Their are so many times I’ve used a random colour in my apps (mainly for testing) that I thought I’d add this way of using a getter method with actionscript to simplify the process. First of if you haven’t got one already, create a uiltily class so features that you use regulary across projects (you …
Do you frequently use simple actionscript functions in more than one project. Perhaps you’ve got a function to do tracking, parse strings to dates, or return a random colour etc. I’m sure most folk will have struggled to think of what project they last used a generic function ABC in as they could do with …
If you have a datagrid that has different coloured columns, then why should you have to do with only using a single colour for the highlight. Below is a simple soloution using actionscript to solve this. First I should state that you need to use the AdvancedDataGrid even if you only need a normal DataGrid. …
When I was setting up my blog, one of the first things I found out about was creating custom searches using Google. So I promptly set up a custom search that had a list of my favourite and most frequently visited flex sites and at the same time if those sites didn’t have the info …
Question: What has a hidden entrance, is dark, damp and a just bit fousty (for any non Scottish readers – definition ) and takes quite a while to warm up? Answer: SoTR09 🙂 Yes, the Scotch on the Rocks 09 event held in Edinburgh was in a building called ‘The Caves’.  Oddly enough for a …
I resisted installing gumbo until it reached public beta, and having just done so started up a project only to find that using the auto complete VBox amongst others seemed to have disappeared. Â Although using the VBox tag worked in exactly the same way as previously. This made me a tad curious, was this a …
Adding an icon to a form item is (yet another) one of those really annoying things in flex. I’m sure its something that loads of people wish to do but you can’t. Well just to see if I could, I set about and extended the FormItem class so that I could add an image/icon. After …
In one of my first blogs I demoed a pie chart that made each of the wedges from the pie explode out the way when its item in the legend was rolled over by the mouse. The pie chart also had a nice effect when it was shown in that it filled up in a …
It’s been a while since I last looked at this, and it annoys me that there isn’t a simple function to do this. So if you are wishing to find out how many days are in a month for a given year then feel free to use the below. Of course it’s going to be …
Ever had a project where your client has some kind of odd/unusual caching issue with their servers that you have absoulutly zero control over? Well if you have (which I have had) then the following swc file may help you to diagnose the problem. Its a very simple swc file that you can place inside …