Is Microsoft Silverlight a threat to Flex? Article and Response

Tuesday, 30 December 2008 05:10 by shawny
http://www.a1technology.com/blog/2008/12/is-microsoft-silverlight-threat-to-flex.html   Interesting post.  Not trying to start an RIA Platform war or anything, but I would like to ring in on this topic. I tend to be a little more skeptical regarding Microsoft Silverlight th... [More]

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Filtering unique values in a Flex Chart

Friday, 19 December 2008 13:59 by shawny
Continuing my discussion on filtering, I would like to talk about complex Flex Chart filtering/grouping at runtime.  Now the majority of ASDoc docmentation, and other examples do a great job of demonstrating the filtering of chart series wheneach series is based on a different value in the ar... [More]

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Filtering a Basic Collection in Flex

Thursday, 18 December 2008 09:36 by shawny
There are a couple interesting things to note about Flex filtering that I have learned over the past few days. Let's say, for example, you have something like this: private var myColl:ArrayCollection = new ArrayCollection([ {id:1, color:"Red", shape:"Circle", siz... [More]

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Grouping Flex Chart Data

Monday, 1 December 2008 14:20 by shawny
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

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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