My List: Actionscript 3.0 Open Source Libraries

19. April 2009 21:05
This is a list of Actionscript 3.0 libraries available on Google code and other open source sites.  All of these utilize Subversion for source control.  If you aren't familiar with Subversion, visit the SVN website  This list is by no mean complete but it does represent a good m... [More]

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Bug: Flex Web Service and .Net: Nullable Number Parameters

7. April 2009 15:14
Ran across another instance of the dreaded Error 2032: Stream error today and upon tracing I discovered the cause.  I'm consuming a web service that gets passed a criteria object consisting of numbers, booleans, and strings, however, all values are optional and on the .Net side are nu... [More]

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Code Integrated into Bird Eye

1. April 2009 12:01
I received a nice email yesterday from Daniel at Bird Eye regarding a post I had made a couple months ago regarding the mouse wheel functionality in the BirdEyeZoom.mxml component.  He informed me that my code was going to be imported into the Bird Eye project.  :)  Coolness!  ... [More]

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Accessing the index of an item within a repeater: Use repeaterIndex on the radiobuttonGroup.selection object

18. March 2009 09:23
After much chagrin, I finally discovered the solution to a problem I was having last night.  Here's the scenario, I have a data set that is being returned in deeply nested XML and from that set I am wanting to create several groups of radiobuttons that will act as filters for an e4x expre... [More]

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Binding e4x to dataProvider

18. March 2009 08:54
Let's say you have a set of redio buttons that act to filter your data collection.  It is possible to bind the dataProvider property of Flex Charts and AdvancedDataGrid controls to an e4x value.  There are still a couple little glitches working this way that I haven't quite figur... [More]

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Rest Parameter: Pass any number of values, its easy as ...

28. January 2009 21:59
I was doing a bit of reading tonight and happened upon a piece of info that was totally new to me.  After being in the flash/flex arena for a few years now, I've become quite comfortable with functions and passing arguments, but, as they say, it's never too late to learn something new... [More]

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Flex Help For New Devs: Careful Creation of Components

21. January 2009 08:51
When developing Flex or AIR Applications, one of the most common activities is to make data interactive and allow the user to interact with the data in interesting ways.  To this end, I often find myself making use of web services, HTTPServices, etc.  rather than hard-coding data into my... [More]

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Grouping Flex Chart Data

1. December 2008 23:20
After spending several days bashing my head against the Flex Charting SDK trying to figure out an easy way to group similar items together in a ColumnChart, I finally had to break down tonight and do it the old fashioned way. I received several ideas on how to approach the problem from the Fl... [More]

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

18. November 2008 21:33
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

18. November 2008 18:14
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

12. November 2008 19:47
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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Mouse Aware 3D

10. November 2008 08:44
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VectorVision and Papervision 3D

7. November 2008 16:48
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

7. November 2008 09:56
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Papervision 3D in Flex 3

7. November 2008 09:51
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