Category: Flex

102 posts

Flex 2 Effects Explorer 0.1

by kai on 25/10/2006

My colleague and friend David Keutgens built a Flex 2 Effects Explorer application - following its "big brother" Flex 2 Style Explorer. Please note that I don't have to do anything with it (not yet ;) but just provide the information and the download (to give the tool a good headstart). We actually have no idea if someone developed such as thing before or if someone could use it at all, but here…

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Faking a currency numeric stepper in Flex 2

by kai on 23/10/2006

I was building a Flex 2 prototype for a customer just recently. Part of this prototype application were several forms to juggle with money amounts in NZ$ - a good opportunity to use a numeric stepper you might think. Obviously, when dealing with money values in an application, you would like to have a currency symbol in the NumericStepper. When we were trying to achieve this effect, various…

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Pre-Review: Flex 2 Developing Rich Client Applications

by kai on 27/07/2006

I'm currently working myself through the Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications materials. This class is basically going to be the introductory class of the certified Adobe curriculum and would usually be a 3-day class (roughly). After going through the book, the slides and the examples I just have to say that this class rocks! In terms of the materials and the structure this is def. one of…

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Some mixed stuff

by kai on 18/03/2006

Some mixed stuff and links that I came across during the last few days:

Good CSS tutorials

Microsoft IE Active Content Update - particularly important for Flash developers
Breezo on IE Update
Flex 1.5 patch for IE update

Nokia Flash Lite Zone

Tons of stuff on labs.adobe.com:

XMP toolkit
Breezo on Flex-Ajax integration
AS 3 libraries
Flex-Ajax integration

Search Engines and Flash

Everything Flex Blog

An interesting discussion on expiring form data in CFFORMS

Pseudo static variables in Flash/Flex

by kai on 13/09/2005

The other day I was running into an odd issue. I've developed a Flex component and inherited two other components from this parent component. In the parent component I've defined a private variable inside of an mx:Script block: private var myDataArray = new Array(); Additionally the parent component offered a private function to push objects into that array. I created instances of the two…

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Flex, Eclipse and the Eclipse Web Tools Platform

by kai on 31/08/2005

In one of my last posts I told you about some issue with OxygenXML and Eclipse 3.1 when doing Flex development. Luckily, Darron Schall just blogged about his efforts to use the Eclipse Web Tools Platform for Flex development and seemed to be pretty satisfied with it.

I gave it a try today and I'd have to say that it's a blast. The installation worked totally smoothly, it's perfectly integrated in Eclipse and does exactly what it's supposed to do.

Visualization of Amdahls Law II: Flex app

by kai on 28/08/2005

Following my last two posts, here's the final Flex app. If it takes a while to load and to start the reason is most probably not your line or Flex, it's more or less because of my pretty slow server.

Well, comparing to yesterday's screenshot, I changed a few things in the UI, applied a style sheet etc.

If you're interested in the code, you can download it here. But don't expect a magnificient firework of creativity, it's pretty simple and straightforward ;)

Flex and SAP: some speculative thoughts

by kai on 26/04/2005

After the announcement of SAP to integrate Flex in their NetWeaver platform I digged a bit and tried to compile some information about this approach and it's possible impacts. Be aware that I'm far away from being an SAP expert, it's more of a collection of interesting resources and my personal thoughts...1. Flex to run on NetWeaver: this sounds quite simple and easy. NetWeaver is a…

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Accolade for Flex: SAP embeds Flex into NetWeaver

by kai on 26/04/2005

Wow, this might become huge: SAP just announced that they will embed Macromedias Flex into their NetWeaver technology, in particular into NetWeaver Visual Composor as a first step. SAP developers will be able to deliver applications using the Flex technology within NetWeaver as they were able to do this with DHTML and Java by now already. Additionally - and this is very interesting: Macromedia…

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Installing Flex 1.5 on Suse Linux 9

by kai on 26/01/2005

I've got a linux box running at an ISP for my testing, lab and fun projects. After receiving the Flex non-commercial license several days ago I installed it over the weekend and - be surprised or not - it went quite smoothly. As I never installed it on Linux before, I'm very happy about that - the installation process on Windows servers always was boring easy ;) There are two potential issues to…

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