Today while coding I was creating some classes that required them to dispatch custom events. I know that this is a fairly common thing to do but sometimes it is these little things that can trip you up or take a while to find out how to do them. So I thought that each time …
Today (not for the first time – but it’s been a while) I needed to create a custom class that took a custom itemRenderer. Having used itemRenderers for ages I thought it was going to be straight forward, but I’d forgotten a few little bits of info needed to implement them from scratch (i.e. not …
Well this is slightly old news, and a lot of you may well know that the New York Times has released a very good AIR application for reading the news. You may even recognize it from the demo that was given at Max 2008 (for the International Herald Tribune). http://www.insideria.com/2009/05/new-york-times-air-reader-rele.html Well what I didn’t know …
On more than one occasion in the past I’ve been wishing to create a custom component that is totally dynamic so that I don’t have to worry about hardcoding any sizes. So lets just say I have a list/tilelist and it contains pictures. Normally what I’d do is make sure that the pictures are a …
So you may have read my previous posts on the custom search that I created, well as suggested in a previous comment the information to create one then turn it into a open search search plugin and then into a firefox plugin is out there. It’s just not all in the same place. So I’m …
I started to try out some flex with Google maps and it’s refreshingly straight forward. Virtually all of the information to do the below can be found here http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/flash/reference.html So I’m just going to highlight a couple of things I did that were not in the docs. Panning Panning, well there is an example …
Following on from my recent post on creating a specific flex search using Google I wanted to make it easier to flick between the main Google search and the flex collection Google search. Well I’ve created an OpenSearch plugin (supported by Firefox 2+, Internet Explorer 7+, etc) so I can now easily flick to a …
Totally off topic this. But I had quite a bit of hassle trying to find info on how to do what I just did. So if you look to your right you’ll see a nice search box with the Google brand inside it 🙂 Nothing special there you may think… well. Well it’s a custom …
Ages ago I worked on an accessibility tool that followed the mouse around the stage and magnified whatever the mouse was over. It never made it to the final stages of completion but after reading a question on flexcoders for a zooming tool, I thought I’d revisit the idea and create a simple magnification/zoom example. …
3D Cube Component multi-sided example.