Well Flex 2.0 is a step closer with the launch of Macromedia Labs. The new Labs site aims to provide developers with an insight into new Macromedia technologies and inovations. The official launch will be Monday 17th at MAX 2005 in Anaheim California, b
The question of how to handle/listen to button clicks from the Alert control pops up (excuse the pun) quite often. To do this you need to create an actionscript function to handle the event. Other situations may arise where you also need to pass further
I'll be attending the MVC for Actionscript 2 Master Class run by the team at Rocketboots this Friday 9th September. The class will cover a range of topics including:
The Value of Code
Design Patterns
MVC Patterns
The benefits of MVC
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For those of us using ColdFusion as the backend for Flex applications tracking down bugs in a lovingly crafted remote object (CFC) can be a tedious experience.
Mike Chambers has set off a lightning storm in the Flex world recently when he recently wrote a post dicussing will Zorn require a Flex server?
The answer - NO.
Users of Zorn (the new Flex IDE) will be able to develop and deploy Flex applications with
There will come a time when your application server requires user authentication before you can access a service. Flex provides a setUsernamePassword method on its service objects, which adds a Credentials header to the service request. Unfortunately when
Working with Flex and ColdFusion can introduce a few problems regarding the way AMF handles the deserialization of CF structs (or objects) on the return from a remoting call. Non String types returned as Strings, Date types only working when they feel lik
Just like you would when coding a webpage with div's and CSS-P (css positioning) you can now have that same contol when coding for Flex. Manish Jethani has written a great post demonstrating how to control Flex application layout using css. Complete sourc
Macromedia Consulting have released this nice little "work in progess" Flex css style application. It's basically a tool to assist in creating visual designs for Flex applications.
It provides a demonstration of the available style controls for Flex comp
Well a requirement has come up where we would like to have some sort of flex calendar component. In its simplest form it would be nice to show on the date chooser which days currently have at least one task. Sounds simple enough doesn't it?
Maybe not so