Tag Archive for Flex Builder

Using the AIR 1.5 updater framework in Flex

Steven / December 24, 2008 / 25 comments

I’ve been wanting to play with this for some time now, but I never got around to it … until today. Before AIR 1.5, you had to write a lot of code to be able to use an automatic update of your air application. That code included: · Present the user with an application update [...]

Category: AIR, Flex / Tags: AIR, ApplicationUpdater, Flex, Flex Builder, update framework

How to create your first application in Flex 4 using Flex Builder 3

Steven / July 28, 2008 / 3 comments

A couple of days ago, I wanted to try and make a Flex 4 project using Flex Builder 3. I anticipated some minor changes, but didn’t really know what trouble I was getting into. So, to save all of you from having the same problems, I wrote down how to get it right. First of [...]

Category: Flex / Tags: Flex 4, Flex Builder, Gumbo

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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 [...]

Do Flex and LiveCycle still have a future?

December 20, 2011

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 [...]

I’ll be speaking at gotoAndSki();

October 27, 2011

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 [...]

Using binding expressions in ColdFusion 9

September 6, 2011

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 [...]

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Tag Archive for Flex Builder

Using the AIR 1.5 updater framework in Flex

How to create your first application in Flex 4 using Flex Builder 3

Meanwhile, on the blog