YUI TabView with nested ASP.Net Repeater Control on Client Side

23. July 2010 09:42
According to the YUI docs and YUI Developer Pages, a YUI TabView control is able to create a tabview through existing HTML or "entirely through javascript."  After scouring the web in vain, I realized that there were no resources anywhere that addressed what happens when you need to... [More]

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Adobe Flex 4 TagCloud Layout with Multi-Line Tags from XML Data Provider

22. July 2010 09:10
Looking back at an older example of using Adobe Flex as a data bound Tag Cloud, I noticed that for any given height/width of the application if the child tag was too long for the container, the text would simply be truncated.  So I began to think about how to create a tag cloud whose child ta... [More]

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Collapsible Panel with .Net DataGrid. Overflow Property breaks DOM. Causes 'Spillage'

18. February 2010 16:35
So I've been looking at a recent problem and trying to come up with an elegant solution.  I'll need to give a little background.  I found a legacy component that had originally been coded using HTML 4.0 and seemed to work fine.  Recently, we migrated to the XHTML1.0 standard... [More]

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Dalvik VM Internals

13. December 2009 12:16

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Resize Flash via div on webpage

6. August 2009 08:48
This is a follow up to post http://flexadmiral.com/blog/post/2009/07/23/Using-Javascript-to-animate-a-resize-effect-for-a-div-containing-Adobe-Flex-Flash.aspx. In my earlier post, I used a javascript function to resize an html div in conjunction with resizing a flash/flex application.  M... [More]

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Creating a Custom Generic Flex Context Menu Component

27. July 2009 09:25
When you right-click in a flash/flex application, the built-in context menu appears allowing you to perform both custom and built-in actions.  There are a few menu items that will always remain, however, most can be removed.  The following image shows how your menu will appear once you h... [More]

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Flex Drag Drop: Cloned Data

22. June 2009 08:06
So I worked on a project recently that required drag/drop support for list based components, however, some custom porcessing was required when the item was dropped into the new list that would make my life easier when  the time came to save the data back to the database.  My data provide... [More]

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Flex itemRenderer: using "outerDocument"

2. June 2009 17:50
I discovered a neat little trick today on the topic of inline item renderers for Flex components.  Let's say you have a property that you need to access, but that property is not part of the data object that is passed to the renderer.  Something like this: <?xml... [More]

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Heat Maps: Open Source Courtesy of Michael VanDaniker

22. April 2009 12:34
Came upon this fantastic demo and source code today from Michael VanDaniker.  Over the past few months, ever since Universal Mind launched their Spatial Key application, I have become fascinated with heat maps within Flex applications.   I have been able to find some pretty decent demo&#... [More]

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Flex Chart: Column Chart with Multiple Column Item Trend Line

7. April 2009 09:48
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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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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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Birdeye RaVis Modification: Adding zoom on MouseWheel

26. January 2009 13:14
Using the BirdEyeZoom tool is cool, however I hate having to click buttons so I modified the BirdEyeZoom component this morning to add functionality for zooming on an external mousewheel event.  I also noticed that when the scale of the graph is at the minimum or maximum, any further reductio... [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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