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Inverse masking disclosed

Tweet Recently I have used inverse mask in my project – a mask that hides everything beneath it, keeping everything outside visible. I knew there is no direct support for inverse masking in Flash, but such effect can be achieved by using blend modes. To my surprise when you google the term “flash inverse mask” [...]

DragManager.doDrag problems

I have found 2 issues with DragManager.doDrag. One of the problem is just on Mac and second one is “not really problem”, but strange behavior between web version and AIR version. I really can’t find answers for this problems, so I’m trying to get answers from you. I hope anyone has workaround for me

Flex Styling & Skinning Presentation for Slovak FUG

Today I will have presentation about Flex Styling & Skinning for slovak Flex User Group called Flexgarden. If there are really cool skinned or styled application on web, or something other really cool I can show to slovak flex coders, please let me know. Presentation will be today at 7pm CET. Sure I’m aware of sites like scalenine.com, fillcolors.com and similar

Fastest way of closing AIR application

In my appliaction, The code: “application.close();” is used to exit
the application. And I found, no. of ways are there to exit the application. Let me
know, which one is best , should allow the grace full exit and should faster.

No. of ways to Exit in Flex:

1. NativeApplication.nativeApplication.exit();
2. Application.application.exit();
3. application.close();
4. exit();

And please advise, any other option is there to exit the application.

AS3 Conditional Breakpoint – enterDebugger()

I have to confess I didn’t know about great function enterDebugger() in flash.debugger package. If you ever want to have conditional breakpoint you can do it programatically. Just add this statement to you code and debuger will stop as it there would be normal breakpoint. So you can use it in IF statement and call it just when some conditions are met. I think I will use this function a lot from now on

Win Adobe CS4 Web Premium and Flex Builder Pro 3

You can have time just till tommorow so act fast (I’ve found out just today from Sitepoint.com newsletter). There is easy way how to include you into draw. Just read this article on Sitepoint.com: Ajaxify Your Flex Application and take this quiz.

Crop whitespace from PNG image

Yesterday, I’ve posted about interesting AS3 Class InteractivePNG, and now I’m adding new addition for solving other problem with transparent Bitmaps. If you have transparent bitmap with whitespace around image and you want to crop whitespace around “real” image, you can use this function…

InteractivePNG – useful AS3 class

I working on some game editors for my old game engine (not finished) to show people something what I have and let people convince me maybe to continue (fallenswordsgame.com) and there are lot of PNG assets. If I got on stage many PNG images there is problem with selection of correct one, because in AS3 there are MouseEvent events even on transparent pixels and that’s problem. I have tried search if someone did great job on some workaround and I have found really great AS3 class called InteractivePNG.

FireScope – HTML and CSS Reference for Firebug

SitePoint.com has released FireScope, which is HTML and CSS Reference fo Firebug, so now Firebug is even more powerful with inline help.

FlexSkinning: Skinning and Styling of Flex Components

Tweet This is start of new serie on my blog Franto.com. In latest Flex and AIR projects I’ve used lot of custom skinning and styling of original and custom Flex components and I’ve found it very easy. But also there are some curious exceptions and other stuff I like to share with you in this [...]