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Category Archives: Flex

FlexStore Revisited: Building an Animated Spark Layout

Six years ago, I wrote the FlexStore sample application for Flex 1.0 (code name Royale at the time). The original version is still running here and shows the progress we have made in six years! Two years later, I rewrote the application for Flex 2. One major difference in the Flex 2 version was that [...]
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More Flex 4 / Spark ItemRenderer Samples

Here are a few additional examples of Flex 4 / Spark ItemRenderers. They are similar to the examples I provided in my previous post with a different set of items.
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Cool ItemRenderers Made Easy in Flex 4

Flex 4 makes a lot of things a lot easier to build. After looking at custom components and skins in my previous post, here are a couple of samples focusing on ItemRenderers, States, and Animations. In this first example, I use the new “depth” attribute together with the new States syntax to make sure that [...]
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Creating a Custom Component and Skins in Flex 4

The basic idea behind the Spark component model in Flex 4 is to entirely decouple the behavior of a component from its visual representation. You code the behavior of a component in one class and its visual representation in interchangeable MXML skin classes. This new architecture leads to lighter weight and easier to customize components. [...]
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Tampa Bay Adobe Developer Event this Thursday

I’ll be in Tampa with James Ward and Greg Wilson this week, and we thought it would be great to put together an informal event for the local Tampa bay developer community. The details below are from Greg’s original post. When: Thursday, Jan 21 6:30pm-8:30pm Location: Taverna Opa Tampa – Channelside – next to Splitsville [...]
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AIR 2.0 Web Server using the New Server Socket API

After exploring Java integration using the new Native Process API (here and here), Excel integration using the new file.openWithDefaultApplication(), and the new Microphone API, here is another application I wrote, this time to explore the new Adobe AIR 2.0 Server Socket API. The “Mini AIR Web Server” is a simplistic implementation of an HTTPServer. Needless [...]
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Embedding Tomcat and BlazeDS in an AIR 2.0 Application

In my previous post, I demonstrated how to create a simple Tomcat Launcher using the new AIR 2.0 Native Process API. The assumption in that sample was that Tomcat was already installed on your machine. In this new sample application, I’m taking that idea a little further by embedding Tomcat as part of the native [...]
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Tomcat Launcher: Sample Application using the AIR 2.0 Native Process API

I have been playing with the new Native Process API of AIR 2.0, and here is a first sample application I wrote. “Tomcat Launcher” is like a mini Tomcat Console that allows you to start / stop Tomcat and view the standard output log without opening a DOS box or Terminal window. It also allows [...]
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“Open in Excel”: Another AIR 2 Mini Sample

In Adobe AIR 1.0 and 1.5, there were different options to “open” the data of a Flex DataGrid in Excel. For example, you could leverage the AIR native drag-and-drop support to drag rows from the DataGrid to an open Excel spreadsheet. You could also drag rows to the desktop (or anywhere on the file system) [...]
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“Voice Notes”: Record Voice Notes and Persist them in SQLite with AIR 2

As you probably already know, the Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 betas are now available on Adobe Labs. I’ve been playing with the Microphone API in AIR 2 while working on the booth here at Devoxx, and built this small sample application that allows you to record voice notes and store them in the [...]
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