Monitoring StyleManager progress when loading external assets: using the IEventDispatcher class

Tuesday, 18 November 2008 12:33 by shawny
When loading external stylesheets, often the stylesheet isn't finished loading by the time the application is ready to use it.  This causes some rather abrupt null reference errors that are quite annoying.  To head this problem off, I recommend monitoring the progress of the styleshe... [More]

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Flex Tag Cloud, XML, and External Stylesheets Loaded at Runtime

Tuesday, 18 November 2008 09:14 by shawny
I was doing a little work today and believe it or not, there aren't many posts online related to creating Flex Tag Clouds.  I found a couple with the most helpful being on Brian Glodde's Blog.  Brian's blog demonstrates a great way to handle your tags when you have a unsorted... [More]

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Flex Mafia site now active

Wednesday, 12 November 2008 10:47 by shawny
I created a small testing server at http://www.flexmafia.com to demo projects complete with source code.  Check it out.

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3D Tag Cloud using Papervision 3D, Vectorvision, and Flex

Wednesday, 12 November 2008 07:34 by shawny
I started thinking a few days ago about tag clouds that are commonly found on web pages and realized that, given the limited nature of screen real estate, eventually standard tag clouds will become concatenated.  The only other options to dropping tags with smaller entries is to continually d... [More]

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Mouse Aware 3D

Sunday, 9 November 2008 23:44 by shawny
While setting up my recent project for use with 3D, I wanted to have a way to have the 3D scene mouse aware.  This can be accomplished quite easily by adding the following lines of code to your onEnterFrame event listener. private function onEnterFrame(e:event):void {   &n... [More]

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VectorVision and Papervision 3D

Friday, 7 November 2008 07:48 by shawny
Over the past couple days, I have been working on a project that requires excellent quality text to be rendered within a Flex 3 project using Papervision 3D.  Papervision uses a bitmap based enigne which just doesn't provide high quality text.  Throughout my web travels this week, I ... [More]

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PV3D: setting up Papervision3D in Flex 3

Friday, 7 November 2008 00:56 by shawny
Setting up your Flex project to use Papervision 3D is actually quite simple.  There is only one minor difference between using PV3D in Flash and using it in Flex.  That difference comes from how you add your papervision objects to the stage.  In Flash, you can add papervision object... [More]

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Papervision 3D in Flex 3

Friday, 7 November 2008 00:51 by shawny
Over the past few days I have become extremely interested in utilizing Papervision 3D inside my Adobe Flex applications.  As the future of web 2.0 grows closer and rich internet applications become the "norm" of internet technology, it is clear that utilizing multiple dimensions is ... [More]

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The Morning After

Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:49 by shawny
After years of political campaigning, most of us have awoken this morning to what feels like a whole new world. Election 2008 is now a matter of history and the results were definitive.  We now have a new President-Elect and for the first time in American history, we have an African-Amer... [More]

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If the Democrats win: what then????

Tuesday, 4 November 2008 14:18 by shawny
So I'm sitting here, like many Americans, hinged on the outcome of the 2008 election.  After the last 8 years of incompetence, or rather architected misery, I'm wondering what it will take to ensure the prosperity of America.  From my limited perspective, the Republican Party is ... [More]

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