The new Flex 4 skinning architecture makes it easier for developers to completely change the look and feel of an application, while providing better separation between components and their skins. In this blogpost, by using FXG and the new states syntax, we’ll write a basic MXML skin that reflects it’s hostcomponent states. For those of [...]
I’ve been quiet for quite some time now. There are 2 reasons for that. The first one is simply because I have been busy on a couple of projects and just didn’t find the time to write another blog post. The second reason is that I wanted to wait and see what would happen with [...]
Today I was discussing the Validator classes on the Adobe prerelease forum with a couple of other Flex developers. The Flex Validator classes are pretty good for some basic validation and give you a fly-over error message (which you can customize) and a red component outline when the validation fails. Now, the problem with these [...]
Yesterday I received yet another monstrous update for the BlackBerry PlayBook. While on the one hand it is awesome that BlackBerry are investing so much time and effort to make things better, but a 250MB update every 2 weeks or so is a little too much for my taste. So far, I was quite happy [...]
As a developer, once in a while you discover something new that makes you go ”How come nobody ever told me about this and why do I only find this out NOW ? ” Last year, when I discovered that a Function in AS3 is also a class and can be used as a a [...]
Wake up and breathe the fresh air (pun intented)! Flash builder 4.5 is released and I have to say it’s a great release. And I’m not just talking about the move towards mobile but more about the small things that make a hardened flash programmer just a little bit happier. Did Adobe finally meet the [...]
As I’ve mentioned in my previous blog post, I’ve finally gotten hold of my free BlackBerry Playbook, so I started playing around with it. First impressions were quite good. Even my wife is interested in this device, which sounds great, but will probably mean I’ll have to kindly ask here to borrow it if I [...]
As you may already be aware of, Flex 4.5 is the next version of Flex that is also optimised for mobile development. That means that you can create compelling Rich Internet Applications with the Flex framework and deploy them on mobile Android devices, as well as the BlackBerry PlayBook (and iOS devices in the near [...]
In my book Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst; the new workflow I talk about different workflows for the different types of applications. These workflows are all good when creating a single application. But isn’t there something you could do for improving reusability of your design elements and collaborating more easily? First thing to do, and [...]
As a Flash/Flex developer, I was very dissappointed when I found out Flash and Flex can’t handle GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) files. Untill I came across Thibault Imbert’s work ! He wrote an easy to use GIF Player & Encoder class in ActionScript 3. We’ll be creating a Flex application that uses Thibault Imbert’s classes [...]
