While we wait for the final release version of Flex Builder 3, there are periodic interruptions to our workflow as new Beta versions are released and pieces of the current installation “expire”. Previously I had posted about Flex Builder Beta expiring and how you could enter your old Flex Builder 2 registration number in and be granted [...]
When you first start in with Flex it is easy to be hoodwinked by all the example code that uses the Flex RPC components (remote object services, web services, and HTTP services) and think “Wow, this is fantastic! Just point to the server and get back this ArrayCollection and use it as a data provider [...]
In a recent project I had a need for some basic string functions that are not supplied “out of the box”. Below is a class with some static methods. The old saw is that there was only one original computer program ever written in the history of mankind and the rest are morphs of that first [...]
There’s a potential gotcha when using the RDS DataView view in Flex Builder. I started investigating the the ColdFusion/Flex Connectivity package and ColdFusion extensions for Flex Builder to see the CFCs and ActionScript Value Objects that can be automagically created from a specified database table in RDS Server. I ran into trouble trying to access my [...]
As I’ve mentioned before, I work from home. Many years ago I set as a personal goal to be able to be “geographically independent” meaning that I could work from anywhere. My first stay-at-home job was a programming job circa 1999 where I physically went to the office on Mondays for the “staff meeting” which resembled Ben [...]
This post is a follow up to yesterday’s post demonstrating how to use the SWFLoader class to load an external SWF at runtime and then set public properties of that external SWF. It got me to thinking about something the Flex documentation pointed up: SWFLoader docs ===> The SWFLoader control loads and displays a specified [...]
Flex gives us the ability to load SWF files (as well as static graphic files, text and binary data) at runtime (as opposed to compile time using the [Embed] metadata tag). Some advantages to runtime loading include: - You have full control of when the asset is loaded - You can update the loaded SWF [...]