Flex 4 – Controlling a custom component’s skin states
December 28, 2011
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 [...]
Tonight I got one of the “coolest” emails you can get: I’ve been invited to give a session at gotoAndSki(); Switzerland on January 26th, 27th and 28th, 2012, which is really awesome. Unfortunately I haven’t been to this conference before, but I’ve heard very nice things about it and let’s face it, skiing during the [...]
As a longtime Flex developer I’ve always been used to having binding expressions to do one or more of the following things: Bind the value of one input field to a data model Bind the value from a data model to an input field or label Bind the value of one input field to a [...]
Creating a custom required RadioButtonGroup Validator class in Flex
July 13, 2011
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 [...]
