I’ve had one of the weirdest problems last week when a friend reported that our newly designed navigation menu created in Flex was not working on her MacBook.
Basically, I had a couple of moving Flex Canvas’s where I attached mouse click events.
private function homeClicked(evt:MouseEvent):void {
getURL('/');
}
private function updatesClicked(evt:MouseEvent):void {
getURL('/category/updates');
}
private function [...]
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Tags: Flash Player·Flex·Mac OS X·navigateToURL·z-index
This book has been released under Creative Commons License and is available for download…
Yes, for FREE!
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
You can checkout Mike Chamber’s blog for more details.
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When developing JSF applications, I rely heavily on these two sites as reference for the Tag syntax.
http://www.exadel.com/tutorial/jsf/jsftags-guide.html
http://www.horstmann.com/corejsf/jsf-tags.html
With Flex, there’s a similar tool where you can see Flex 3 components in action.
http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/componentexplorer/explorer.html
Try visiting and comparing the mentioned sites and you’ll probably have an idea why I’m really excited about developing applications in Flex.
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After several days of playing with Flex, I’ve managed to create a simple Java-based backend using BlazeDS and the Java Persistence API (JPA).
In this post, we will try to implement what used to be a very popular application (during the early days of the Internet), the “Guest Book“.
What you’ll need:
Flex Builder 3 (you can download [...]
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Tags: Adobe Flex·BlazeDS·Flex·Java·JPA·TopLink
I was trying to modify this stock ticker example to work with Flex 3 when I came upon a surprising conclusion.
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
Spider-Man / Spider-Man 2
Yes, I’m 100% convinced that Flex is the way to go if you want rich interactive user interfaces.
But that does not come without a [...]
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Tags: Adobe Flex·Firefox·Flex·Spiderman
I’ve had the privilege to work on some proof of concept pages using Flex since last week. Yes, I’ve heard the buzz around RIA and Flex before but I didn’t have the time to play around with the application until now.
I originally thought that it was somehow expensive to develop applications using Flex, but looking [...]
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