What a drag. I’m working along on a piece of code and all of a sudden Flex Builder goes off the deep end. Here’s the setup: I have a MXML file with all the declarative stuff and instead of cramming hundreds of lines of ActionScript code into a <mx:Script> block I break it out into [...]

Just kidding about the cost… read on please! I used to work in Visual Studio almost exclusively but now I use Flex Builder most of the time. What I find hard to believe is that there is no code formatter in Flex Builder. I want to cut and paste and add and remove in a [...]

I always use livedocs while programming in Flex and ActionScript. I was certainly surprised when I opened Firefox to see the nuances of the ButtonBar control and saw this: Yikes! I opened the same link ( http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/mx/controls/ButtonBar.html ) in “That popular browser from that very successful company” as well as Opera and saw the correct [...]

I needed to draw a grid and every 8th vertical line had to be wider than the others. As you know you use the lineStyle() method (aside: I learned the C language in 1984… hunks-o-code were methods and if they returned something they were functions!) of the Graphics class to set the line width, color, [...]

If you ever want to complain about something in Flex you may want to think twice. If you don’t like something, change it! Since the source code for the Flex framework (which sits on top of flash) is open, modify it to fit your needs. For instance, last night I stumbled upon the mx.graphics RectangularDropShadow [...]

I had previously posted about flash lite and the iPhone. Well, that dream looks less likely according to this article which reports that Steve Jobs is not enamored with the Flash idea on the iPhone. However, perhaps in lieu of Flash, the “Unofficail Apple Weblog” says of Apple: “we plan to have an iPhone SDK [...]

If you use the Flex Skin Design Extensions & Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 to create graphical skins for use in flex you may find times when you only want to use only certain states of components that support states, not all of them. For instance you may want to use only the “over” [...]

I have a personality defect (feature?) in that I get attached to things. I keep cars for 15 years, am happy with the status quo, and generally do not change for change sake. But recently the handwriting was on the wall for my old laptop (circa 2002) as it was struggling to keep up. Even [...]