Developing for Apple’s devices can throw up a few little quirks that don’t happen when using Android devices. This one happens if you are using shared objects to store information between sessions. Basically, you should always call the flush mechanism whether you are adding more data to the shared object or if you are deleting …
Its quite a common thing with Flex and actionscript projects to create an Object and inside that object it will have many properties. Something in your view will be bound to the object so that the view changes with the object. So long as you change the entire object this will work fine. Where this …
Sometimes I like to put something up on my blog that’s more as of a bookmark for myself as I know I’ll want to look it up at some point. So what I’ve got here is a slack, open cross domain policy. DO NOT USE THIS IN YOUR PRODUCTION CODE (unless you really need to …
Working on a mobile project I needed to create a renderer for a list, so I choose to look at the IconItemRenderer which extends the LabelItemRenderer. These have been optimised for mobile use so it seemed a reasonable place to start. On the whole they seem like good classes to use, but if you’ve ever …
The other day I wanted to create a function in a class that would take a Function as a parameter and an Array of arguments. Much like callLater() does, but not doing the whole queuing thing until the next frame. So how do you call a function that may have any number of arguments. Well …
I was playing around with some code recently (Flex 4 code) and I went to create a simple background and not having Catalyst or similar to output a fxg file I went to create my own gradients with some code. After a couple of goes and not getting anything resembeling what I expect I decided …
Inserting code that will be excluded depending on compiler arguments
simple tip on drawing borders around a Datagrid
A while back I posted an article on Google giving errors with indexing SWF files that used the RSL framework feature to reduce the overall size of your SWF. It seemed to me very odd that you have Adobe trying to push the use of RSL’s as well as bumming up the great work that …
Redundancy… world shrinking economy… depression… company cutbacks… is this a bleak time or is it a time to make and face new challenges in the RIA world (particularly in the Flex and Actionscript areas)? Well after the unfortunate news that the company I work for are no longer wishing to partake in the RIA party …