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The following example shows how you can use the PopUpManager class to display a VideoDisplay control in a TitleWindow container in Flex. Continue reading »

written by Flex \\ tags: pop up window, video

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 »

written by Flex \\ tags: Flex, Flexlib, FlowBox

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 »

written by Flex \\ tags: ActionScript, communitymx, Cookie, Flash, SharedObject

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 »

written by Flex \\ tags: ActionScript, Add new tag, bits, BitsReader, ByteArray, RECT

 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 »

written by Flex \\ tags: ActionScript, Component, Memory, MXML, PERFORMANCE

Last week  working on an application which combines Google App Engine, Adobe AIR, and Flex. This was a fun experiment that turned into a pretty cool application. The application, named QuickFix, sends an image to Google App Engine which does an “I’m Feeling Lucky” transformation on the image and sends it back. Here’s a screenshot of it fixing one of the photos I took at the Java Posse Roundup this past winter: Continue reading »

written by Flex \\ tags: Adobe AIR, Flex, Google App Engine, Python

NASDAQ Market Replay provides a NASDAQ-validated replay and analysis of the activity in the stock market. The application is built using the Adobe Flex and AIR platform, and utilizes the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for persisting historical market data. The combination of S3 and AIR offers a powerful deployment model with little internal infrastructure required. The simple, yet robust, deployment is possible because the AIR runtime runs on the client machine. Amazon S3 removes the need for a traditional middle-tier server, as the data is accessed in from the Amazon “cloud”. Continue reading »

written by Flex \\ tags: Adobe, Adobe Integrated Runtime, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, Flash, Flex, S3

Last week I spent a few hours with Dick Wall of the Java Posse working on an application which combines Google App Engine, Adobe AIR, and Flex. This was a fun experiment that turned into a pretty cool application. The application, named QuickFix, sends an image to Google App Engine which does an “I’m Feeling Lucky” transformation on the image and sends it back. Here’s a screenshot of it fixing one of the photos I took at the Java Posse Roundup this past winter: Continue reading »

written by Flex \\ tags: Adobe AIR, Flex, Google App Engine, QuickFix