RIA insight from Sven Ramuschkat and Dirk Eismann.
For a good overview on everything about the now Open Sourced AS3 Engine check JD's posts here and here. Also, for a better understanding of what this means (and what not) I'd (again) like to quote Gordon Smith (Adobe):This is a major contribution fro...
Here's a little custom border class I created called SimpleGradientBorder which allows you to use non-solid fills with Flex 2 containers. Here's how it looks (the Container shown here is actually a Canvas):By setting the border-skin style of a Contai...
Gordon Smith (Flex Framework Engineer) hits the nail on the head. A very good post on flexcoders on the topic of deferred instantiation and the use of creationPolicy.http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/54397(Sorry for simply copy & ...
Cairngorm 2.1 is available at labs.adobe.com. The Changes according to the release notes:
Responder has been deprecated. Use mx.rpc.IResponder
Command has been deprecated. Use com.adobe.cairngorm.commands.ICommand
ValueObject has been deprec...
A prerelease version of Adobe Flex Builder 2 for Macintosh has been released at labs.adobe.com! Get it while it's hot!Dirk.
While browsing flex.org I just found this article by Christophe Coenraets called "30 Minutes Flex Test-Drive for Java Developers". Nothing more to say about the article than this: IMHO the article covers everything a Java Developer needs to know to j...
I just returned from the Adobe office in Milan where I trained the new Flex 2.0 courseware ("Developing Rich Client Applications" and "Data and Communications") to an excited group of 16 people from Italy, Austria and France (I hope I did not miss an...
Duane Nickull has posted some screenshots of the pre-release OSX version of Flex Builder 2 on his blog.Dirk....
The former MCI (Macromedia Certified Instructor) program has become part of the Adobe Solutions Network and a few days ago I received my new ACI (Adobe Certified Instructor) certificates (printed on heavy paper with some golden letters - very neat). ...
While coding in Flex Builder 2 I found an interesting code hint for a enterDebugger():void method. This seemed to be another undocumented goodie so I gave it a try - and it really works. By using the enterDebugger() method in your code you can invoke...