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 ...

Sometimes in Flex projects you need to be able to include some licensing policy. In a lot of cases this will be a simple user identification for registered users. But sometimes there is a request for a floating license policy. This means that a certain company buys let's say 10 ...

If you are using view states and want to apply certain transitions between these states, there are some things to keep in mind. When adding components to a state, the transition effects (also called behaviors) are applied to that component while adding it. So this means that the effects will ...

Hey everyone, I've just found out that the first beta version of both Flash Builder 4 and Flash Catalyst are available on labs.adobe.com. Flash Builder has some very useful inprovements, like source refactoring, framework package explorer, ... The Flash Catalyst version is somewhat different from the version that was ...

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. ...

Until recently, I thought a .wav file was for uncompressed digital audio data on windows, while .mp3 file would be the compressed version of the audio clip.  That was probably too simple to be true!! The first time I used Adobe Audition to export a mixdown of a multitrack session, an ...

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 ...

Adobe Audition is an amazing piece of software.  It provides an impressive toolset for recording, editing and mixing audio. Besides my work at multimediacollege as a certified instructor on Coldfusion and Dreamweaver, I'm also sound engineer and, as such, I spend most of my free-time on adobe audition recording and mixig ...

You know, the Flex SDK is a pretty nice collection of visual component for quickly creating a rich internet application. But in the past couple of years that I’ve developed in Flex, I came across the ...

A few days ago, Adobe asked me to speak on a workshop about the integration between ColdFusion 8 and Flex. As a ColdFusion developer, the ColdFusion part was not a problem, but I was a bit afraid by the Flex part, since I've never used Flex or flex builder before.  I ...