I was looking for a way to set parameters more quickly to newly added childs and I found out something interestinging. (Note that this will not result in faster code execution, it's merely to type less :-). I did some testing for the performance, check it out at the bottom ...

Imagine a situation where you have a Flex application and you need to display a popup window in which an external application is doing something else with the same data. You don’ have control over the external application, but you know it is written in HTML and PHP. Imagine also ...

I developed a small flash component that keeps track of all the notifications (using my simple facade) that are send within your flash application. It will show you in a log format which notifications have been sent and also gives you an overview of which class is connected to ...

With the introduction of actionscript 3, one of the classes that came with a lot of new features is the Textfield class. To be more specific, we now have access to more information about the textfields content such as character, paragraphs and line metrics. The goal in this blog post ...

Recently I tried using Five3D in a pure AS3 project using flex builder 3. Everything went well upon compiling, it was nagging that it (FB) couldn't find the fl.motion.Color class. I looked into the Five3D code and it is indeed using the Color class to simulate basic shading. And actually that ...

In one of our latest project we wanted to use some sort of an event system that would make it possible for components to dispatch events to each other even though they are not aware of each other or are not in the same displaylist structure. In that last example ...

A while ago, I’ve written my first real, technically complex AIR application for a client. Like I mentioned in another post then (http://blog.multimediacollege.be/2009/03/using-the-local-encrypted-database-in-air-theory-and-practise/) , the theory and practice of the SQLite database that is shipped with AIR don’t always ...

Every once in a while you come across a problem you can’t fix with the basic components provided by a certain kind of technology. OK, so I lied: Very often you come across a problem you can’t fix with the basic components! Flex is not different at all. ...

I’ve just finished a rather technical AIR project in which I encountered some major and minor issues regarding the use of AIR technology and I thought I would share them with you all, hoping I can provide some solutions to problem you may encounter when you create your ...

Say you have an event handler that is called each time an event is triggered and you would like to call this function directly (so without waiting for an event to happen). See the following scenario of a ...