushed up to your own storage spot in the cloud, and then automagically synced with your iPhone. Pretty cool. And it really works, kind of. Continue reading »
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Jul 11
I have been puzzled by a problem for a long time: Is the memory usage of components built with mxml tag bigger than that of components built in actionScript? I did a simple experiment below to find the truth. Continue reading »
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\\ tags: ActionScript, Component, Memory, MXML, PERFORMANCE
Jul 11
Adobe AIR includes the capability of creating and working with local SQL databases. Many stand SQL features are supported in the runtime, open source SQLite system can be used for storing local, persistent data.
The flollowing is a simplistic example that create a sqlite database, add, get, update and remove records from the “user” table. Continue reading »
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\\ tags: Adobe, AIR, database, openAsync, SQL, SQLite